Tech-driven mentorship: ‘Mentee’ app to curb insecurity, build responsible youths

By Juliet Umeh

As insecurity, motivation decline, and unemployment proceed to endanger Nigeria’s societal fabric, experts person begun to look toward technology-enabled mentorship arsenic a sustainable instrumentality to rebuild values and redirect the nation’s youths.

At the One Child, One Mentor league held successful Lagos, organised by Ladies Breaking Boundaries, speakers and facilitators emphasised the request to integrate exertion into younker mentorship to standard its interaction and scope much young radical crossed the country.

The event, themed “I-Rebuild,” focused connected however integer mentorship platforms tin assistance nurture liable citizens by connecting Nigerian youths with relation models crossed industries.

Convener of the initiative, Mrs. Tinu Philips-Odufuye, explained that exertion is cardinal to rebuilding Nigeria done mentorship.

She said: “Insecurity and different vices often thrive erstwhile young radical suffer direction. With technology, mentorship tin beryllium much inclusive and far-reaching. Through integer platforms, we tin link a mentor successful Lagos with a mentee successful Kano oregon a agrarian assemblage successful Ogun State.”

She added that the group’s semipermanent extremity is to “raise solution-driven youths who tin usage technology, creativity, and motivation values to rebuild Nigeria.”

To actualise this vision, the organisation unveiled a caller integer mentorship level called “Mentee”, which connects young radical with mentors based connected vocation interests portion tracking engagement and advancement online. The level is designed to span the mentorship spread crossed Nigeria’s municipality and agrarian divides, allowing youths, adjacent successful distant areas, to entree guidance from professionals nationwide.

President of the organisation, Mrs. Omotope Opatola, said: “Mentorship helps young radical spot those who person gone up of them and marque the close choices aboriginal successful life. Technology present allows america to bash this faster and smarter. We tin mentor a 1000 children astatine erstwhile done a azygous platform.”

One of the impermanent speakers, Pastor Joshua Banjo, noted that integer mentorship tin play a important relation successful addressing insecurity from its roots.

“When we drawback them young, particularly done online mentorship and value-driven integer communities, we trim the chances of breeding aboriginal criminals,” helium said.

 “The younker are not conscionable leaders of tomorrow; they are leaders of now. We indispensable usage exertion to scope them wherever they are, online.”

Participants, including secondary schoolhouse students and young professionals, described the league arsenic eye-opening.

A student, Hafisat Lamidi, said she learned “the value of choosing bully friends and staying focused connected affirmative goals,” adding that the online mentorship level would assistance her enactment connected with inspiring relation models.

The lawsuit was supported by FCMB Asset Management, FCMB Education Investment Plan, Lekki 500 Children Orchestra Team, Beta Malt, Johnvents Foods, and Hammonds School Shoes.

With initiatives similar Mentee, experts accidental Nigeria is taking a measurement toward combining technology, mentorship, and motivation reorientation, 3 captious tools for curbing insecurity and rebuilding the nation’s societal values.

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