[BPP-PhotoStory] Sisters-With-Skills: A Day Out With 2 Multi-Skilled Sisters (13 and 10 years old) Who Combine DAILY Formal Schooling With Vocational Skills Training

[BPP-PhotoStory] Sisters-With-Skills: A Day Out With 2 Multi-Skilled Sisters (13 and 10 years old) Who Combine DAILY Formal Schooling With Vocational Skills Training

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.

It all seems like yesterday, but they’ve actually been apprenticing now for over 2 years, starting back in 2017, when they attended a 2 week long intensive Vocational Skills Training on Cosmetic Make Up and Gele Tying, after which they chose to have me enroll them for hair-styling training at Mushin.

Graduation Day at the 2 week Cosmetic Makeup and Gele Tying Workshop [Re: Empower Your Daughter to be Her Own Boss With Minimal Resources Via Vocation She Can Build on to Excel]

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!

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TemiAndOluoma

Website: http://www.temiandoluoma.com

ABOUT TEMI AND OLUOMA Temi & Oluoma are sisters who learn income earning vocational skills, which they actively put to use in the real world, and also share with others, by teaching those interested in learning. Examples: 1. (From the early days back in 2014), creating low cost recipes using a charcoal stove pot to bake cookies, cakes, "African-Style" Pizza, Soft-and-Fluffy bread etc. This microbusiness baking venture began as a “skills acquisition project” Temi asked their Dad to let her do, after seeing videos of homemade 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 emulated their brothers (who were taught by their Dad to make Pineapple peel based drinks and cakes) by using a charcoal stove and pot for baking I.e no oven! This trained them 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. 2. From 2018 to the first quarter of 2024, the girls have apprenticed as hairstylists in three different salons (Mushin, Ikeja and Saabo-Ojodu-Berger), and today earn income Doing Business As (DBA) "Sisters With Skills (SWS) - Mobile Hairstylists". In 2021 they partnered with the CEO of Ada Unique Salon in Anfowoshe-Ikeja to conduct a one-day Coaching Clinic for Teenagers and Kids. Today, they offer On-Demand Mobile Hairstyling Services, as well as periodic street- based FREE promotional braiding solutions for selected clients. FILL AND SUBMIT THE FORM BELOW TO LEARN MORE: Go to https://www.tinyurl.com/sws-ci-form

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