Impact & Blog
Stories, articles, and milestones of standing with the boychild.
Street Children Badge of Hope
This is a support program which is targeted at helping young boys who are living and working on the streets to be reintegrated back into their families and pursue excellent educational and skill acquisition opportunities. This program was birthed out of an encounter with a street child in 2021. The young boy named Khalid shed light on life on the street, and the challenges that young people, majority of which are boys, experience. While the founder's effort to reintegrate Khalid at that time was unsuccessful due to lack of resources and other challenges beyond immediate control, the experience shed light to a bigger challenge that is plaguing societies around the world and the importance of interventions that tailored to help children, their families and the society at large.
Law Enforcement Shield of Support (LESOS)
This LESOS program is a project for the support of members of the law enforcement across Nigeria. It is born out of the belief that members of the law enforcement will work better if they enjoy better care and support in every area of their lives. The project will address major areas such as Mental Health Support, Medical Support, Housing Support and Renovation, Childcare Support, Law Enforcement Stations and Barracks refurbishment, Bespoke Trainings and Further Education Support.
Africa Crime Prevention Conference
The Africa Crime Prevention Conference is an initiative birthed from a greater need to advance the SDG 16 across Africa and to equip the law enforcement in African countries to unite against crime and transfer skills that can help enhance crime prevention across Africa. The conference is slated to start in 2026.
The Real Story: Why African Boys Are Not Winning in Tech, Innovation or Education
Across Africa, there is a common belief that boys are doing better than girls in education, technology, and innovation. But this is not the full picture.
We Held Our First International Boys' Day Conference. And It Was a Dream Come True
On July 19, 2025, a dream carried for years finally became reality.
Boys Bootcamp 2022
The boys bootcamp held for the first time in December 2022. We had boys from ages 8-18 in attendance. Speakers included Mrs Gladys Eyongdi, Esq., a legal practitioner and girlchild advocate; Dr. Abayomi Olubitan, a medical doctor who is also one of our patrons and member of our board of trustees; and AIG FIMIHAN Adeoye (Rtd), a now retired Assistant Inspector General of Police who is also one of our patrons and member of our board of trustees. Mr David Kadan, a dedicated young scholar who is passionate about young people especially boys and is currently the director of the Boys Mentorship Club in Nigeria, coordinated the bootcamp. The sessions had five major themes: - Positive masculinity - Rights of women and girls - Cultism awareness - Boys health and wellbeing - Crime resistance and prevention.
The Boys Against Crime Campaign
The campaign was birthed in April 2022 following several reports of criminal activities among young boys which had become quite alarming and hard to control. The vision behind the campaign was a desire to see a drastic reduction in criminal engagements among young people and to encourage crime prevention interventions at the grassroots level. The first contact of the campaign were teenage young people in secondary schools across Ibadan, Nigeria. And to reach a pre diverse audience across different societal strata, an annual virtual crime prevention campaign across all social media platforms are undertaken. Since its inception, over 3000 boys and girls in secondary schools have been reached and educated on various aspects of the law and legal penalties for breaches as well as crime prevention measures for safer communities. The virtual campaign had reached an estimated 10,000 people through direct contact ads as at November, 2024, with over 50 volunteers participating in the campaign. Campaign techniques include storytelling using AI tools, illustration videos, descriptive videos, illustration graphics and prints. All are designed in easy to understand and digest formats for both young and old, literates and illiterates. The schools visited so far include: - Ibadan Grammar School, Ibadan - Oluyole High School, Ibadan - Lagelu Grammar School, Ibadan
Boys Mentorship Groups
Boys Mentorship Groups are groups of boys who are enrolled in a mentorship club where monthly meetings are held. The meetings involve career development programs, topics around positive masculinity, trainings on social interactions and spiritual edification. Presently we have a club at New Reservation Area Baptist Church and we are working to begin another at the Redeemed Christian Church of God (Green Pastures Parish) Leicester, United Kingdom by the end of 2024. We also planning to start community and school clubs to enable boys from diverse cultural, ethnic and religious backgrounds to participate. The group in Nigeria is currently headed by Mr David Kadan.
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