The Smart Kids idea came about from watching through the windows a lot of public school pupils idle during school hours and a hunger to do something about their needs. As it will happen, we were nominated for an IVLP trip by the United States Government and on this trip we visited an organization – KidSmart USA, that gathered surplus educational materials from the host communities to give to the public schools. The experience was the motivation we needed to start.

Please click here to view our latest pictures, they tell a little story of our impact. We have also put below, profiles of some of our alumni, to let you know we are talking about real people.

We teach our students a ‘No Waste Strategy’ –

- Over 50% have started their own businesses and become employers of labour.

- About 25% have started training sessions for others at home.

- About 15% have gone to work for bigger business owners with the same line of trade.

- About 25% are mentoring at FSD.

This is a unique opportunity to benefit from The Central bank of Nigeria’s EDT project.

The training project is to empower small and medium scale entrepreneurs with skills to access loans, set up viable businesses and grows their existing businesses.

Foundation for Skills Development was nominated by The Africa Leadership Forum (the CBN’s Project Partner on EDT) to run the training in its premises at Ikeja.