Yellowhaven Foundation...nurturing the whole child
With the recent
increase in the spate of terrorist and insurgency activities across Northern
Nigeria, more people are now actively advocating for an increase in education
standards and infrastructure across Nigeria especially in the Northern region.
A group of dedicated and passionate Nigerians have risen up to answer this call
with an innovative idea called the Inspire Young Authors Program.
The Inspire-young-authors
program (IYA) was created by the YellowHaven Foundation to promote literacy among
young Nigerians in order to improve reading skills and also to pursue careers
in the literary world. It additionally serves as an introductory program to
prepare participants for the Yellowhaven Bookclub program.
A one-day program, IYA
is targeted at young people between the ages of 13-22 years in schools and
orphanages and comprises of book-reading sessions, Creative writing tests and
poem/short stories sessions. In 2014, the program has been hosted successfully
in 3 locations across Niger state. IYA encourages young students to recognize
that reading can be a fun and entertaining exercise which goes far beyond studying
to pass examinations.
The program helped participants
to understand their individual strengths and weaknesses with most of them expressing
ardent desires at the end of the program to improve their reading and
comprehension skills through the support of IYA and other such programs.
Quite noticeably, most
of the participants could not spell or pronounce simple words with some
students in senior classes unable read fluently and construct good sentences in
English. The organizers of IYA are determined to overcome this barrier in the
education system in order to help these students do better in National examinations
and job interviews?
Although, IYA is a
one-day program, the organizers plan to continue working with the teenagers through
the YELLOWHAVEN BOOKCLUB, a weekly program that will require the collective
effort of teachers and Yellowhaven tutors to effectively tackle the menace of
illiteracy which remains a prominent problem in Northern Nigeria, and also to
further inspire them to pursue careers in writing.
Yellowhaven
Foundation is a non-governmental organization founded in 2013 to develop young
leaders and entrepreneurs in Nigeria by providing consistent and effective
solutions in the areas of Health, Literacy and Entrepreneurship.
To be a part of this
noble project, CONTACT THE ORGANIZERS VIA EMAIL
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