The Slum Project is the brainchild of Adeola, a GIS consultant, Drone expert, and Mentor to young girls who desire to grow in the drone technology/photography/videography and GIS space. There are over 500 slums in the Lagos metropolis and as such it poses a threat to the residents. There are lots of vulnerable children especially young girls who are molested and exposed to sex at a tender age. My Slum project is to save as many vulnerable children by helping them channel their youthful energy to a goodly cause. Many of these children are born and raised in these slums, some migrated to Lagos without a plan and ended up living in the slum. Growing up in a slum comes with its downsides which include unhindered access to drugs, illicit sex, absence of education, unruly behaviours, absence of parental guidance and control and lots more. COVID-19 ACTIVITY With our meagre resources with the support of family and friends, we are reaching out to these slums one at a time. In April 2020, in the heat of the lockdown, we visited a slum at General Paint near The Lagos Business School, there, we distributed food and relief materials to over 160 families out of the over 700 shelters in the slum. We started teaching some young girls and ladies crafts such as Soap Making, Fashion Designing, Hair Dressing and a few who showed interest in Technology are taught drone operations and applications, Microblogging, Videography and editing and photography. OBJECTIVE 1. To raise a set of visionary girls who will become a source of inspiration and influence on others 2. To train and expose young girls to drone and mapping technology 3. To train and equip them with globally acceptable skills 4. To save as many from falling into a distasteful lifestyle of drug abuse, prostitution and other vices TARGET AUDIENCE 1. Young and Vulnerable girls living in the slums 2. Young girls within the age of 14-18 The Covid-19 relief material was done with the support of Asseco Nigeria Limited

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With over 500 slums in different communities in Lagos, and with a lean budget, we can only take out activity one slum at a time. We plan to wrap up activities at the General Paint slum and move to Gedegede slum (close to Mega Chicken Ikate Lekki). It is worthy to note that there was a great resistance in the early days as every act of welfare or support is viewed as suspicious due to the nefarious activities that occur in the Slum. Dwellers are careful from communicating so that the 'Captains' won't evict them. Dwellers pay N1000 (less than $3) per month to live in the shanty. The 'Captains' cautioned against recording them or taking their pictures due to the activities in the slum, after several months, they relaxed their resistance but we still had to thread with caution. By October 2020, we will move to Gedegede Slum and continually follow up on the trained girls at General Paint.

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