IVLP mentors another 120 students in Ajumoni Senior Grammar School
By Damilola Kushimo
The Lagos State chapter of International Visitor Leadership Programme (IVLP) has finally completed the mentoring of 120 students of Ajumoni Senior Grammar School.
Having gone through six weeks of intensive mentorship programme in the first quarter of the year, the association formally graduated the students in a ceremonious manner.
The council leader, Hon. Remy Shittu Remy, who is an alumnus of the association and also the Team Leader charged the students to ensure that the knowledge they acquired reflect in their personality, urging them to pass it on to their contemporaries in the community as he further advised them to remain motivated in becoming the change and solution they want to see in the community, the country and the world at large.
He assured that the team would continue monitoring the students’ progress to ensure that they make good decisions that would positively impact their lives.
The students were presented with certificates and three novels in addition to the backpack of textbooks and other writing materials that were delivered to them at home during the coronavirus pandemic.
One of the mentees, Ezekiel Ilori, a commercial student, said he had since aligned his life to the teachings he got during the mentorship, explaining how some of his friends tried to lure him into smoking and internet fraud and how he, in turn, advised them against such way of life.
He said: “When some of my friends told me to join them in smoking and get involved in internet fraud – Yahoo Yahoo, I made them understand that it is not good and that there is no future in it. I advised them to turn a new leaf and try to make a better future for themselves. I will like to further advise them to be better person in the community.
“As a commercial student, I want to be an accountant, just as we’ve been charged, to be a solution to the society and the country.”
Also speaking, Miss Jennifer Okoro, an Art student, assured that she would not allow peer group to influence her decision in life as she promised to live up to the good and lofty expectations of the association.
The programme has also been scheduled for the students of Ijeshatedo Senior Grammar School and Ansar–Ud-Deen Comprehensive Senior High School in January 2021.
