The day started with a hiccup LOL! The girls were late to our agreed meeting point at Zenith Bank, so they had to find their way down to the salon on their own by bus (I’d already left on the BRT bus to ensure I did not keep the Salon CEO waiting, knowing she’d have tried to free herself from appointments to host us).
DOWNLOAD FULL AUDIO-TO-PDF TRANSCRIPT OF THE SESSION:
1. Poor audio in the videos recorded due to background noise and my failure to setup the wireless lapel microphones before we started.
2. Thankfully, I captured the entire interaction with my smartphone voice recorder and a print-ready PDF transcript version will be posted for download by interested persons on www.temiandoluoma.com. To get notified when it become available for download, subscribe to the Sisters With Skills (SWS) Newsletter Mailing List via https://www.tinyurl.com/sws-fb-form
Mobile Hairstyling Helps Us Serve Multiple Clients, While Saving Time & Money: A CHAT WITH TEMILOLUWA – Teamleader, Sisters With Skills (SWS), Mobile Hairstylists 6th Jan 2024
On 6th January 2024, Temi – one half of the Sisters With Skills (SWS)™ team – sat down to answer questions about learning professional hairstyling from when she was 11 years old and going on to earn income now at 18 years of age, using the skills she acquired.
TIP: The PDF TRANSCRIPT ends with a “USEFUL RESOURCES” section featuring clickable links to other interesting videos and PDF reports about SWS™ from 2018 till date…
1. [BPPS] Teen Sisters (15 & 12) PRACTICE for their 1st Mobile Hairstyling Experience Sharing Clinic for Kids!
2. Highlights:1st Mobile Hairstyling Experience Sharing Clinic by Kids for Kids Host: Ada Unique Saloon
3. [NOW LIVE] VIDEO: The Full Story Of How Two Sisters (12 & 9 years Old) Got Invited to Show Housewives, Undergraduates & Youths, How to Make Drinks You CAN SELL from Peels of Pineapples – In Ogun State on Sat. 14th April 2018!
4. [NEW LAW!] Vocational Subjects to Mainstream…into Nigeria’s Core Educational System from JSS1 to SSS3, Transforming Secondary Schools into ‘Skill Acquisition Centres’ | Best Practice Parenting & Schooling Newsletter/Mini-Magazine – BPPS NO. 004 OF 15TH MAY 2021 [PDF]
5. True Story: Fun Outings (PART 1) To Reward My 2 Multi-Skilled Daughters – Temi and Oluoma – Who Combine DAILY Schooling With Vocational Skills Training
6. VIDEO: 21 Year Old Reveals Secrets You Need to Achieve Success Making Braided Wigs [Ifeanyi (21) Trains Temi (14) & Oluoma (11)!]
7. IS YOUR CHILD LEARNING FOR SCHOOL OR FOR LIFE?
8. [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
Temi and her sister, Oluoma, are both trained hairstylists – having apprenticed under 3 different Professional Stylists from 2018 into early 2024. They offer On-Demand Mobile Hairstyling Services, as well as periodic street-based FREE promotional braiding solutions.
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
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!
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