Impact Driven Initiative for Sustainable Development (IDISD)

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...

IDISD CELEBRATES 2019 INTERNATIONAL YOUTH DAY WITH FOCUS ON QUALITY EDUCATION FOR ALL “The foundation of every state is the education of its youth” -Diogenes The theme of International Youth Day 2019,  “Transforming education” , highlights efforts to make education more relevant, equitable and inclusive for all youth, including efforts by youth themselves. (See https://www.un.org/development/desa/youth/news/2019/04/iyd-2/ ) IDISD BOT with teachers-volunteers and some students of the Summer Lesson Programme at the Pakata LGEA school, Ilorin, Kwara State. The role of education in any society cannot be overemphasized. Kwara state as one of the fastest-growing states in the northern Nigeria needs to specially focus on the quality of its education especially at Primary and Secondary school levels. This important task cannot be left in the hands of the state government alone as other stakeholders like Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO), companies, individuals, among...