Webs of Support Nigeria
Children's Rights & Integrative Youth Development™
Children's Rights & Integrative Youth Development™
By Modupe Gbadeyanka
The federal and state governments have been urged to adopt the Integrative Youth Development (IYD) Web of Support Programme designed to address social and emotional disconnection among children and parents.
IYD, at a training held last Friday in Lagos, explained that the initiative is to promote those factors that will assist a child grow without being socially or emotionally disconnected.
The IYD Web of Support Programme chief and Lead Facilitator of the programme, Mr Paul Philip Iwok, informed the participants that Nigerian children and the youthful population, in particular, need a web of support education, awareness and enlightenment to help address their social and emotional disconnections.
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As part of activities lined up to commemorate this year’s International Women’s Day, a foremost Non-Governmental Organization in Nigeria, the Integrative Youth Development (IYD) Web of Support Program, at weekend organized a training programme on integrative Youth Development Web of Support metrics for students in Lagos Nigeria, to inculcate among participants memorable and measurable acumen needed for weaving a meaningful living.
The Integrative Youth Development (IYD) Web of Support Professional Trainers, are the certified trainers in Nigeria from the United States of America based Institute For Community And Adolescents Resiliency-Unifying Solutions (ICAR-US), the training arm of the Agora College USA.
Speaking at the training held at Harrobs International Secondary School, Alapere Ketu, Lagos that had a good number of students and teachers drawn from within and outside the school.
Amb Paul Philip Iwok, the IYD Web of Support Program Boss and Lead Facilitator of the programme, told participants that Nigerian children and the youthful population, in particular, need a web of support education, awareness and enlightenment to help address their social and emotional disconnections.
IWD: IYD trains Lagos students on integrative youth development web of support framework
March 11, 2024 Editor 3 NEWS 0
As part of activities lined up to commemorate this year’s International Women’s Day (IWD), a foremost Non-Governmental Organization in Nigeria, the Integrative Youth Development (IYD) Web of Support Program, on Friday organized a training programme on integrative Youth Development web of support metrics for students in Lagos Nigeria, with a view to inculcating among participants memorable and measurable acumen needed for weaving a meaningful living.
The Integrative Youth Development (IYD) Web of Support Professional Trainers, are the certified trainers in Nigeria from the United States of American based Institute For Community And Adolescents Resiliency-Unifying Solutions (ICAR-US), the training arm of the Agora College USA.
Speaking at the training held at Harrobs International Secondary School, Alapere Ketu, Lagos and had a good number of students and teachers drawn from within and outside the school.
Amb Paul Philip Iwok, The IYD Web of Support Program Boss and Lead Facilitator of the programme, told participants that Nigerian children and the youthful population in particular needs a web of support education, awareness and enlightenment to help address their social and emotional disconnections.
Giving insight to how the initiative originated, Iwok, who doubles the Country Focal Person, the Agora College, traced the origin of the web of support education to Alaska, United States of America, where the lives of young adults were transformed through the program model. This, according to Iwok, compelled the government of the United States to adopt the program concept in Schools which was later replicated in Canada and other countries. He mentioned that, the program was inaugurated in Nigeria in July 2019 by an American International Educator, Kathrine Thomson-Stone.
USA Alumni Association Congratulates Akpabio on His Emergence As Senate President
The Alumni Association of United States ……Assures Nigerians That He Will Deliver in His New Position.
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The Alumni Association of United States of America based Institute For Community And Adolescents Resiliency-Unifying Solutions (ICAR-US), the training arm of the Agora College USA has congratulated the former Governor of Akwa-Ibom state, Senator Godswill Akpabio on his electoral victory as the Senator representing Ikot-Ekpene Senatorial District and his recent emergence as the Senate President of the nation’s 10th National Assembly, describing him as the best man for the job who will ensure a rancor-free relationship between the lawmakers and the Executive arm of government.
This was contained in a statement issued by the Nigerian Chapter of the Group, dated Saturday July 1, 2023, signed by its Country Focal Person, Amb Paul Philip Iwok, and made available to journalists in Lagos, Nigeria. According to the group, the emergence of Senator Godswill Akpabio as the President of the nation’s 10th National Assembly is the best thing that has ever happened in the anal of the Nigeria’s National Assembly right from independence till date.
‘We make bold to say this because as a responsible and responsive organization, we are aware that leadership is everything, everything rise and falls on leadership just as no society or nation will rise above its leaders. ‘luckily for the nation, Senator Akpabio is capped with excellent public leadership acumen needed to navigate the nation out of its current political and socio-economic woods’.
Giving further insight as to why the Group threw its weight behind Akpabio, Amb Iwok stressed that as a two term Governor of Akwa Ibom state, His Excellency, Senator Akpabio brought to the state a democratized infrastructural development that glaringly qualified as world class, sustainable and enduring.
He also stated that as the Minister of the Niger Delta Ministry, Akpabio demonstrated that he possessed full grasp of public leadership demands. He sanitized the Ministry, brought transparency and enthroned accountability. The statement argued that under his leadership, the Federal Government for the first time ordered through his ministry, a forensic audit of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), a commission under his ministry’’
Iwok, who hails from Nto-Otong in Abak, Akwa-Ibom State, also narrated how Akpabio led state government vigorously campaigned against, and stamped out the age long ‘House Boy Syndrome” a social scourge that propels teenagers and the youths from the state to embrace domestic servitude as a career against the pursuit of education and marketable skills.
Speaking experientially further, Amb Iwok, a Certified Youth Developmental Ecologist and Author of the book’ The journey of a House Boy To Significance’, attested that he was among the thousands of Akwa Ibomites that benefited from Akpabio’s unparalleled human capital development in the state.
In his words, I benefited hugely from Akpabio’s human capital development road map in Akwa Ibom State which enabled me to work as a Child and Youth Development Consultant. He sent me and other notable Akwa Ibomites to the United States based Institute. The wealth of knowledge derived from that training ‘revolutionized’ our lives. Personally, I must say that my life has never remained the same after that training. Today, I have a vocation to be proud of anywhere I step my feet.
While the release boasted that Akpabio led Senate will replicate similar feats at the national levels, the Group insisted that the 10th National Assembly under Akpabio’s leadership will definitely incubate, nurture and bring to fruition bills that will promote economic well being of Nigerians, usher in massive infrastructural and human capital development as well ensures security of lives and property of Nigerians.
Amb Paul Iwok, therefore, assured Nigerians that the new President of the Senate will deliver in his new position. The Group also called on all to give the Akpabio led Senate and Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu led Federal Government the unalloyed support that they both deserve.