About Me

Ebenezer is an award-winning social worker and youth engagement strategist with years of experience as a volunteer, partner and pioneer of social development programs for children, teenagers and youths.

An Alumni Fellow of Carrington Youth Fellowship Initiative (CYFI), an initiative of the United States Consulate General, Lagos. As a CYFI Fellow in 2012/13, the free vocational training program, Youth Entrepreneurship and Creative Academy (YEC-Academy) pioneered by Ebenezer and teammates won the American-Nigeria Partnership Award as the Best Youth Engagement Project out of five projects sponsored by the U.S Consulate under the CYFI Program.

Ebenezer holds a Certificate in Leadership Development from Daystar Leadership Academy, Nigeria; Certificate in Business English from NewStart Institute, Canada; and Certificate in Information Technology with Distinction from Ultra Brains Institute of Technologies, Nigeria.

He is a founding executive member and the Director of Projects and Publicity for African Resourceful Leaders Foundation; Social Media Publicist for Brainy Educare Services; Communications and Strategy for Y.E Company; Co-Editor for GWC Magazine among other projects.

He maintains a personal blog known as USE YOUR MIND (http://gent2smile.blogspot.com), a platform for his poetic writings, opportunities for youths, and social issues.

• My Interests
  Child & Youth Rights, Child Labour, Civil Society, Digital Literacy, Informal/Experiential Learning, Literacy, Poverty, Social Entrepreneurship, Youth Violence