22/10/2024
On behalf of the team and the foundation, Ropo and F***y we are glad to announce that one of the street kids who also was a beneficiary of the Street2School Initiative passed his WAEC with flying colours.
A quick back story. In one of our efforts at reaching out to street kids back in my University days at the University of Ilorin, we met Zakariyah Abdulateef in 2016, whose hope of furthering his academics was on the verge of being dashed due to the finances of his parents. This is a boy who did awesomely well in his first school leaving examination but all was about vanishing into thin air due to how poverty had a grasp on his future right before his face.
However, faith and fate were faithful to us to coincidentally meet him walking down the street during school hours and boom I brokered a conversation with him and the rest were history.
Abdulateef has shown himself to be a young lad who was not ready to joke with an opportunity to have a shot at education and he has proved himself a worthy example for other street kids out there. From joining his colleagues in the middle of the term to being their timekeeper, and prefect and passing his waec with 1 A, 6B and 2C in all the subjects he sat for is beyond astonishing.
Thank God we didn't give up and let this talent waste on the street of Ilorin. Abdulateef said he wants to study medicine and in future be a doctor. This, we would support God's willing. We would love to say that Abdulateef is a worthy ambassador to all kids out there and to those who might think they are vulnerable and rely solely on what the street determines. Also, this is a call to that we have a lot of Abdulateef roaming the street in Ilorin who need someone to take them up or else their shine dims.
Thanks to the following person and many others who had made this a reality
