Mentoring in Style: Our Project BE Event with FCMB in a Nutshell
On Tuesday 2nd of November 2021, the staff of First City Monument Bank (FCMB) led by Mr. Omoniyi Iyanda, Team Lead Corporate Social Responsibility and Reporting, visited our school in Ikota Lagos to participate in our Project BE – group...
New Kids On The Block – Bethesda Secondary School Ikota
Yippee! The numbers are in; 175 disadvantaged children enrolled at Bethesda Secondary School, Ikota. The first day of resumption at the Bethesda Secondary School, Ikota on September 27th, 2021 was nostalgic. Children from Ikota community trooped in, boarding the Bethesda...
Volunteers with Extraordinary Hearts – For the Love of Humanity
When we say, you haven’t seen it all just believe it. There are volunteers with the coolest and warmest heart. It is not just about how they live life but what they give to impact lives. They just come as...
Profiling Exercise for a Continuing Education
We recently flung open the gates to over 1000 children for profiling exercise. Bethesda is thrilled to have embarked on another profiling exercise that is aimed at giving disadvantaged children the opportunity to go to school. Together, our team was...
Everyone Has A Story To Tell!
Throughout human history, people have thought to share their stories, journeys, experiences, and thoughts with the next person or people. Books have been around for centuries. From clay tablets to papyrus to Chinese bamboo books to the Gutenberg Bible to...
What can we do to end child poverty?
For the past few years in Nigeria, the poverty rate has increased continuously that we have managed to overtake India as the poverty capital of the world. This statistic is in many ways alarming and even though it affects all...
Time We Made A Change
It’s time for a change! Almost 50% of people living in Nigeria currently live in extreme poverty and we just think you understand. It means that if you meet about 100 people every day, 50 of them are living on...
Quality Education – The Solution!
Education is a fundamental human right. Millions of children are robbed of an education because of who they are, where the live or grew up, what social class they are born into and their gender. Many are deprived of learning...
A Bethesda child – Have You Met One?
A Bethesda child is the epitome of hope, always smiling and ever grateful. I have been fortunate to meet a lot of them and even though they are unique, they still have some similarities. They usually have a back story...
Education: The Answer to Extreme Poverty
Last week was about the world food day and the international day for the eradication of poverty. Tackling two very serious problems affecting our world today. World leaders and the world at large pulled together to discuss solutions to the...