- Transforming Lives of Adolescent Girls with Oriyomi Abagun
Jacob Henry, co-founder of ATLAS Initiative Nigeria, promotes children’s education through the Access to School project, which has successfully enrolled 300 out-of-school children. He now works in the UK, focusing on fundraising and partnerships to eliminate barriers to education, encouraging community involvement to support students’ school attendance.
- Join Jacob Henry: Transform Lives Through Education
Jacob Henry, co-founder of ATLAS Initiative Nigeria, promotes children’s education through the Access to School project, which has successfully enrolled 300 out-of-school children. He now works in the UK, focusing on fundraising and partnerships to eliminate barriers to education, encouraging community involvement to support students’ school attendance.
- ATLAS Initiative launches Eco Innovation Club for secondary school students in Lagos
Access to Learning and School (ATLAS) Initiative, a nonprofit organisation that seeks to address issues of inequality in access to education and learning, has launched the Eco-Innovation Club project to promote environmental education and sustainability among secondary school students. The project, which holds in Oregun Junior High School in Lagos, aims to create a learning space where students can actively […]
- Grow your Business With ATLAS
At ATLAS Initiative, we work with volunteers to promote access to life-long learning opportunities in developing countries. To this end, engaging young people in social action to ensure quality education and advance lifelong learning opportunities for everyone, is an essential part of this project. This program is indeed imperative and timely considering the struggling economic situations of the country as […]
- Volunteer With ATLAS Initiative
https://forms.gle/xUYNvZEV1oEFXdAb8 Applications are open for the ATLAS Citizen Volunteer Program. The program is designed for creative and exceptional ethical leaders in civic engagement and social entrepreneurship who are willing to volunteer on a program set up to engage young people in social action to ensure quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for everyone. This program intends to generate impact […]
- You are our 2020 Champion!
2020 was truly a challenging year for us all globally, it pushed humanity to it’s limits. However, with the bravery and kindness of all our donors…
- ATLAS donates wheelchair
When Kehinde Fatai woke up yesterday, it must have seemed like another regular day. The wonderful and vibrant 11 year old twin lives with her parents and siblings in Sangotedo, a community in Ajah, Lagos State. Kehinde has lived with a physical disability since birth. This hindered her access to formal education. While her peers and siblings rushed to school […]
- Play as a tool for Learning
We all acknowledge the importance of education in the life of an individual. While some see education as inculcating morals and values in a child, others see the need to enroll children in schools. Yet, a few assure that it is in the need of a child learning a trade. Understanding and acknowledging the importance of all three aspects of […]
- My Tech-Week Experience (Volunteer)
“THE MIND ONCE ENLIGHTENED CANNOT AGAIN BECOME DARK” – Thomas Paine ICT is a said to be an integral part of modern life. Information and communication technology (ICT) in education is important because it has quickly become one of the basic building blocks of modern society. “Teach me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me […]
- Glory’s Journey With ATLAS
I returned to Nigeria in August 2017 from Cyprus, originally just for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) program which was to last for the next one year. I had studied international relation in Cyprus for a period of three and half years which was an interesting and challenging period. I first had my volunteering experience during the early period […]
- Children in school are not learning
It is no news that majority of students in school are not learning. Here, we would delve into the reason why this is, and express our suggestions of possible solutions to this issue. To be clear, these are just our opinions and we would like to know yours Learning is the process of acquiring new or modifying existing knowledge, behaviors, […]
- Situation of Out of School Children in Nigeria
The target of the sustainable development goal 4 is to achieve the overall improvement in the access to inclusive and quality education for all by 2030. However, there has been no sign of any rapid reduction to meet this target. On the contrary, there has been a slow down since the year 2000 compared to the earlier years on the […]
- Effects of Out of School Children in our Nation
There are several ways of engineering a society. They include laws, norms, rules and procedures. However, these will remain unfruitful without adequate education which is simply providing an institutional structure for training members of the society. The youth and children are the most malleable members of every society, this is why they are the future of a nation. To determine […]
- 21st Century Learning
Learning as an act has changed over several central just like a chameleon, leaning puts on the nature of the current century in which it is taking place for example in the classical Greek period, students decide who their teacher should be, Socrates choose Plato and Aristotle admired Plato to be his teacher. The reverse has been the case since […]
- The Importance of Play in Learning for Children
Play enables children to hone their creativity skills by making use of their active imagination, physical, cognitive, and emotional concentration. Play is essential to a healthy brain development. It is through play that children at a very young age engage and interact with the world and people around them. It has been shown to help children adapt to the school […]
- Poverty and Education
The relationship between education and poverty still exist as a persistent epidemic of the 21 century. The lack of necessary knowledge and skills that could ensure an improve life standard contributes to this epidemic. Studies have shown that the basic level child education is important to any other stages in the life of every child. This is because the learning […]
- Child Bullying – It’s Effects and Lasting Solutions
Bullying is an act perpetrated by one or more individuals, who intentionally cause fear, harm or intimidation to others. It’s a disturbing fact that children all over the world are being bullied on a daily basis, but it’s even more disturbing when you find out that your child is being bullied. Most bullying occurs at school where children come together […]
- Looking Into The Horizon
Everyone talks about the future, my future, our future, community future etc., everyone has a future, a dream, a profession, a course to run. BUT AS we join the race towards the horizon, the fears of what lies ahead grips our heart. We are getting home but getting nowhere…..is there anyone who will hear this, whose heart cares about what […]
- Happy New Year
Looking back at the year 2017 , we reflect on our achievements , challenges and of course – our apex moments on the field. Is been nothing but impeccable and priceless gift to mankind at this very age when selfless, unconditional and steady love to one another is medicine to many troubled souls. As passionate volunteers we are proud that […]
- The Story of a Determined Instrumentalist and Kolb’s Learning Cycle
These are the four stages of kolb’s experiential learning cycle, starting off with concrete experience down to active experimentation. This cycle has been widely used by most successful persons all over the world. Aristotle once said that for things we have to learn before we can do them, we must learn by doing them. There is a popular saying that […]
Jacob Henry, co-founder of ATLAS Initiative Nigeria, promotes children’s education through the Access to School project, which has successfully enrolled 300 out-of-school children. He now works in the UK, focusing on fundraising and partnerships to eliminate barriers to education, encouraging community involvement to support students’ school attendance.
Jacob Henry, co-founder of ATLAS Initiative Nigeria, promotes children’s education through the Access to School project, which has successfully enrolled 300 out-of-school children. He now works in the UK, focusing on fundraising and partnerships to eliminate barriers to education, encouraging community involvement to support students’ school attendance.
Access to Learning and School (ATLAS) Initiative, a nonprofit organisation that seeks to address issues of inequality in access to education and learning, has launched the Eco-Innovation Club project to promote environmental education and sustainability among secondary school students. The project, which holds in Oregun Junior High School in Lagos, aims to create a learning space where students can actively […]
At ATLAS Initiative, we work with volunteers to promote access to life-long learning opportunities in developing countries. To this end, engaging young people in social action to ensure quality education and advance lifelong learning opportunities for everyone, is an essential part of this project. This program is indeed imperative and timely considering the struggling economic situations of the country as […]
https://forms.gle/xUYNvZEV1oEFXdAb8 Applications are open for the ATLAS Citizen Volunteer Program. The program is designed for creative and exceptional ethical leaders in civic engagement and social entrepreneurship who are willing to volunteer on a program set up to engage young people in social action to ensure quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for everyone. This program intends to generate impact […]
2020 was truly a challenging year for us all globally, it pushed humanity to it’s limits. However, with the bravery and kindness of all our donors…
When Kehinde Fatai woke up yesterday, it must have seemed like another regular day. The wonderful and vibrant 11 year old twin lives with her parents and siblings in Sangotedo, a community in Ajah, Lagos State. Kehinde has lived with a physical disability since birth. This hindered her access to formal education. While her peers and siblings rushed to school […]
We all acknowledge the importance of education in the life of an individual. While some see education as inculcating morals and values in a child, others see the need to enroll children in schools. Yet, a few assure that it is in the need of a child learning a trade. Understanding and acknowledging the importance of all three aspects of […]
“THE MIND ONCE ENLIGHTENED CANNOT AGAIN BECOME DARK” – Thomas Paine ICT is a said to be an integral part of modern life. Information and communication technology (ICT) in education is important because it has quickly become one of the basic building blocks of modern society. “Teach me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me […]
I returned to Nigeria in August 2017 from Cyprus, originally just for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) program which was to last for the next one year. I had studied international relation in Cyprus for a period of three and half years which was an interesting and challenging period. I first had my volunteering experience during the early period […]
It is no news that majority of students in school are not learning. Here, we would delve into the reason why this is, and express our suggestions of possible solutions to this issue. To be clear, these are just our opinions and we would like to know yours Learning is the process of acquiring new or modifying existing knowledge, behaviors, […]
The target of the sustainable development goal 4 is to achieve the overall improvement in the access to inclusive and quality education for all by 2030. However, there has been no sign of any rapid reduction to meet this target. On the contrary, there has been a slow down since the year 2000 compared to the earlier years on the […]
There are several ways of engineering a society. They include laws, norms, rules and procedures. However, these will remain unfruitful without adequate education which is simply providing an institutional structure for training members of the society. The youth and children are the most malleable members of every society, this is why they are the future of a nation. To determine […]
Learning as an act has changed over several central just like a chameleon, leaning puts on the nature of the current century in which it is taking place for example in the classical Greek period, students decide who their teacher should be, Socrates choose Plato and Aristotle admired Plato to be his teacher. The reverse has been the case since […]
Play enables children to hone their creativity skills by making use of their active imagination, physical, cognitive, and emotional concentration. Play is essential to a healthy brain development. It is through play that children at a very young age engage and interact with the world and people around them. It has been shown to help children adapt to the school […]
Bullying is an act perpetrated by one or more individuals, who intentionally cause fear, harm or intimidation to others. It’s a disturbing fact that children all over the world are being bullied on a daily basis, but it’s even more disturbing when you find out that your child is being bullied. Most bullying occurs at school where children come together […]
Everyone talks about the future, my future, our future, community future etc., everyone has a future, a dream, a profession, a course to run. BUT AS we join the race towards the horizon, the fears of what lies ahead grips our heart. We are getting home but getting nowhere…..is there anyone who will hear this, whose heart cares about what […]
