Hi all :)
It's been nearly two years since I last posted on this blog (hides
face 🙈). The prospect of me losing it jerked me out of my complacency. One of
the things that happened in between was the founding of my businesses,
LiLyVille Enterprises and LiLyVille Educational Consultancy (LEC). You
can visit LiLyVille.biz to read more about them. I made an
appeal on Facebook on 16th August 2019 as I wanted to host an event in Abuja. I
literally copied and pasted what I wrote therein as you'll read below:
I'm Lydia, a lecturer in
Biomedical Engineering and Founder, LiLyVille Educational Consultancy (LEC).
You can find out a bit about me professionally on LinkedIn.com/in/lydiajilantikiri and
lightheartedly on ndagilaya.com. I want to organise a FREE
CAREER SEMINAR for young people (especially teenagers but other ages are
welcome to attend) and their parents in Abuja early September 2019 by God’s
Grace and I need your help to make it happen via partnerships/sponsorships with
the following please:
1. Venue: Indoor furnished with
chairs and audiovisual equipment like microphones, projector and screens etc.
2. Publicity: E-flyers, hard copy flyers, sponsored posts, radio jingles, TV adverts, posters and letters to organisations supporting causes like these.
3. Hotel accommodation: The need for this is dependent on guest speakers other than me if such is the case who aren't resident in Abuja.
4. A DJ and an MC.
5. Photography and Videography.
6. Volunteers - Ushers to handle registration, seating arrangements and other duties.
7. Miscellaneous- Decor, Banner, gifts for volunteers and speakers e.t.c.
2. Publicity: E-flyers, hard copy flyers, sponsored posts, radio jingles, TV adverts, posters and letters to organisations supporting causes like these.
3. Hotel accommodation: The need for this is dependent on guest speakers other than me if such is the case who aren't resident in Abuja.
4. A DJ and an MC.
5. Photography and Videography.
6. Volunteers - Ushers to handle registration, seating arrangements and other duties.
7. Miscellaneous- Decor, Banner, gifts for volunteers and speakers e.t.c.
Some background
(quite a read but I assure you, it’s worth it 😁):
I’m someone who is passionate about working with young people
and came to notice this since I was a teenager. As I grew, I realised I
naturally flowed with young people and ‘somehow’, our conversations inevitably
linked with some career talk. I have this tendency to always question their
aspirations and reasons for their prospective career paths and many times,
offer 'unsolicited' advice lol. One thing I've noticed over the years though,
that is the primary reason for youngsters choosing a certain career path is
FASCINATION! This is not bad in itself because we all had some trigger and this
could well be other people's. However, I believe fascination solely isn't a
strong foundation to build a career - something of such magnitude that would
take a considerable chunk of our lives in time and energy deserves more. This
is why I want to host this seminar, to help provide guidance.
This passion
‘burned’ in me over the years that in October 2017 on a flight back to base
after a much-needed break, I was reading a book and really got a flood of
inspiration, so borrowed a pen from the woman next to me and scribbled in the
book I was reading (please always carry along something you can write and/or
record ideas on as you don't determine when inspiration might drop). The
summary is that I wrote letters to four secondary schools, requesting an hour
to hold a career seminar at their schools titled "Choosing a Career and
Mapping your Career Path", with the aim to hold it before December 2017.
Three schools responded positively and the seminar held at two. The principal
of the first school told me that was the best Career seminar he had attended,
whilst the guidance counsellor of the second school really appreciated my
session and invited me back some months later for their career day; I give God
all the glory! 🙌🙌🎉
In 2018, it was like the floodgates opened and I got invitations
to speak at primary and secondary schools, and University fellowships and
associations on topics ranging from Career to Academics. I also assumed duty as
Technical Secretary of my Chapter’s Professional Women Engineers Association
and we went on career outreaches to various secondary schools (please see
attached photos). In July, I hosted a paid WhatsApp seminar under LEC themed
“Being the Informed Graduate” and the feedback was amazing.
I'm putting this up because I've been inspired to hold one in
Abuja (and I don’t live there). My Aunty recently came down with my younger
cousin from Abuja for an exam and was literally, talking to her neighbour on
the phone on the need for parents to know more about the variety of University
courses being offered, Jamb subject combination etc literally when just
earlier, I thought about hosting this event in Abuja; I took this as a sign.
It’s been more than three weeks since I’ve been brewing this and decided to
throw it in the open.
I’m an individual
who aspires to be thorough and deliver excellently in all that I do. I
guarantee you by God’s Grace that after the seminar, you’ll realise that if i
had charged, you’d have been willing to pay at least 5000 naira for the event.
I’m not after the money (although it helps 😜 and
i offer fairly priced paid services too), I’m after impacting lives by
contributing a solution to a problem I have identified. I hope you find this
cause worthy and share with relevant individuals or companies and let’s help
guide our youngsters. Suggestions are welcome please.
Many thanks for
reading my Epistle 😁😘.
Happy Sharing and helping out 😁
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