Temi & Oluoma Learning (& Teaching) Income Earning Vocational Skills
As usual, a digital (PDF) version will be posted at www.tksola.com for FREE download by interested persons.
I continue to distribute both print and digital versions to selected target individuals, groups and organizations.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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
RELATED RESOURCE
Read: [BPPS] Reps approve compulsory vocational studies in secondary school – PUNCH NEWSPAPER REPORT
REWARDING MY GIRLS!
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.
Watch the video – CLICK HERE NOW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ADv8BW9DeU&feature=youtu.be
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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Watch this video trailer – click www.discovercotonou.com/jcsi-ifeanyi – to learn more about the training session.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
