The Children Academic and Vocational Support Initiative has marked a significant milestone as it celebrated two decades of dedicated service to underprivileged children, providing them with essential life skills and opportunities for holistic development.
Ariori, formerly a businessman turned social worker, recounted the pivotal moment when his family’s relocation to Sango-Ota twenty years ago exposed him to the educational disparities faced by local children. He said: “The foundation started as a family thing, we moved into Sango 20 years ago and we noticed some children don’t have shoes to go to school, they don’t carry school bags. But of course I’ve always loved children but when we moved here, I realised that this is so different from Lagos, and immediately we started. Initially, we started with a dance competition, crack jokes, and then they are rewarded with school materials.
“The foundation has grown over the years that we have children from over 50 schools participating. And then it’s growing by the year and we’re also improving and changing our strategies to make sure that it’s not just one thing every time so we are very informal in our approach and most of what we do is done on the street because we believe that children should not be limited by the classroom. So we are saying don’t let the classroom be your world. Let the world be your classroom,” he said.
He emphasized the transformative impact of collective action in uplifting marginalized youths and calls for greater collaboration to address systemic barriers to education.
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