Impact Driven Initiative for Sustainable Development (IDISD)

ABDULQADIR DEFEATED THREE OTHER FINALISTS TO WIN TOBA ADEYEYE SCRABBLE CHAMPIONSHIP Jeff is the annoying kind of Scrabble player who plays a lot of obscure two-letter words that shouldn't count but for whatever reason are considered legitimate. My father is the annoying kind of Scrabble player who takes hours with his turn and then plays deliberately misspelled words that no one has the heart to call him out on .  Bennett Madison The final match Fourteen students made up of six males and eight females from eleven schools in Kwara state qualified for the Scrabble championship after winning a spelling-bee challenge among the students that participated in IDISD Summer Lesson programme. The championship which was played at Pakata LGEA School, Ilorin ended on the 8 th of September, 2019 after the final match and prize presentation. The unique part of this competition was that the students were seeing scrabble for the first time. It was after they got se...

CLIMATE CHANGE: A PHENOMENON OF YESTERDAY, TODAY OR TOMORROW?  “Human activity currently releases over 30 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year”   Such a surprising data we have there! However, what is more surprising is that most people in Africa do not know this fact. Is it not most surprising that even though most Nigerian secondary school students know what climate is, 99% of them do not know about climate change? On the 29 th of August, 2019 one of our team members at Impact Driven Initiative for Sustainable Development (IDISD), Miss Muheenat Sheu took the students through the journey of learning about Climate Change. She introduced the course by asking questions on what climate is and what climate change is, among others. Could you believe that none of the students had ever heard of climate change or UN (United Nations)! Miss Muheenat explained what caused climate change in the ancient times and what causes it in our present...

TOP KWARAN ENTREPRENEUR TAUGHT ENTREPRENEURSHIP TO IDISD SUMMER LESSON STUDENTS “Entrepreneurship is the cornerstone to African development and the key to local value creation” –Tony Elumelu Mr. Toba Adeyeye giving entrepreneurship talk If Nigeria will produce great entrepreneurs in future and continue the trend of the present stride in improving Nigeria’s economy, we need to start stepping down entrepreneurship development to young people in secondary and primary schools. We need to diversify educational development programmes to encouraging positive attitude and acquisition of skills, rather than just focusing on academics only. One of such ways that IDISD (Impact Driven Initiative for Sustainable Development) is innovating educational development is by inviting professionals to impart skills into our summer lesson students and introducing intellectual games into the programme. It was a great Friday for our students when they got to meet Mr. Toba Adeyeye, founde...