Do The Dream Youth Development Initiative, in collaboration with the Chicago, Illinois, United States-based Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Life Development Centre, has donated a Leadership Library to Ayedere Ajibola Senior Grammar School, Ketu, Lagos, in commemoration of World Literacy Day.
The event had hundreds of students, teachers, and the Tutor- General/Permanent Secretary District II, Ministry of Education, Mrs. Anike Adekanye, in attendance.
They took their turn to read some pages of a book entitled: You can be the Dream written by Adebusuyi Olutayo Olumadewa.
Speaking at the event, Adekanye lauded the effort of the Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwoolu, and Commissioner for Education, Mrs Folasade Adefisayo, in ensuring qualitative education in Lagos.
Mrs Adekanye described the event as a special day in the lives of students worldwide and appreciated the initiative and the partner for keying into the reality that the government cannot do it alone.
She expressed the need for NGOs and individuals to contribute to the development of education.
Mrs Adekanye said: “Today has been declared as the World Literacy Day to emphasise the importance of education in the world.
“Education enables us to have a lot of knowledge of things around us and opens us to creativity as well as knowing our rights, including preparing us for the future.
The founder/Executive Director, Do The Dream Youth Development Initiative, Adebusuyi Olutayo Olumadewa, said the Leadership Library was developed to help students in secondary school enhance their leadership abilities by instilling a passion for reading to help them make informed choices that will benefit their interactions and decisions in the future.
He added that it would also bridge the reading and learning inequalities that exist in Nigeria between public and private schools.
“The library will teach the Sustainable Development Goals by teaching young people how to localise the SDGs from where they are with what they have. With the SDGs Corner, we intend to raise young leaders that will cause the wheels to spin.”