The Ovie Brume Foundation (OBF) is one of the twenty-two recipients of the first Aspire Coronation Trust Foundation (ACT) grant. ACT Foundation is a Lagos-based philanthropic grantmaking organization established in 2016 to support local, national and regional non-profit organizations working in the areas of health, entrepreneurship, environment, and leadership. The Ovie Brume Foundation will therefore be implementing this new project, Future’s Project targeted at youth ages 20 – 30. The goal of the project is "to reduce the rate of...

The Education unit organized the summer camp in partnership with Discovery Place for pupils in her primary schools in OBF partner schools from 7th to 25th August 2017. The three weeks summer program held at White Light Montessori School, Victoria Island Lagos with 39 children (Female 44% Male 56 %). The children participated in various activities and learnt different skills, which included; knitting, baking, coding, poetry, dance, craft making, photography and life-building. In addition, a mentorship session held for all the...

On Friday 8th September, 2017, Ovie Brume Foundation (OBF) joined the rest of the World to commemorate the 2017 International Literacy Day with a panel discussion on the theme “Literacy in a Digital World”. Two student members of the Foundation, Abubakar Jubril and Rosemary Adibe moderated the discussions focusing on new ways young people could use technology as well as other available tools to improve their literacy level. The panel were a mix of professionals in different fields; they included Adeola Awogbemi (Executive Director, OBF),...

The Future’s Project, funded by the Aspire Corona Trust (ACT) Foundation kicked off in September 2017. The project aims to provide young people with practical vocational training skills integrated with financial literacy and business management skills. The skills training include, Makeup, Catering, Fashion Design, Soft Furnishing / Interior Decoration, Leather Works and Beauty & Spa. The training will span a 4 months period with two months internship thereafter. Milestone achieved so far include: Partnership with Zizi Cardow, Veni...

Winners from the regional rounds of the Lafarge Africa National Literacy Competition competed at the Grand Finale of the competition on Thursday, 16th November 2017. The Finale featured, a Literacy Assessment, Summary Writing and Spelling Bee, conducted by the Ovie Brume Foundation. In attendance were, the Keynote speaker, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili; Chairman, Lafarge Africa Plc, Mr. Mobolaji Balogun; MD/CEO, Lafarge Africa Plc, Mr. Michel Puchercos; Honourable Minister of Education represented by the Executive Secretary, National Commission for Mass...

On Saturday 25th November 2017, the Ovie Brume Foundation celebrated the 2017 Global Peace Games with over 1,000 young people from 22 public primary and secondary schools. The event held at the Methodist Boys High School, Victoria Island, Lagos and in attendance were students, teachers, principals, sports officials from Nigeria Association of Physical Education Teachers, media, medical team from Lagoon Hospital as well as members of the Ovie Brume Foundation Youth Centre. The event featured track and field events, Match Past Parade, Dance,...

Taekwondo is a scientific and the most systematic Korean traditional martial arts, that teaches more than physical fighting skills. It is a discipline that shows ways of enhancing the spirit and life through training the body and mind and it is an officially recognized game in the Olympics.  On 2nd December 2017, the Ovie Brume Foundation organized the 4th edition of the Ovie Brume Taekwondo U-14 Taekwondo competition. The competition brought together, 109 contestants aged 6 - 14 years from clubs and public / private schools, at the...

On 2nd February, 2018, the Ovie Brume Foundation played host to international recording artist and humanitarian, Vanessa Mdee. The Executive Director, Adeola Awogbemi and Head of Programs, Taofeek Adeleye welcomed the international artist and took her on a tour of the Foundation. Vanessa Mdee’s visit to the Foundation afforded her the opportunity to learn about the Foundation and its activities. As part of the planned activities, Vanessa Mdee met with the Foundation's Youth Centre members and spoke to them about believing in their vision...