By Juliet Jacob
The Elizabethan Humanitarian Life Foundation, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) has established ”Rescue The Boys” project to help the boy child deal with adolescent challenges unique to the gender.
Fully operational, the project will draw attention of the unique needs of the boy child to the society, government and service providers for programming.
At the launch, the Founder of the NGO Mrs.Oyinade Samuel Eluwole, said one of the reasons why the project was designed was to identify and prepare young adults to be their best in the society at large.
She stated that the foundation is a life cycle-based intervention for male gender at all levels. According to her, the foundation prefers to work silently and carefully with their end users rather than doing work with the media following every step of the way.
Over the years, she said she had seen and she is still seeing boys and men going through situations that made them lose their sense of belongings, which in the end, invariably created bitterness in them towards society at large.
Presently, the project is running 6 youths lifestyle and skills building programmes in the country. They include; Rescue The Boys(RTB),Be Your Best(BYB);Cradle To Teens (C2T); Young Patriots (YP);Culture Vibes (CV) and Bland Lift (BL).
The BYB is an intervention designed to identify and prepare young adults to be their best in the society. C2T is an intentional and holistic platform to guide teens behaviourally.
YP is to catch them young and nurture them to be good citizens and ambassadors wherever they find themselves.
“We teach them governance and human rights,” she said.
