The Goal event of the Youth Empowerment Project (YEP) held a quiz, graduation and media forum for students from public schools in Ibadan, last week as part of activities to mark the end of the project for the year 2024.
The Goal project is part of efforts by YEP to empower young people through programming and mobilisation in its key areas of interventions; education, child protection, health, secure livelihood, W.A.S.H, sports for development, financial literacy, and human rights with strategic partnership.
The event, a three-in-one programme; quiz competition, media forum and graduation ceremony had in attendance secondary schoolgirls in Ibadan.
The Goal project is a reproductive health, HIV/AIDS prevention, life skills, football and martial arts capacity-building project among young people in selected secondary schools, which started in 2010 and it is being implemented in Lagos, Ibadan and Abuja FCT by the YEF, a youth-focused non-governmental and not-for-profit organisation, that has trained over 100,000 young girls on gender-based violence, life skills and human rights in since 2010 and has worked extensively in Ibadan for over 14 years.
The event had 22 representatives; 10 Goal girls, 10 non-goal girls, principal and contact.
Person as well as government representatives; Mr. Boluwatife Ogunlolu for Ministry of Health, Mr. Obatowon George B. for Ministry of Education, Mrs Oyekola Idowu, Mrs Daniel Oluwatoyin from CPN.
There was a drama presentation by St. Anne’s school with the Goal Girls demonstrating abstinence as the only way out from drug abuse, STIs, and alcohol. The quiz competition questions were divided into three sessions (objectives questions, theoretical questions and current affairs).
St. Louis Girls Grammar School, Mokola won the competition having scored 17 points ahead of Queen of Apostle, Oluyoro with 16 points and Our Lady of Apostle, Odo-Ona with 13 points respectively.
The Goal Program is a programme YEP had been having in public secondary schools for over 12 years to teach students life skills, leadership, financial literacy, hygiene and health for a period of about one year during which they go through four modules; be yourself, be money savvy, be healthy and enlightenment on their rights.
The main purpose of the quiz competition is for the girls to meet themselves, interact with other girls from other schools going through the goal program and share lessons and we also use the quiz competition to have an idea of what they have learnt during the program.
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