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Monthly Newsletter - December 2014
From the Team Leader's Table
It is another Christmas time and with the joy of this season I am Welcoming you to the first edition of our newsletter 'LEED-Nigeria'slate' through which we are going to be keeping you updated and infomed on our programmes and activities on Monthly basis.
We are very grateful to all our friends, partners and well-wishers who are encouraging us in one way or the other, especially during the time that we launched our 'call for application' for Literacy Fellowship. The Month of November was a busy one and we are so much excited that, despite the short time of launching the application, hundreds of amazing young people signified interest in serving as volunteer facilitators in our literacy programmes. We now have about 30 energetic, resourceful and forward-thinking young people serving as 'Literacy Fellows' with us and with this wonderful development, we can reach out to as many communities as possible through our basic and functional literacy programmes geared towards socio-economic and sustainable development. You will get to meet them (Literacy Fellows) one by one in the subsequent bulletins.
Shortly after their inauguration in the Month of November, the newest 'Literacy Fellows' converged at the Oyo State office of the Agency for Adult and Non-formal Education (OYO AANFE) to discuss the progress of Adult Literacy Programmes in the State and the possible ways LEED-Nigeria can assist the State Government in her campaign against illiteracy. We bring you a brief report on this and our team members who are working round the clock to ensure the smooth deliveries of our programmes.
Enjoy this maiden edition and we would be glad to receive your comments and feedback on our programmes and operations via info@leednigeria.org
As the year 2014 is folding up, I hope you will all have time to pause for moments of quiet reflection on things done and undone, and prepare better for the new year. Have yourself a very merry Christmas. Count your blessings and be thankful.
Sincerely
Sunday Olawale Olaniran
Founder & Team Leader
Some Facts about literacy & illiteracy
- 775.4 million of the world’s adults lack basic literacy skills.
- 122.2 million of the world’s youth population are illiterate
- Nearly two thirds of the world’s illiterate adults are women
- The lowest literacy rates are observed in Sub-Saharan Africa and South and West Asia.
- Nigeria is among the 10 countries with the highest rate of illiteracy in the world
- 64 Millions Nigerians are presently without reading, writing and numeracy skills.
- A child born to a literate mother is 50% more likely to survive past the age of 5 years
- Individuals demonstrating higher levels of literacy were more likely to be employed, work more weeks in a year, and earn higher wages than individuals demonstrating lower proficiencies
- People with limited health literacy often lack knowledge or have misinformation about the body as well as the nature and causes of disease
- Low literacy has been linked to poor health outcomes such as higher rates of hospitalization and less frequent use of preventive services
- No country has ever achieved continuous and rapid economic growth without having at least 40% of its adult population literate
(Sources: World Literacy Foundation, UNESCO Global Monitoring Reports, International Literacy Day 2014)
ABOUT US
The alarming rate of illiteracy in Nigeria (which is currently put at 45% by the current EFA Global Monitoring Report) spurred us into action to introduce Literacy Fellowship aimed at encouraging and mobilizing young people in Nigeria, especially those in the institutions of higher learning, to volunteer to serve as facilitators in various literacy centres operated by State and Local Government Authorities where resources to organize Adult Literacy Programmes are inadequate. We ask our Fellows to volunteer two hours of their spare times on weekly basis while we hope to link them with resources and programmes that can boost their capacities and better prepare them for their present and future endeavours.
Apart from the collaborations with the State and LGAs, We also work directly with religious bodies, CDAs and CBOs in organizing and monitoring literacy programmes that can make people to be responsible and responsive to societal needs. Our literacy programmes includes Basic Literacy (reading, writing and numeracy), Agricultural Literacy (for rural farmers and unemployed youths), Health and Hygiene Literacy, Environmental/Ecological Literacy, Information Literacy, Vocational Literacy, Computer Literacy, and Financial Literacy, among others.
OUR MISSION
We exist primarily to support, create and monitor literacy and educational programmes that directly improve the lives of young people and adults in Nigeria. We believe in the power of basic and functional literacy in achieving sustainable development.
OUR VISION
We work towards building a literate society that is fit for the 21st Century knowledge economy
OUR SLOGAN
Every literate person is a champion over poverty.
Tit-bits of our Recent Involvements & Collaborations
Project Social Impact Summer Institute
Kwikbook Young Readers Conference
African Young Leaders Summit
OUR COLLABORATION WITH OYO-AANFE
MEET OUR TEAM
Bukayo Emmanuel Oyetunde, Programme Director
Phone: +234 7033878233
Facebook: www.facebook.com/bukayo.oyetunde
Titilope Abiodun Oni, Director of Monitoring & Evaluation
Phone: +234 8062432523
Facebook: www.facebook.com/Titilopeonny
Ayoola Falola, Director of Communication & Information Technology
Phone: +234 8162081195
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ayoola.com.ng
Sunday Olawale Olaniran, Team Leader
Phone: +234 7033955770
Facebook: www.facebook.com/olawale.o.sunday
Contact us
Email: info@leednigeria.org
Website: www.leednigeria.org
Location: No. 4, Ashi-Bodija Rd., New Bodija, Ibadan Nigeria
Phone: +234 7013567616
Facebook: www.facebook.com/LEEDNigeria
Twitter: @LEEDNigeria
Ponder on this!
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Our mentors, friends, supporters and well-wishers. We say a very big THANK YOU for being our sources of inspiration and encouragements in 2014 - Mr. & Mrs. Hakeem & Elizabeth Lawal, Alh. F.A.S. Oloyede, Dr. Omobola Adeloore, Dr. Chris. O. Omoregie, Dr. Abidoye Sarumi, Dr. Olumide Olajide, Dr. Kester Ojokheta, Dr. Kehinde Kester, Dr. Moshood Hassan, Dr. Francis Olaniyi, Dr. Stephen Aroge, Dr. Kunle Olatumile, Pastor Mrs. Olayinka Kotila, Alejandra Zambrano, Renee Contreras, Blanca Vivancos, Natacha Poggio, Pilar Eguez Guevara, Ivan Moraes Filho, Pat, Dan &Courtland Harlow, Anna Valeria Zuccolotto, Joy Maysonnet, Roxanne Kristalli, Mariah Steele, Marquis Cabrera, Alexandra Pinschmidt, Lisette Reyes-Paulino (special thanks for smore, Lisette), Carlos Rodriguez, Laura Tejero, Jeannyfer Campos, Laura Silvan Rodan, Kristell Benavides, Sherif Kenku, John Abaka, Jennifer Jeanne, Rachel Stone, Nicole Coumes, Tammy Kremer, Jairo Campos, Lauren Elizabeth, Anne Helbo Pedersen, Emmeritus Professor Michael Omolewa, Olabisi Ibiloye, Kehinde Olumuyiwa, Oluwatoyin Enitan Mene, Dotun Adesua, Ojo Samuel Dunsin, Akindele Remilekun, Kehinde Oladepo, Olusola Ajibade, Kolawole Oke, Aladejare Abimbola, Kolawole Ladoke, Tunde Akinloye, Sunday Taiwo Amos, Michael 'Kunle Alabi, Taiwo Adedewe, Sara Potler LaHayne, Pastor Femi Owootomo, Oluwatoyin Enitan Mene, Abimbola Aladejare, Louis Adekola, Tosin Taiwo, Kehinde Olufemi, Demilade Oluwasina, Ebenezer Akinrinade, Teslim Oloyede, Pastors Kola & Funke Olaoye, Obinna Echendu, Pastor Tayo Adare, Dr. Morakinyo Olumodimu, Pastor Gbenga Kotila, Pastor & Mrs. Segun Olaitan & Others too numerous to mention.
Let's do it again in 2015. Peace!