GSK INITIATIVE PRESENT EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT MATERIALS AND HYGIENE PRODUCTS TO HER OVC BENEFICIARIES.

 

Meaning is made in conversation, reality is created in communication and knowledge is generated through social interaction....  Language is the vehicle through which we create our understanding of the world." Diana Whitney

GLOBAL SUPPORT FOR KIDS INITIATIVE Team in their various location had interactive session with the street connected children about their mental health as the staff talk to them on  the negative effect when it is been  ignored and also the  importance of having good mental health.

Also, this week, we create atmosphere to inculcate educational values through literacy class with subject like Mathematics, English Language and General Studies to street children, which help these street connected children to know their rights and also  be able to  express their mind where ever they find themselves.

According to Zig Ziglar ''If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you but If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.''

As part of our activities this week, GSK Initiative Team visited her OVC beneficiaries in their various schools to present educational support materials and also pay their tuition fees for the term and her OVC beneficiaries who are learning a vocation was not left behind also, as the staff ensures that they provide everything possible to make their apprenticeship  period a  relief one for them, as foodstuffs and hygiene product were given to them.

Activities for the week was wrapped up with the staff engaging in community awareness about the situation of street connected children in our society and also sensitizing member of their community  on Child Abuse and neglect and child labour.

        

       

GLOBAL SUPPORT FOR KIDS INITIATIVE TEAM SENSITIZE HER COMMUNITIES AND ALSO THE STREET CONNECTED CHILDREN .

 

GLOBAL SUPPORT FOR KIDS INITIATIVE Team step out to accomplish their tasks with the street connected children on the field and also sensitizes their communities for the week.

The staff arrived their respective location this week to  carry out their field activities with the street connected children. Activities for the week was  interactive session and community sensitization, in which the staff engage the community by sensitizing its members about  what we are doing as an organization to help and curb the rate at which vulnerable children are been abused and neglected. The staff  implore them to support our movement in  their little way by playing a good parental role in the lives of their children. 

During interactive session with the street children, we were able to know some of the challenges these children are facing  presently, in which  the staff advised them and also encourage them to always be free to discuss any issues bothering  them . Also the staff  enlighten the street children on  safety  and not to allow themselves to be use for violence ,since the governorship election is around the corner in the state. After our discussion with them, they promised the staff that they will  yield to every  advised given to them.

Also GSK Initiative team engage her communities by sensitizing the people through creating public awareness  about street  children in our society and also on Child Abuse, Child Labour and Child Neglect. Telling them what the Organization stand for. The staff shared flyers out to the passers-by, traders, shop owner, bike riders and taxi drivers as they were not left out because majority of them are parents or caregivers. The staff took their time to communicate in native language (Yoruba)  for those who don't understand English language.

During the public outreach, most of the targeted audience asked questions in the course of interaction with them and the staff took their time to explain and provide an answer to the questions in a simple and clear manner.

At the end of our engagement with the community, majority of our audiences commend our  effort in services to humanities.