Every vision is always for an appointed time. And yet, every day, we must keep showing ourselves approved by the stepwise missions we engage in everyday.
My vision is of a PROGRESSIVE world where a great number of people are empowered everyday to live, lead and create their best lives everyday.
Armed with this, everything I've done (and will be doing) is an evolving MISSION into how Africa (Nigeria first) can benefit by the empowerment of it's communities, it's people, it's brands, it's sectors, it's projects, it's organizations and it's governments, with the ENLIGHTENED actions, programs, policies, knowledge, values and LEADERSHIP that's needed to create this fine world, and to continually embody it's progressive agenda of fairness, justice and all-round growth.
This is the mission and vision I wake up to deliver everyday. I'm marvelously helped by God and my creed, and per His instructions that I be a bright light and salt to his people, and to help others become epic on their journey.
Up there in the bio is a directory of the projects and things I'm currently working on. They may change in the future, but the mission, values and vision I hold strong will never change.
Thank you for staying connected.
Your friend,
Ayodeji Abatan (AA)
#ForEnlightenedPublicGood
#AyoMeansBusiness
#BecomeEpic
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17 STUDENTS SO FAR. Personally, I'm super grateful to my excellent ground team, our kind contributors & sponsors who added to our stock, and our able God with whose grace the provisions were made available.
As we closed the curtain on this JAMB sponsorship initiative last Monday, and as the team and I were heading back to our bases, I couldn't help but recognize the sense of gratitude and achievement that came over me.
It was the sort of sense that whispered "Well done faithful servant. You paid heed to My instructions and pushed on despite the setbacks. Now, a good number of your brothers and sisters have been empowered to write this year's JAMB. Be sure that they'll pass and have one leg up in following their educational dreams in the university."
We'll be following up with them as they prepare to write their exam next month by April 16.
#AADevelopmentInitiative
#ForEnlightenedPublicGood
#Education #YouthEmpowerment #Ifo2Constituency #OgunState
📸: @DanielOniPhoto 🏅
We're working with a number of schools in the Araromi Oke-Odo community to sponsor JAMB forms for indigent students.
There's a pattern wherein students from low-income communities don't sit for their final/university-qualifying exams because of several reasons, chief of which is usually lack of funds. They then spend years at home without furthering their education. In this time, they loiter the streets and most get lured by negative influences.
Perhaps, we can break that chain by helping students get the opportunity to write JAMB and secure admission into a public university of their picking.
We'll be sharing more details of this initiative soon.
#EmpoweringPeopleAndCommunities
#AADI
@DevelopIfo@AchieversFA
Queen was part of our Achievers uPrep last year, a final exams preparation program organized for senior secondary school leavers.
She passed her JAMB and WAEC, gained admission to study banking and finance in a state-run university in Nigeria and is now rounding up her first semester. We're proud of her and we're cheering her on to more success.
#Achiever
#AADevelopmentInitiatives
Today, again, thanks to the kind family who took special interest in Adam and Francis, the school fees for the brothers have been renewed and paid fully for the year. The brothers are in junction classes, JSS3 and SS3 respectively, and it's exciting to know that they can continue to focus on their studies without fear of being sent out of class.
We're rooting for them and we'll be keeping tabs on their performance in school.
#SchoolSupport
cc @AchieversFA@DevelopIfo
Since September 2021 Fathia(left) and Akorede(right) have had their school fees paid for by Miss Wande who took interest in the two girls.
Akorede's mom, a single parent was having issues with paying her fees alongside those of her two older siblings.
Fathia's parents are absent, her father even more absent that her mom. Fathia lives with her grandmom who unfortunately doesn't have the financial capacity to pay her fees hence she was dropped out for a full session till the sponsorship was made available.
As the sponsorship was gender/financial vulnerability preferenced, Fathia and Akorede were very eligible for it at the time. Till this day, the sponsorship continues. All glory to God.
cc @developifo@achieversfa
💧AYODEJI ABATAN DEVELOPMENT OFFICE,
Currently at IFO, OGUN STATE, NIGERIA
📸 Daniel Oni
Would any talk or policy on development even be complete if the state of children isn't considered?
Young people are the future. Quality formal education is the most important thing any society can offer them. Quality formal education joins hands with quality parenting and quality socialization to help them mature into the responsible and productive citizens our society needs.
All these help to nurture the best potential in them so they can in turn go on to develop and contribute to a better world for all of us.
📸:@DevelopIfo /@AchieversFA /
@DanielOniPhoto
#children #girlchild #youth #education #grassroots #developifo
Here's a list of vaccination centers in Ifo Local Government Area to get the Covid vaccine from, and those from a number of LGAs too.
#PSA #Health
#DevelopIfo
"In thinking about local policies and projects, one question leaders have to raise is: "How does this project/policy affect the young people of the area?"
We have to take this question in thinking about everything from the building of roads to healthcare, to education, to employment, to security, to everything.
The leaders of tomorrow live right here in communities within Ifo Local Government Area, as they do in other areas in Nigeria, and governments (both state & local) must begin to develop and direct ample policies at developing this section of our teeming community."
- Ayodeji Abatan
Curator, Develop Ifo
📷: Victor Adewale
