BREAKING: CENTRE FOR TOTAL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CONFERRED “2021 DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD”

In recognition of the organisation’s outstanding contributions to the educational and skills development that has made positive impact in the lives of children and youths in Nigeria, the Centre for Total Child Development has been awarded the “2021 DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD”.

The Centre for Total Child Development, an NGO with a mission to improve the quality of life of children and young people by creating and supporting programmes that bring about self-actualization and total development, was conferred the prestigious award by the Centre for Leadership and Good Governance International at it’s Public Lecture and Awards in commemoration of the United Nations World Youth Skills Day 2021 themed “Re-Imagining Youth Skills Post Pandemic” held on Thursday, 15th July, 2021.

The Award was conceptualized to honour, award and thank individuals and organisations for their excellent contributions to skills acquisition and development of young people in the society and their significant contributions to eradication of poverty by equipping young people with relevant skills that will bring about self-reliance and financial independence.

The Public Lecture & Award which had Dr. Gbola Adetunji (MD/CEO, Odunlakin Specialist Hospital and former Commissioner for Health, Oyo State) as the Chairman, Ambassador Romoke Ayinde (CEO, Kaynon Lee Group of Companies) as the Guest of Honour/Mother of the day, Dr. Kunle Awotiku (MD/CE), Uniplan Integrated Services) as the Guest Speaker, Mr. Toyese Oyebode (King Fm, Ibadan) as the Director of Programmes and other notable personalities on the platform was held at the Event Hall, Bolmor Polytechnic, Ibadan, Nigeria.

The Founder Trustee of the Centre for Total Child Development, Mr. Cyril Isi was also conferred with the 2021 DISTINGUISHED LEADERSHIP AWARD at the event. Other recipients of the award were Mr. Wahab Olakunle Waheed (CEO Microgold Computer College of Technology), Alhaji Ajisafe Saliu Oluwarotimi (Oyo State Commandant, UNRS) and Dr. Oluwabukola Olatunji (Founder: Centre for Human Welfare Initiatives).

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ABOUT THE CENTRE FOR TOTAL CHILD DEVELOPMENT (CTCD), IBADAN

Centre for Total Child Development (CTCD) is a non-governmental and non-profit organization established to advocate, advance and promote the rights and welfare of children and young people in the society. It was motivated by love and passion to serve humanity by the founder. CTCD is committed to helping children and young people to realize their potential by equipping them with appropriate knowledge and skills and providing necessary support and empowerment. CTCD was established in 2015 to carter for the physical, emotional, social, mental as well as the spiritual needs of children and young people in the society.

Over the years, we have made remarkable impacts in the lives of young people in communities, schools and orphanage homes. We also work on providing high-quality education to poor children, out-of-school children and especially the girl child because we are passionate about the rights of children and young people to good education. Through our outreach programmes and campaigns we work on creating awareness on social issues that affect the child like child abuse, drug abuse, child trafficking, child labour, child prostitution, early marriage etc.

We also provide assistance to care givers, parents, teachers and institutions that work with children and young people through information dissemination, capacity building, community development, service provision and mentoring. Our overall objective is to have children and young people who are complete and well developed physically, mentally, emotionally, socially and spiritually.

Our vision is to help children and young people actualize their potential by promoting and protecting their rights and welfare and our mission is to improve the quality of life of children and young people by creating and supporting programs that bring about self-actualization and total development.

One of the areas we have seriously paid attention to is human capacity development in terms of skill acquisition and vocational training. Through our skill acquisition program, we train young people in vocational skills like computer application, photography, videography, graphics design and makeup artistry. We share the vision of the National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (NEEDS) which are expressed as: Value re-orientation, poverty eradication, job creation, wealth generation and using education to empower the citizens. So our focus is to eradicate poverty through empowering young people with vocational skills that will help them to create jobs and generate wealth.

Apart from our vocational and entrepreneurship training for young people, we also empower students with life skills through our Road2Success Child Development Programme (a capacity building training workshop for students in secondary schools). This workshop covers the following areas: Skills for my future, Career Exploration, Study and Exam Success Skills, Social Skills and Etiquette, Body Image and Self Esteem, Child Sexual Abuse Prevention and Sex Education. Since 2019, we have trained over 5,000 students and still counting in public and private secondary schools in Ibadan.


CENTRE FOR TOTAL CHILD DEVELOPMENT
18, Anfani Road, Off Ring Road, Ibadan
www.totalchilddevelopment.org
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Email: emailtotalchild@gmail.com
Tel: 08101809463, 08180495451