Red Cross Initiative 2020

OGAV’s new initiative sponsored by Red Cross Canada has been enriching experience for all youth girls and our volunteers. It has been busy and wonderful learning time interacting with youth girls in peel.

Blooming in Adversity initiative by OGAV is a Covid intervention project to reach out to 500 young adults ( girls) in Peel region with care packages and offer mental health and wellness, and empowerment programs – navigation of financial resources and others.

Along with our weekly webinars presented by experts on topics like ” How to leverage Technology for academics and beyond” , by Dr. Lorraine Otoide

“Building resilience in the face of adversity”, by Richard Olumide Oyefeso

Our upcoming webinar is on Entrepreneur skills ,Financial resource & skills”, presented by Director Nnenna Uboma ,Global Risk Management, Scotiabank

The month of October was spent on Community outreach , connecting and building relationship with the girls. A very rewarding experience

We at OGAV are grateful to be sponsored by the Government of Canada and Red Cross and are thrilled to be empowering and educating girls in peel about mental health and wellness in this COVID pandemic era.

About our Founder

OLUBUSOLA KOLADE studied at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria from where she graduated with an Honor’s degree in Food Science and Technology. She later proceeded to Reading University, England for her Master’s degree in Food Quality Control. She went back for second Master’s Degree at Brunel University London, England for Masters in Environmental Pollution Science with Project Management. Shortly after, she immigrated to Canada and took up an appointment with Ryerson Polytechnic University as an Asst. Professor in the Science department. Olubusola has been an educator in the secondary sector in the last fifteen years with the Toronto District School Board (TDSB). Her passion for the youth and the need to “catch them young” as she says, made her to go back to Teachers College at Brock University, Hamilton, Canada and since then, has been an employee of TDSB as a teacher. Her passion for the young ones to succeed motivates her to chair/co-chair different initiatives, such as Character Education, the Student Recognition award, the Outstanding Student of the Month Award and the Equity Committee. Olubusola is a firm believer in mentoring youth. She thinks that no youth should be left behind but equipped to achieve success and that good…

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