Green Educators Workshop - First Edition (Summary)

The Green Institute hosted its first Green Educators Workshop for students and Teachers in High Schools, this is inline with the Institutes mission.

Our mission is to build the next generation of sustainability innovators through education, advocacy and social entrepreneurship.

The opening introduction was given by Simileoluwa Kafaru, the Team Lead of the Institute on what the Institute is all about and an introductory speech on what to expect from the workshop

In attendance was Kitan David, the cofounder and CEO of SeedDev and Abraham Akpan, the Director of Emerging communities Africa and Akure Tech hub. They both came around and gave a talk on Tech for Social Good. Challenging individuals to upskill and educate themselves to be globally competitive.

Mr Kitan Davis

Mr Kitan Davis

Kitan Davis, one of the invited speakers spoke on tech for social good, sharing light on how Nigerian youths need to reinvent themselves through continuous personal development to be globally competitive.

We are advocates of the 3.R’s and its only natural for us to have a session that accommodates this. Thus, we had a skill acquisition session which trained participants on the use of recycled materials for making awesome and beautiful frames.

The participants were equipped with strategies that enables them have an Active Green Club in their respective schools and techniques to ensure participation of club members.

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Mr Akpan Abraham

Mr Akpan Abraham

Mr. Akpan Abraham started with a game of Simon says which cooled off everyone and got them excited about his talk where he shed light on the fact that we do not need to climb mountains to solve problems but by looking at our environment and see the immediate needs we can proffer innovative solutions.

The Green Team

The Green Team

The closing remark was given by Miss Adeeko Seunfunmi, the Lead Organizer and Miss Arijeniwa Foluke.