Be Role Model To Your Peers, Ashoka Urged Young Changemakers
Maryam Aminu
A new group called ‘Everyone A Changemaker’ (EACH), launched in Abuja recently by Ashoka Africa will fast-track home-grown solutions to social-economic challenges
The Venture and Fellowship Manager, Anglophone West Africa, Ashoka Africa, Mr Ikenna Anyadike said the launch of EACH which took place at Casa De Lucy Hotel, Abuja was part of the lined up activities to showcase, amplify and spread the key message of EACH vision to empower both the young and old with skills necessary to transform their communities for the common good.
The Ashoka launch also came up with unveiling the six Nigerian youths below the age of 21 who, irrespective of their young age have decided to avail themselves to creating the desired changes needed to make the world a better place.
Ashoka described them as a carefully selected network of young people who have found their power to create change for the good of their communities and are leading a team and engaging their peers and the entire world towards actualizing the vision of Everyone a Changemaker.
Ashoka said its leaders, including Ashoka Young Changemakers, will share ideas, strategize, co-create tools, build crosscutting relationships and partners, champion and spread the movement across all parts of Nigeria.
Changemaking is the “new education”. It is the most essential skill for thriving in the world today. Education is no longer just about what students read in textbooks and get taught in school. It is also about the messages and impressions that children and young people are exposed to everyday on various platforms,he added
In discussing the power of partnerships and crosscutting connection, the Vice President, A Youth Years Africa, Okey Uzoechina revealed that the organisation is pulling together resources and abilities towards the revolutionary core for change.
“We have been cultivating the partnerships, we’ve been making sure that the essential oxygen and supplies that we need to launch and sustain the movement is already in place. We built partnerships with the media, publishers, government, teachers’ unions and schools of education.
The engagement has led to jujitsu partnership including the Ministry of Education, TRACE, Voice of Nigeria, Radio Nigeria/Radio One Lagos, Lantern Books, National Publishers Association, National Open University of Nigeria and All Nigerian Conference of Principals of Secondary schools,he added
