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Who We Are
The “Vision 2020: Youth Empowerment and Restoration Initiative” is a youth and national development initiative of Lonadek Oil & Gas Consultants which was founded in May 2006. The initiative involves collaboration with stakeholders in the Oil and Gas sector and other educational human resource focused initiatives to ensure the empowerment of Nigerian Youths. The initiative is made up of a vibrant team and a board of trustees of intellectuals, credible and highly respected personalities.
What We are Doing
Vision 2020 currently organises essay competitions, career workshops, summer retreats, facility visits/excursions, mentoring, coaching with future plans to set up scholarship programmes. Since its inception, the initiative has consistently held its programmes in Lagos, Port Harcourt and Abuja while plans to extend hosting of the events to other states of the federation are underway.Summer Retreat
Every year, Vision 2020 Youth Empowerment and Restoration Initiative gathers brilliant students from various secondary schools at a summer camp location for a whole week. During the camping, career counselors and industry professionals are invited to come and educate the students and give them firsthand career counseling, guidance and motivational talks.
During camping, students are also taken out on an excursion to an interesting location such as oil and gas facilities at NNPC, Mosimi.
Mr. Bakare, a PPMC Staff, taking the students on a tour of the flow
station pipes during the summer retreat camping at Lagos in 2008
At the end of the retreat, the best participating students are awarded with gifts and honoraria.
Overall Best Student Laoye Abiodun with Engr. Earnest Nwapa (NNPC) &
Dr. Ibilola Amao (Project Consultant) at the Summer Retreat of 2008 in Lagos
Best behaved Boy Charles Adebayo with Engr.Earnest Nwapa (NNPC) &
Dr. Ibilola Amao (Project Consultant Vision 2020) at the Summer Retreat
of 2008 in Lagos
Best behaved Girl Adebiyi Oluwatobi with Engr.Earnest Nwapa (NNPC) &
Dr. Ibilola Amao (Project Consultant Vision 2020) at the Summer Retreat
of 2008 in Lagos
Career Workshop
Vision 2020 career workshop is a one-day event which is held twice in a year at two selected states of the country. Various schools are invited from the nooks and crannies of the hosting state while professionals from all walks of life are also invited to address the students on various issues. Students are given opportunities to interact and be mentored by high achieving professionals like Prof. Pat Utomi of Lagos Business School, Dr. Ibilola Amao of Lonadek Oil and Gas Consultants, Engr. Ernest Nwapa of NNPC, Ms. Anita Omoile of Deep Blue Energy Services and a host of others.
Students also have opportunities to watch documentaries on oil and gas activities and various key job positions, listen to presentations by professionals on the history of the Nigerian Oil and Gas industry, and the realities of working in the industry. Students learn about the variety of career paths available in the industry and the pre-requisite qualifications for these jobs. Guidance counselors learn about how best to support their students as they prepare for Oil and Gas careers while science teachers learn about the academic and practical requirements for these jobs, and are better able to tune their teaching to meet these needs.
Where We Are
So far, Vision 2020 Youth Empowerment and Restoration Initiative have hosted thousands of students during its yearly Summer Camp and Career Workshop events. We have been able to significantly impacted and reached out to various students through our programmes.
Here are some of the comments from students who participated in our last career workshop and summer retreat events:
Thank you, I want to say that the vision2020, has helped me so far, even the magazine(the May edition), has help me and I know that we are the leaders of tomorrow…Kalu Okechukwu Gideon
...Vision 2020 is a good initiative program that is going to bring the best out of Nigerian youths.Olatunji Adeyinka
It is a motivating team and it really helped the youth to be serious in their academicsAdeniyi Samuel Gbenga
it\'s a very interesting program and I would like you to train youths in Nigeria in oil and gas sector, because most youths with ambitions cannot afford the fee for training/schooling.Omonu Prince Itanyi
I once attended a vision 2020 summer retreat and I believe that you are really inspiring youths’ life. All you can do is continue and I believe Nigeria will be better by year 2020 Baba-Odutayo Thamyrat
Wow this vision 2020 will help us to know we are to go and achieve our goal at the right time.Kalu Okechukwu Gideon
It’s a great thing that an organization is looking in the life of children and youths despite government’s negligence.Raji Idris Olalekan
Where We are Going
Our primary goals and objectives are as follows:
- To ensure that Nigeria, through skilled human resource capital development, can become a top 20 country by the year 2020
- To employ career counselling and awareness programmes for science and technology courses, so that our youths can channel their energies into rewarding careers as vocationals, entrepreneurs and professionals
- To Increase Nigerian Content in the zero-tolerant multi-billion dollar Oil and Gas industries where 15% of the income is being earned by Nigerians because of lack of awareness, requisite skills and competencies
What You Can Do
You can partner with Vision 2020 and reach out to thousands of Nigerian youths and give them hope for a better tomorrow. You can do this by sponsoring our yearly programmes or by donating in cash and kind to the initiative. Other forms of partnership include sponsorship of gift items, presentations, film shows, Question & Answer sessions, one-week summer retreat sponsorship, exposure to mentors in operator and service companies, facilities visits, scholarships, pre-event awareness activities, financial donation and security.
To sponsor our programmes and become a partner please click here.
If you prefer to donate insteade please use this link.