YEDI team trains on mental health and mobile data collection

by Youth Development and Empowerment Initiative (YEDI) | Jun 27, 2024 | Training

This week, the YEDI team is participating in a five-day training program facilitated by our  technical partner, Grassroot Soccer. The impact-driven training was co-facilitated by Chimbiya Wiston James, a mental health expert, with experience in using SKILLZ...

YEDI hosts Common Goal’s representative

by Youth Development and Empowerment Initiative (YEDI) | Jun 26, 2024 | News & Updates

YEDI recently hosted Attah Jeph Okekwu, the Impact Manager at Common Goal, to discuss our impact in our operational areas, the need to expand our interventions, and to express our heartfelt gratitude to Common Goal for their support for YEDI and the communities we...

YEDI, partners organize medical outreach to commemorate WAD

by Youth Development and Empowerment Initiative (YEDI) | Jun 26, 2024 | Intervention

To commemorate this year’s World AIDS Day (WAD), YEDI, in collaboration with Grassroot Soccer, ExxonMobil and FIFA Foundation organized a medical outreach and football tournament at Ita-Oluwo Community in Ikorodu, Lagos. This year’s event was held to sensitize...

Grassroot Soccer’s Andrew Dallos visits Nigeria

by Youth Development and Empowerment Initiative (YEDI) | Jun 26, 2024 | News & Updates

Grassroot Soccer’s Director of Strategy and Innovation, Andrew Dallos, was in Nigeria for a week to reinforce the importance of the partnership between his organization and YEDI in ensuring that adolescents in Nigeria have a healthier future. His visit was...

YEDI partakes in DAI-facilitated change management training

by Youth Development and Empowerment Initiative (YEDI) | Jun 26, 2024 | News & Updates

YEDI understands the importance of being prepared for change, as an ingredient to build a sustainable organization and scale up our activities and programs which are targeted at educating, empowering, and inspiring youth and community development across Nigeria. That...