Public Figure
Eyam Peace Edu is a dynamic youth leader, who is passionate about making a difference in the
educational sector of Africa and so far she has been improving
and changing Child literary in Africa.
From
the early age of 17, she interned at a primary school in a suburb of FCT,
Karshi Discovering that majority of her pupils could barely read, she became
inspired to set up a reading club which measured remarkable progress and later
collaborated with an Non-Governmental Organization; Beks Literacy Program
impacting 1,080 children in the community and equipping them with the life-age
skill of reading. Taking advantage of
the Accelerated Christian Education (ACE) curriculum, in partnership with
Girl’s space and Global Child Foundation, over 1000 learning materials were
distributed and over 950 students reached out to in 4 months. She intentionally
exposed herself to social change, problem-solving, and leadership development.
Peace
believes in the incredible the role of the innovative media sector in today’s educational advancement.
She has
advocated for quality learning and used the media as tool in fighting low
standards of living. She achieved this by starring in various movies that
portray why and where change must be effected. Sponsored by the African Union,
under the auspice of Unleash Ur Creativity,
she portrayed in a movie called 'Uncovered', highlighting
the plights of Internally Displaced Persons at Gwozo, Abuja, It emphasized the poor literacy level and existing
unfavorable conditions at the camp. It was recorded to have had over 13,000
viewers on TrybeTV. It was recognized and screened at the ASA
Humanitarian Film Festival in Germany, and the CUMP Festival, in Nairobi Kenya,
and many more.
She
also starred in a native movie; 'Ettan
Etti', speaking concerning issues of teenage pregnancy and youth
empowerment. This movie went on to inspire the Ofutop community youth in South-South,
Nigeria.
In
her Church community, she inspired over 50 Teen leaders to read a book each
week and meditate on a message each day for about a year from September 2018 to
end of 2019.
At
the launch of the Worldreader App in Nigeria; an app that has availed over
10,000 African literacy books for children, Peace spoke on the relevance of
literacy to over 300 Children, School administers and Curriculum developers.
When
movement eased during the global pandemic lockdown, she commenced a tutorial
training for Post-covid school resumption. During this Academic Boost camp,
over 300 books were read in 6weeks with 49children, teenagers, and 12
caregivers benefiting immensely.
Excited
about purpose, she facilitated a session on Reason For Being to 102
participants across 5 African countries including Nigeria, Cameroon, Cote.
d'Ivoire, Kenya, and South-Africa in the just concluded ZEVE online 30-days Mental Health Challenge.
Several participants reached out speaking of how they finally understood the
purpose and began the search for theirs.
As
a volunteer with the Inner City Missions, she reached out to 76 children and
their families in Inner cities. Working with the team, she taught the kids
about sanitation and distributed free sanitary wears to them. She equally
visited Tertiary institutions to sign up students to the Human Volunteer Network
(HVN) platform. Participating in the Education-in-Emergency reach out, 46
children in Abuja Children's Home, FCT were actively engaged.
Cooperating
with Patriots Vibe, an Organization that has improved education by training
Teachers, She organized different training for over 50 teachers and caregivers
to improve their work with children.
Through
the years, she has been moved by the plight
of the non-conducive educational setting in various communities, where children
are not disposed to read and write. she has facilitated many partnerships
leading to starting and equipping libraries in
Schools, IDP camps, and communities, starting up TEEVO and French clubs across
schools in suburbs in FCT and its environs, using short films for social good
and inspiring young persons with mentorship and intervention programs in
Nigeria and neighboring African countries and in total reaching up to 3000
children.
Peace
Edu Eyam is a Christian, the Director of Pleroma
Schoolhouse(@pleroma.schoolhouse), a World literacy ambassador, a country
Director for Girls against Violence Initiative(GAVI), a platform that has
worked tirelessly to defend the rights of girls across Africa, an Ashoka Young
Changemaker, a mentor, an inspirational speaker, a certified French linguist,
and presently studying to be a Documentary Filmmaker.
Age:21
Birthday
:19th july
Gender:
Female
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