To attain extra underserved communities, Ashoka Africa has expanded its Changemaking Training (CTEACH) Community with 102 graduates and 400 new inductees in Lagos.
CTEACH, a year-long instructor coaching programme developed with the beneficiant help of Swiss Haute Horlogerie producer, Audemars Piguet, is a part of the worldwide Time for Change initiative applied by First Ebook, Ashoka and Train for All supporting younger individuals in under-resourced communities to develop into changemakers.
In Nigeria, CTEACH positions lecturers as the important thing driver for nurturing changemaking amongst their college students, equipping them to domesticate empathy, management, and artistic problem-solving to guide options of their faculties and communities.
Launched in September 2023, CTEACH quickly advanced from idea to nationwide activation fuelled by Audemars Piguet’s catalytic help. Since then, the programme has constructed a rising ecosystem of educators embedding the Everybody a Changemaker (EACH) imaginative and prescient in faculties in Lagos State, unlocking scholar management and driving a systemic shift in Nigeria’s schooling sector from conventional educating fashions to student-led, community-rooted innovation.
On the weekend, the CTEACH Commencement and Induction Ceremony in Lagos celebrated two main programme milestones; commencement of Cohort 2, with over 100 lecturers who internalise, combine and implement changemaking of their lecture rooms and communities in addition to induction of Cohort 3, welcoming 400 new lecturers who start their transformative journeys as changemaker educators.
This yr’s CTEACH theme, ‘Internalise, Combine, Implement Changemaking’,reinforces the trail lecturers take as they embrace changemaking as a private philosophy, embed it into classroom tradition, and implement it as a driver of community-wide change.
The programme empowers lecturers as “Changemaker Makers,” fostering scholar company and a tradition of innovation. Lagos now serves because the blueprint for CTEACH’s enlargement throughout Nigeria, Kenya, Senegal, and South Africa,” says Angelou Ezeilo, Co-President and CTEACH Director.
Ezeilo stated the 102 Junior Secondary lecturers from six districts throughout Lagos State have launched into a change-making journey and have been geared up with instruments and mindset shifts in order that they’ll instill in themselves and of their college students the ability of change-making.
She careworn that their college students can now determine issues, have acutely aware empathy for the great of all, perceive new management, not only a hierarchical top-down, however the ability of working in groups and working towards change-making.
A participant, Dr Peace Sule, a recipient of the 2025 African Union (AU) Continental Lecturers’ Award for the West Africa area, extolled Ashoka for the coaching within the 4 pillars of changemaking; empathy, shared management, teamwork and taking motion.
Bankole Igbekele, a devoted Arithmetic and Science instructor with over six years of expertise at Ojokoro Junior Excessive College, thanked Ashoka for the chance to upscale his educating abilities in 4 pillars of change making, speaking about empathy, teamwork, change making management and alter making motion. He urged the federal government to keep away from politicising schooling with a reference to the brand new curriculum.
