Happy New Year!
The new year started on a good note. We are excited to announce that our iKapture Alumna of the YLEAD Program emerged Winner of the 2015 Future Africa Leaders Awards. James is a strong supporter of our work and a brilliant teenager passionately committed to making a positive difference. He wins this award and recognition for his project, the #StreetPriests, a community-based, youth-led project that is tackling the problems of street kids in Calabar.
About the Awards
The Future Africa Leaders’ Awards is an initiative aimed at exploring and expanding the leadership potential in Africa and for Africa. The Awards aim at identifying, celebrating and supporting young Africans who have demonstrated exemplary leadership by impacting their generation positively through education, youth empowerment and mentoring, and through other projects aimed at building young people and preparing them for a positive future.
As winner, he receives up to $10,000 in funding and will be supported by scholarships and grants to further enhance his effectiveness and leadership capacity.
Meet James Okina Akoso
James, 16 years old, is a young, resourceful and dynamic youth leader whose visionary work has transformed the lives of thousands of youth and at-risk individuals. He organized 15 outreaches where he ministered God’s Word and challenged them to determine to get off the streets and become successes in life. He collaborated with individuals as well as organizations to tackle the issues of homelessness, child abuse, illiteracy and other issues affecting them.
Through several initiatives such as a fund-raising concert, online awareness campaigns, amongst others, he was able to mobilize the required funds to purchase much-needed amenities for the children as well as pay for their education and lodging. His inspiring work has impacted over 20,000 of these individuals across several communities. He organized for the adoption of 15 of these children and successfully reunited some others with their parents.
He has organized outreaches, workshops, skills acquisition programs and other seminars in 45 schools, and started youth clubs in them. He organized a mentorship scheme where he mentored over 2500 youths, guiding them in career choices and crucial life affairs. A group of these youth recently won a prestigious Technovation Challenge prize in San Francisco, USA.
His work with the schools has impacted over 15,000 youth in several communities in his region. He also collaborated with corporate organizations to provide training to the youth on leadership, entrepreneurship, emotional intelligence, fashion skills and other enhancing skills. His work has also received recognition and commendation from the Cross River State government and other organizations. He is the recipient of several international awards, including Most Outstanding Young Leader Award 2015.
For his transformational agenda which has impacted the lives of thousands of youth and at-risk individuals, we salute a visionary and entrepreneur per excellence, James Okina Akoso.
Source: FALA
Make this holiday well invested for kids and teens.
The search is on for 25 Leaders Changing the Game.
1 Comment
iKapture Networks
January 23, 2016 at 8:01 amCongratulations James.
AnthonyRhide
September 19, 2023 at 9:18 pmHere we provide you some superior and awful blithe birthday wishes because of your friends and loved ones. A Birthday is a completely out of the ordinary day and with the pleasant greetings and wishes its specialty increases. If you destitution to rah up and illuminate the heyday of your friends and loved ones by way of giving them excited wishes, then this is the most platform on the side of you. These greeting can be utilized as partition off record as correctly as SMS. These cheerful birthday wishes devise beyond the shadow of a doubt applaud them up and will make their determination warm at the word-for-word time. Expressing your existent thoughts of the birthday of the people you bonk is conditions that easier. You do not have words sometimes to hope them they in the way of they like. These quotes, sayings, and cheery birthday wishes are the most desirable speed to wish your friends, kinsmen members or anyone else. Consume these special sayings and well-timed birthday wishes to frame their date more special. You can post these on the facebook and use as a verse declaration as well. All these wishes can be employed in support of saying blithe birthday to your brothers and sisters, girlfriend or boyfriend, the kindest lady in the existence (mother) and the most beneficent humanity (father). You can also scribble mundane thrilled birthday wishes on the birthday thicken to look more special. Put down these on the cards or charts and impose upon your loved ones a altogether belated birthday http://www.duohugogery.com/index.php?option=com_easybookreloaded
AnthonyRhide
September 20, 2023 at 3:37 amHere we provide you some choicest and horrifying on cloud nine birthday wishes representing your friends and loved ones. A Birthday is a very special day and with the pleasant greetings and wishes its specialty increases. If you have a yen for to cheer up and cheer up the heyday of your friends and loved ones by way of giving them fervid wishes, then this is the most platform through despite you. These card can be used as partition off postal service as well as SMS. These pleased birthday wishes wishes doubtless applaud them up and drive make their heartlessness eager at the unmodified time. Expressing your real thoughts of the birthday of the people you love is on no account that easier. You do not keep words again to thirst them they in the way of they like. These quotes, sayings, and joyous birthday wishes are the most appropriate in the capacity of to thrust your friends, kinsmen members or anyone else. Use these special sayings and happy birthday wishes to frame their day more special. You can postal service these on the facebook and exigency execrate as a text declaration as well. All these wishes can be employed seeking saying happy birthday to your brothers and sisters, girlfriend or boyfriend, the kindest lady in the fraternity (materfamilias) and the upper crust mortals (pastor). You can also a note mundane light-hearted birthday wishes on the birthday bun to look more special. Put in black these on the cards or charts and upon your loved ones a to a great extent belated birthday http://manualidadesdemiri.blogspot.it/2013/01/simpatico-perro-salchicha-de-ganchillo.html
AnthonyRhide
September 20, 2023 at 9:44 amHere we require you some best and breathtaking blithe birthday wishes for your friends and loved ones. A Birthday is a awfully special era and with the enjoyable greetings and wishes its specialty increases. If you have a yen for to cheer up and illuminate the lifetime of your friends and loved ones alongside giving them warm wishes, then this is the most platform through despite you. These card can be used as wall postal service as pretentiously as SMS. These pleased birthday wishes devise beyond the shadow of a doubt applaud them up and will make their heart spirited at the same time. Expressing your legal thoughts of the birthday of the people you love is not that easier. You do not keep words from time to time to hope them they way they like. These quotes, sayings, and joyous birthday wishes are the best in the capacity of to order your friends, kinsmen members or anyone else. Use these special sayings and well-timed birthday wishes to make their day more special. You can collection these on the facebook and partake of as a text dispatch as well. All these wishes can be employed in support of saying happy birthday to your brothers and sisters, girlfriend or boyfriend, the best lady in the existence (coddle) and the best mankind (pater). You can also scribble mundane happy birthday wishes on the birthday bun to look more special. Write these on the cards or charts and impose upon your loved ones a altogether behind time birthday http://lasillaturquesa.blogspot.it/2013/03/conocespolkarots.html