Sports Without Borders in collaboration with Educate A Generation have concluded arrangements to storm Nigeria for an higher education exhibition programme targeteting young Nigerians.
The exhibition is to avail Nigerians not excluding athletes, coaches and sports officials and Nigerian youths in general with the avenue to access quality education services from top universities in Asia, US, Canada and north Africa.
The founder, Educate A Generation Foundation, Ousman Camara, expressed his delight to take the torch of education development to Nigeria.
Camara who could not conceal his anticipation to arrive Nigeria for the exercise said, “we all know the strategic status and enviable records of Nigeria in all spheres of human endeavors .
“It is my noblest dream to take the best opportunities to our brothers and sisters in Nigeria, to give room for the next generation from the most populous African country, is one great opportunity any genuine human development workers can not resists.”
The Executive Director, Sports Without Borders Development Association, Abdulgafar Oladimeji, in a statement issued in Kano, Monday, said the planned education exhibition would serve as a massive boost for young Nigerians, who want to live their dreams of attending some of the top most higher education institutions across the globe.
He said, “Most interesting is that the Nigerian exhibition programme will give attention to talented sports men and women to utilize their talents to secure admissions as they also they stand the chance of getting scholarships.
“Our young generation would also have the platform to access how they can pursue their dreams of becoming elite athletes and also pursue their academic dreams.”
Blueprint gathered that the education entourage would be arriving Nigeria in mid 2025 for the education exhibition scheduled to be hosted in FCT Abuja and Kano.
Checks revealed further that Camara, an alumni of George Town University, Qatar, GU-Q, had dedicated himself to the mission of service to humanity.
In 2019, Ousman founded the Educate a Generation Foundation in The Gambia, an educational consultant across Africa, who pioneered initiatives like “Kids in Technology” with the purpose to integrate digital literacy into African schools.
Camara designed and launched a Bridge Program at Lamin and Kadie Bah Academy in Sierra Leone.
“It’s a deeply personal project inspired by my own transformative experience at the Qatar Foundation’s ABP,” he said.
Educate a Generation Foundation (EAG) is a pioneering nonprofit organisation committed to transforming the lives of African youths.
It would be recalled that the President and General Manager of ExxonMobil Qatar Alistair Routledge had once presented a donation cheque to the chief executive officer of EAA in the presence of President of Qatar Tennis Federation Nasser bin Ghanim al Khelaifi and Senior Vice-President of Exxon Mobil Corporation Andrew P Swiger, at the 2019 Qatar ExxonMobil Open award ceremony in Doha .
ExxonMobil Foundation had contributed QR1.8 million to a school construction project overseen by Education Above All Foundation (EAA).
Verified sources said, “The contribution had supported the construction of 25 new primary schools in Angola in partnership with Rise International.
The project is part of the Educate A Child (EAC) programme, which operates under the EAA umbrella and provides educational opportunities to the most marginalised and hardest to reach out of school children around the world.