Afon Volunteers Initiative & Prikkle Academy Hosts two-day free (Google-Sponsored) digital marketing training in Afon, Asa Local Government Area, Kwara State

As the need to acquire digital marketing skills become paramount among companies and individual, Google has taken a leading step to train one million Africa youths (students and job-seekers aged 18-30 years) on digital marketing and advance their knowledge on the use of social media.

In a bid to achieve this goal in Nigeria, Afon Volunteers Initiative in collaboration with Prikkle Academy hosted a two-day free (Google-Sponsored) digital marketing training in Afon, Asa Local Government Area, Kwara State for about 30 participants on 13^th and 20^th of August, 2016.

This training involved the youths of Afon community and her neighborhood communities, these youths have different kinds of occupation namely Farming, Marketing, Music production, Students, Artisans and Social Workers.

The topics that were covered during the event include;

-      -- How to promote your business online

-       --Reasons To promote your Product online

-       --Benefits of promoting your business online

-       --Platforms to use while promoting your business online

-       --How to not bore your audience but keep them engaged.

Osho Adebiyi Olasunkanmi, an associate of Mind The Cap Nigeria who presented the training pointed out four key techniques of using social media to promote businesses; Be Found, Be Relevant, Be Engaging and Be Accountable.    

On the day one of the training, six (6) participants were signed up on Google email (Gmail) as they did not have an email address before the training. Also five people were signed up on twitter and guided on how to use it to promote their businesses.

The second phase of the training was to create a wider space for more participants to grow their digital marketing skills and allow reflection of the day one of the training and feedback from all the participants.

However, the participants were not only happy to be exposed to a step-by-step guide on how to use social media to market their product but also gave a valuable feedback that made us believed that we have watered a positive impact on the youth of Afon community. 

The event was broadcast live on Twitter with the hashtag #DigitalMeNG #AfonComm and #SocialMediaMarketing.     

                

AVI Collaborate With Prikkle Academy For A Collaborative Community Project

Afon volunteers Initiative (AVI) and Prikkle Educational Initiative (Prikkle Academy) have collaborated to lead a change in Afon community for the next five (5) month.

The partnership was to bring together 30 community members in Afon to drive change within the community by looking at what works instead of what wrong in the community, by looking at the assets, strengths and the potentials of the community.

This project was established not only to talk about the gifts and resources in Afon community but also mobilized it into tangible social solutions.

PrikkleAcademy the originator of the project  was said to make the project happen in Afon community through the use of Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) approach, using an unconventional form of education to transform ideas and knowledge that has been described as ‘what if, it can happen’ into ‘why not, we make it happen’.

 

We are delighted to welcome the organization into our great community; also, the organization was introduced to the community leaders and a youth association in Afon community who received the organization and promised to render any assistance they can give to make the project a success in the community.

 

We are excited to begin another impactful journey with Prikkle Academy in Afon community.   

 

 

AVI & FLDinAfrica Presents #Digi4Teens in Afon

FLDinAfrica presents #Digi4Teens with Afon Volunteers Initiative

Afon Volunteers Initiative(AVI) has accept the responsibility to tackle illiterate and lack of knowledge on information communication technology (ICT) in Afon community and her neighborhood villages by organizing free ICT workshop for secondary school students in Asa Local Government Area of Kwara State. Nigeria.

The first step was taken to educate two hundred (200) students of Government Secondary School Afon on information communication technology (ICT) in partnership with Female Leadership Development(FLDinAfrica) on 15^th and 16^th of June, 2016.

The two day programme involves both junior and senior secondary students of the host college, which was facilitated by both AVI and FldinAfrica volunteers.

The first day of the event was focused on theoretical part of ICT while the second day was to put the first lesson into practice at the same time taking them a little bit deeper into the practical aspect of ICT.

The students were also opportune to be exposed to the power of mobile phone by Fash Fasoranti Damilola the founder of “Prikkle Academy” an educational and innovative focused organization.

The students were very excited to be present at the event which prompted them to give an inspiring feedback on how helpful and educative the programme was to their life.      

  

About Afon Volunteers Initiative (AVI)

Afon Volunteers Initiative (AVI) established in January 2016. The initiative has progressed into a constituted group with over ten (10) young people as members.  Afon Volunteers Initiative is a community based organization that focused on improving Education, Livelihood and building young people capability in Afon community, Asa Local Government and Kwara State at large.

Few days after its inception, the initiative received recognition from the community leaders.

Since its inception the initiative have developed projects to tackle illiterate and lack of knowledge in information communication technology (ICT) faced by many young people in Afon community and her neighborhood villages by organizing free ICT training for secondary school students in partnership with Female Leadership Development(FLDinAfrica), the platform was also use to enlighten the participants on the importance of education.

Afon Volunteers Initiative was established with the aim of responding to the community problems and finding a sustainable solution to them. However, all the passionate return volunteers of Voluntary Service Oversea (VSO)  in Afon community work with AVI and these young people become the first member of the initiative which has since then developed into Afon Volunteers Initiative led by all the team members as we considered (Everyone) as a leader and initiated by Adam Abdulraheem.

The initiative has minimum age for its membership which is 18 to 25 giving a clear message that engaging young people is a key priority for the organisation and that young person’s views are encouraged and respected. The age rage gave the young people the same rights as fully-grown to kick-start projects to further develop their existing environment and allow young persons to take a lead in community development work.

Current projects, AVI is set to organize a workshop to educate the community women on health issues that might be jeopardizing their lives and to also create more awareness about the existence of the organization in the community. Also AVI is planning to embark on a project to educate the community occupants about the importance of education and how education can be used to eradicate poverty and under civilized out of Afon community.