All book and no skill is said to cause career imbalance especially in the Niger Delta where oil industry insists on employing first class students.
Now, a social worker, Emmanuela Idout, founder and director of ‘Adaptive Impact Foundation’ has rolled out resources to help young persons to begin to pursue skills that the hand can do.
Idout, who has done a lot of volunteering has been motivated by stints in across cancer care, women and gender programmes, education, and early childhood.
Now, ‘Room To Imagine’ has been created in the past two years to build skills and handy tasks to students as well as bring students from both the high and low income brackets to work together and create imaginative products.
Speaking to newsmen during a one-day programme on STEM exploration, creative labs, learning resources, etc, the founder said she noticed that across the sectors she work with, one thing stood out, which is education. ‘So I always wanted to do something that caters to education, but not just education. We already know that a lot of kids in Nigeria are out of school but the ones that we even enroll, the quality of education they are getting is really low.’