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“As the saying goes: if you don’t know what you stand for, you will fall for anything”.  Mentorship is a one-to-one relationship between the Mentor and the Mentee which often requires a lot of skills and experiences that can trigger meaningful growth and development. During the 3-Day Training of Trainers […]

The mapping of schools took place for two weeks, during which our team conducted visits across various communities. The primary objective was to identify the local government areas and assess the unique challenges in each terrain. Additionally, we aimed to locate the actual positions of public secondary schools where the […]

In the month of October, the project team was able to engage with the selected students -“One-mind Champions”, as they prefer to be called, of the ADOKIT Programme. The sessions were held at least twice every week and by this, the first two phases of the intervention which are structured […]

SCHOOL SESSIONS As the programme begins to wind down on all activities, the TMP sessions at the various schools were held with high energy and speed as the respective Mentors increased their pace in a bid to cover the 20-Modules sessions alongside other planned actions before the current term is […]

The month of October saw an increase in students’ participation in knowledge transfer through peer-to-peer activities on the modules they have learned from the Leadership and Community Development Programme. This was done through sensitizations on assembly venues and during social activities and club meetings of the various schools across the […]

“Being privileged to hear directly from well-experienced people from different fields and backgrounds share their stories and advice on the challenges they faced and how they overcame them. Also, getting to meet and speak with people that I would perhaps never get to meet on my own or that would […]

The Bridge Leadership Foundation’s October edition of the Leadership Advocacy Programme Radio Talk Show was centered on the theme “MEASURING THE PULSE OF CIVIC PARTICIPATION: HOW CAN NIGERIANS BE INVOLVED?” and our guest on the show was Bernice Abeku (EPLF 2022 Fellow and Technical assistant to the Executive Chairman, Kaduna […]

As part of the fellow’s civic engagement activity during the fellowship, they started a Green Circle Conversation which seeks to deliberate on key critical issues in Nigerian politics and make recommendations on possible solutions. The first conversation was in August which took place on Twitter Space with fellows such as […]

A round of school fees payment for 2021 Bridge Scholarship beneficiaries was conducted for students in Abi, Yakurr, Biase, Akamkpa, Calabar South and municipal Local Government Areas of Cross River State. During the above activity, the parents and principals of the beneficiaries were reached via phone calls to ascertain the […]

UNICEF, in partnership with the University of Calabar (UNICAL) and Cross River State Action Committee on AIDS (CRSACA), put out the Adolescent Kits for Expression and Innovation Training with the sole aim of upskilling and collaborating with, Adolescent-focused organizations to implement the ADOKIT Programme in their coverage communities. The 4-day […]

TMP mentors’ quarterly review meeting was held on Thursday, September 8, 2022, via Zoom. The meeting was aimed at achieving three key objectives which include, measuring the number of sessions already conducted by each Mentor against the number of TMP Module facilitated, implementation of Mentees’ respective Leadership projects and the […]

It was exciting to have the programme activities continue at the respective schools’ premises where a greater percentage of attendance is often recorded, compared to the holiday sessions where parents/guardians had peculiar reasons why their children/wards cannot attend. Engagements with the Mentees commenced from the second week of resumption starting […]

The month of September started on a learning note for our fellows who are constantly gaining immense value from the critical knowledge derived from all the various modules and the introduction of a new such as; Running for Office and we introduced a new module on election management. The various […]

As schools resume new academic sessions in Cross River state, Our Leadership and Community Development Programme is back and better across 15 public secondary schools in 5 LGAs. Spotlight is on: MBEMBE COMPREHENSIVE SECONDARY SCHOOL OGADA II OBUBRA which began its sessions on Thursday 22/09/2022 while discussing the topic: VALUES […]