About Us
Who We Are
The FirstWord Empowerment Network is a social development intervention with specific focus on youths development and empowerment. It was born out of the passion of her founder, Segun Awolowo to see young people fulfil their potentials. Having experienced a lot of deprivation while growing up, and with loads of obstacles he had to overcome to fulfil his dreams, he thought it necessary to create a platform to empower young people across Nigeria and beyond, starting with Osun State, with relevant skills and knowledge required for success in life.
Formerly known as Dynamic Hope International, The FirstWord Empowerment Network has over the years provided trainings and vocational skills programs for young people both in the rural and urban areas of Osun State.
Our focus is to reduce the level of unemployment, poverty and illiteracy among youths in communities across Nigeria and beyond.
Our primary target are young people between the ages of 15 and 35 who lives both in rural and urban communities. We recognize that their needs may be different based on education, experience and exposure. Our interventions puts all of these into consideration in developing programmes to meet their needs.
Our Mission
To transform communities across Africa by empowering youths with knowledge and skills that will enable them to become agents of change and beacons of light.
What We Do
- We provide library services in communities for young people across all academic levels.
- We organize vocational skill training for young people to enable them to earn a living from profitable ventures.
- We provide tutorial classes for secondary school students who are sitting for O’level and UTME exams.
- We give voice to the yearnings and desires of young people (secondary schools students) through our flagship program called “The Orators” which allow them to express their views on relevant topics.
- We provide special trainings on business and leadership success to youths with business acumen.
- We provide platforms for young people to engage in voluntary services and internship programs that will enhance their career prospects and employability.
- We provide educational support to exceptional youths in the communities who demonstrates academic excellence.
How We Work
- We identify needs in communities.
- We seek further information and clarifications about the need.
- We initiate and develop intervention programmes to meet the needs.
- We solicit for funding support from individuals and corporate organization to execute our programmes.
- We partner with local community leaders to deliver the solutions to people.
- We evaluate and measure the impact of our interventions by getting feedbacks from the beneficiaries and the community leaders
- We prepare reports of our intervention programmes and make them available