Temi & Oluoma Learning (& Teaching) Income Earning Vocational Skills
Author: TemiAndOluoma
The brief profile reproduced below, was first published online on Temi and Oluoma's Facebook page on · February 28, 2016 · The girls are older now - and have since added other skills (like Cosmetic Make up and Hair Styling) to their repertoire. This blog features highlights from their activities in the various vocations.
'Temi (11) & Oluoma (8) are sisters who (with support from their family) use creative low cost recipes & a charcoal stove pot to bake cookies for sale.
This microbusiness venture began as a “skills acquisition project” Temi asked their Dad to let her do, after seeing videos of home made cookies baking. The girls learnt to make the cookies by watching Youtube videos by hobbyists/experts in the USA.
But unlike those in the videos they watched, the girls emulate their brothers
(who make Pineapple peel based drinks and cakes) by , using a charcoal stove and pot for baking - I.e no oven!
They do this because they are being challenged, to learn to employ create thinking to start where they are, with what they have, by using low cost methods to create low cost products they can sell to peers and others.
That experience will prepare them to make prudent use of money they make to scale up their operations over time.
Read more on their Facebook page at https://web.facebook.com/TemiandOluomasCharcoalStoveBaking/photos/a.223708467977727.1073741828.223656374649603/223709974644243/?type=3
Temiloluwa (15) and Oluomachukwu (12) – guided by their mentor Ada, CEO of Ada Unique Saloon – shared their knowledge, skills and experience with attendees via practical step by step demonstrations.
It was a great – maiden – outing on Saturday 1st May 2021 at Ada Unique Saloon’s No. 5 Akinremi Street, Anifowoshe -Ikeja, Lagos premises.
This VIDEO (see below) features highlights from the LIVE event and is in 7 parts:
This PUNCH Newspaper headline [Reps approve compulsory vocational studies in secondary school] is proof that we’re winning – at least on THIS front, and at long last too.
Only a few weeks ago, I attended a follow up meeting with senior officials at the Ministry of Education, who had invited the Chairman of the State Parents Forum to discuss with me.
TO INVITE TEMI AND OLUOMA to run a FREE CLINIC, for groups of kids in your area, text your Request details PLUS Name, Occupation, Location, Email Address and WhatsApp number to +234-803-302-1263 or send email to contact@temiandoluoma.com
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This video trailer features:
1. Highlight photos and a video clip from the 1st practice session done – on Tuesday 27th April 2021 – by the girls with their Mentor, the CEO of ADA UNIQUE SALOON located at No. 5 Akinriade Street, Anifowoshe, Ikeja, Lagos.
2. Subtitled playback of a recorded phone Conversation, 2 days later, on 29th April – when Ada spoke with Temi after seeing photos of the 2nd practice session done by the girls at home.
Temiloluwa (15) and Oluomachukwu (12) started learning hairstyling with doll heads in 2018 as apprentices, then moved on to styling one another’s hair, and today are able to style client’s hair to get paid.
It’s not been easy to get them this far. We have had to deal with various challenges – some from the most unexpected quarters, but the girls’ love and undying passion for hairstyling has really helped to keep them on track.
After yet another challenge had kept them from hairstyling practice, from mid-2020 right into April 2021, I finally settled on an Action Plan to implement my idea of getting them invited to host a coaching clinic.
When Samuel, the CEO of SACAJ COMPANY NIGERIA LIMITED (where I do my magazine printing) learned I was looking for a saloon to partner with to host the girls’ maiden coaching clinic, he immediately recommended Ada Unique Saloon – noting that he was personally aware of at least ten kids she’d trained in the past.
By the time I met and spoke with the CEO of the saloon (i.e Ada), sharing the vision I had for my girls, and explaining the unique challenges they’ve faced since they began learning from back in 2018, I could see her passion driven interest was triggered.
Not surprisingly, when she met the girls on Tuesday (27th April 2021) for the first time she did not hold back. In less than an hour, she’d taken them through the steps required to create amazingly beautiful, yet low cost hairstyles using simple, commonly available tools.
My girls went home excited, and two days later produced photos (and videos – which will be posted later) showing they really grabbed it!
Ada was very impressed – and as you will hear in the second half of this video, commended them during the phone conversation she had with ‘Temi.
Tomorrow (i.e. Saturday 1st May 2021) is the Big Day for their first ever mobile “FREE BASIC HAIRSTYLING CLINIC FOR KIDS” (8 TO 15 YEARS).
They will be demonstrating to attendees who have already pre-registered (ages from 6 to 16) using the techniques they were coached on by Ada, in conjunction with braiding skills they already have from years of practice.
We are ALL excited & looking forward to a great outing.
Full videos and photos from start to finish will be uploaded to their own YouTube channel, which I will setup after the training.
The videos and photos will also be posted in a blog on http://www.temiandoluoma.com [Sisters With Skills]
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TO INVITE TEMI AND OLUOMA to run a FREE CLINIC, for groups of kids in your area, text your Request details PLUS Name, Occupation, Location, Email Address and WhatsApp number to +234-803-302-1263 or send email to contact@temiandoluoma.com
Produced by http://www.tksola.com for Temi and Oluomachukwu SOLAGBADE. This is the maiden edition of a video series I’ve launched for my Best Practice Parenting and Schooling (BPPS) Mini-Magazine based on what I’m doing for my kids.
The original concept was developed within the first month of my relocating to Cotonou in April 2013.
Part 1: LAGOS-NIGERIA | Tuesday, 26th November 2019
I took my girls (13 & 10 years old at the time) out to lunch – picked them up from school with a change of clothes. The photos & videos you’re about to see describe how we spent our day.
TIP: Visit their website at www.temiandoluoma.com [Sisters With Skills™] to learn more about their progress.
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PART 2 – COMING SOON!
Features highlights of our dinner outing at Westgate + our visit – via Lagos BRT – to Ikeja Computer Village & PANIC/DRAMA on the evening of 31/12/2020 when the girls run out of Crochet to finish Oluoma’s hairdo!!
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Article Written By Tayo K. Solagbade [Submitted to Ezinearticles.com On June 11, 2008]
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read or write. They will be those who cannot learn, unlearn or re-learn.” – Alvin Toffler
Preamble
Many people today, who have undergone formal schooling, do not have life survival skills, having only acquired learning for school (i.e. academic education), which they do not KNOW how to apply usefully in the real world.
We already know from years of recent history that it is no longer necessarily those who do well in school that go on to achieve success in life. It used to be so, when paid employment was the primary destination for people who finished school/learning.
LAGOS- NIGERIA @12 Noon, Wednesday 27th November 2019: Photo-Story – Yesterday (Tuesday, 26th November 2019), I took my girls (13 and 10 years old) out to lunch – picked them up from school with a change of clothes. The ten photos below describe how we spent our day.
By way of interest, the 13 year old recently got selected by the school administration to represent them in a Hair-styling Competition where she will also teach other kids.
The girl has been excited – understandably. She came to tell me 2 days ago, asking for money to buy the attachments and other stuff she’s been told will be required at the event.
I’m super excited too, because I know this opportunity will cement their interest in the vocation.
A year later they enrolled to apprentice at another stylist’s shop closer home.
The rest is history – as they are now competent doing various styles – and take turns to work on each others hair to do whatever hairstyle their school announce for each week.
Their boss recently told me the older girl is now able to take on paying customers without supervision.
No. 1 of 10:
Here we were getting close to our destination, then I remembered I wanted photos of them wearing these African prints I bought for them on Victoria Island,on my way to the Immigration (Passport) Office at Ikoyi.
No. 2 of 10
Selfie at the same landmark as in Photo 1 of 10. They still did not know where I was taking them. A busy school day had them looking a bit tired. By the time we got to our destination, they came alive…and I teased them about it…LOL!
The photos in the slideshow linked below show Oluoma, my 9 year old girl (recovering from a bout of Mumps) plaiting her older sister’s hair in the style for school.
A visit to their school led to Oluoma’s teacher’s discussion with me about the need for them to come with the right hairstyle to school in the new week. So, on Sunday 28th October, after they returned from church, I got Oluoma to plait Temi’s hair. The exercise lasted about 1.5 hours – but that was due to distractions. I know from watching them work, that it could have been done in well under ONE hour, by either of them.
Like I told someone few months ago, the girls have now achieved a level of what is called UNCONSCIOUS COMPETENCE, and it’s only a matter of time before they attain full mastery. This has been confirmed by their respective hair-styling trainers.
Oluoma has not achieved perfection, but her finished work is more than presentable.
Little wonder that Temi wore THIS hairstyle to school ALL week without getting any negative comments from the school.
Apart from hair styling. the girls and their brothers bake various confectionaries e.g. cake, cookies, pizza, bread, chin-chin, puff-puff in addition to making drinks from pineapple peels which they even sold in their former school.
Oluoma has also reared snails on a micro scale since August 2017 (click here to read true story), selling N500’s worth in Dec. 2017. This year she has over 70 snails and is looking to sell much more.
I was VERY PROUD of my girls for doing this public service, using one of several skills they possess.
It is said that one of the best ways to one of the best ways to get better at something you know is to teach it. Teaching forces you go out your way to fill in any gaps you may in your know-how, because you’ll want to make sure your learner “gets it”!
I’ve found this to be true and I’m using it to help my kids to take their mastery to the next level (this includes their baking, hairstyling etc).!
See below, the video clip from the event “How to Make Drinks You CAN SELL from Peels of Pineapples” showing my 2 daughters (12 and 9 years old) – supported by me – Tayo K. Solagbade – facilitating in Ognumaki in community, Ogun State on Sat. 14th April 2018!” – under the auspices of B.H.F Foundation
Facilitators: Temi (12) & Oluoma (9) Solagbade [supported by Tayo K. Solagbade]
Organiser: BHF Foundation [3 Day Youth Conference]
BELOW: Read the full story, watch the video and view photos from the event
Video clip from the event “How to Make Drinks You CAN SELL from Peels of Pineapples” showing my 2 daughters (12 and 9 years old) – supported by me – facilitating in Ognumaki in community, Ogun State on Sat. 14th April 2018!” – under the auspices of B.H.F Foundation
Facilitators: Temi (12) & Oluoma (9) Solagbade [supported by Tayo K. Solagbade]
Organiser: BHF Foundation [3 Day Youth Conference]
I was VERY PROUD of my girls for doing this public service, using one of several skills they possess.
It is said that one of the best ways to one of the best ways to get better at something you know is to teach it. Teaching forces you go out your way to fill in any gaps you may in your know-how, because you’ll want to make sure your learner “gets it”!
I’ve found this to be true and I’m using it to help my kids to take their mastery to the next level (this includes their baking, hairstyling etc).
Below: Photo showing the girls eating cooked corn (near the Oba’s palace) when we arrived Ogunmakin in the morning (about 9a.m). The CEO of B.H.F Foundation eventually came to pick us up and drove the venure.
The girls had fun – and it was an exciting experience for them to share what they knew with adults – and more importantly to do so in such a rural setting.