As part of skills acquisitions programme for adolescence, Lion Quest Nigeria, an arm of Lions Clubs International Foundation, recently, trained 145 secondary school teachers in four different locations in Lagos and Ogun States, respectively.

The Lion Quest programme is designed to teach young people, skills necessary for their everyday success, such as  learning to accept responsibility, setting goals for healthy living, building self confidence, communication skills and service learning, etc  As  a social and emotional learning (SEL) programme and in over 90 countries, the scheme provides foundation for dealing with anger and frustration, peer pressure, negative behaviours and developing positive behaviours for academic performance.

A statement byCountry Coordinator, Lion Quest Nigeria, Lion Kola Oyekanmi said, “Training of teachers in a 3-day intensive workshop is the most important step in the implementation process of the Lions Quest programme. This is because the programme is curriculum-based and teachers to implement it must be certified. Those certified are issued international certificates which enable them teach the programme anywhere in the world.

“These workshops were sponsored by Lions Clubs International Foundation, LCIF, the charity arm of The International Association of Lions Clubs through a Core 4 Grant with funding from Lions and community leaders in Nigeria”, he stated.

The Skills for Adolescence of Lions Quest began in Nigeria in 2013 in private schools and as at today, more than 20 schools are implementing the programme.

The plan is to introduce its implementation in public schools in future.  Well over 3,000 students are currently benefiting from the programme in Nigeria. This has been made possible with the previous teachers training workshops held in 2013 and 2015.