Impact Driven Initiative for Sustainable Development (IDISD)

MULTITUDE OF STUDENTS FROM PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS BENEFITED FROM IDISD FREE SUMMER LESSON Students writing exams    Students listening to lecture On Saturday, 7 th September, 2019, Impact Driven Initiative for Sustainable Development (IDISD) free summer lesson came to an end with award and prize giving ceremony for students and volunteers. The Lesson which commenced on 5 th August, 2019 engaged about one hundred (100) students from fifteen (15) different schools in Kwara state and one (1) school from Kebbi State. The president of the BOT, Dr. Oladele Salaudeen Hanafi, ably represented by the Executive Director of IDISD, Mr. Olanrewaju Rabiu Hanafi delivered the opening remark. Dr. Hanafi explained that the organization decided to hold the free summer lesson in order to help the student in preparing for future exams and the future in general.  He said the programme did not only focus on academic development of the student but included sports and other...

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...