Pledge to make a difference, together.
The Global Integrated Education Volunteers Association, Inc. (GIEVA Organization) is a Youth-Centered Education Empowerment Non-Governmental Organization registered and incorporated. It is committed to empowering the Nigerian youth specifically and young African leaders in general for constructive engagement and sustainable future through education, cultural exchange, advocacy, and volunteerism. It works to build global platforms for young leaders to develop innovative skills through leadership development and entrepreneurial programs.
GIEVA Organization fosters and facilitates the preparation and inspiration of new generation of young leaders for constructive engagement through integrative platforms, networks, and partnership.
GIEVA Organization believes, a sustainable future with integrated development depends on total education and mobilization of the youth anchored on platforms of entrepreneurship, innovations, and inclusion.
GIEVA MISSION is to create an atmosphere of tolerance, foster cooperation and mutual understanding; build platforms for shared values, creativity, and innovation; facilitate inclusive entrepreneurial initiatives, and appreciation of environment through education, and cultural exchange.
The Aims and Purposes of the Global Integrated Education Volunteers Association (GIEVA) Include:
1. Establish community learning and information technology center to facilitate formation of volunteer network groups in schools and community organizations. 2. Establish Leadership, Advising & Mentoring Programs (LAMP) to develop and attract Nigeria students/youth with academic, leadership, artistic, musical, creative writing, and sport potentials 3. Build platforms for partnership with educational institutions, testing organizations, government agencies, other, non-governmental organizations with similar objectives, and individuals to share information resources through networking and supports. 4. Build and operate GIEVA Scholarship Funds (GSF) to support creative and innovative young leaders in achieving educational and leadership potentials in the service of humanity; 5. Provide holistic educational advising and learning opportunities for undergraduate, graduate, professional studies, and study abroad programs anywhere in the world. 6. Provide opportunities and be an advocate for physically challenged young leaders through advising and mentoring programs; 7. Promote community health and environmental awareness programs to address health challenges among the youth. 8. Facilitate and promote youth entrepreneurship programs to stimulate innovation and creative businesses for young leaders 9. Support and encourage platforms for people's participation in the protection of environment and sustainable developmental process.
The aims are carried out by designing different programs: In ITS last 7 years, GIEVA established and started carrying out the following projects and programs:
A. Creative Hands in Organizational Innovations for Constructive Education & Sustainability (CHOICES)
CHOICES is an educational youth empowerment program designed to re-shape the lifestyle of students at secondary and tertiary education levels in Nigeria through club meetings, leadership training, skill training, skill acquisition, talent identification. It is a program to: a. Assist in orientating the young African leaders imbibe the values of volunteerism and giving back to the community through group projects, communal appreciation of clean environment through waste management strategies. b. Improve the quality of education at all levels in Africa through group learning, group research, and legislative policy advocacy. c. Create platforms for members to have access to networking resources and interaction with other similar youth groups in other part of the world.
The CHOICES program was designed 2010 as an ONGOING platform for establishment of CHOICES Clubs in Secondary Schools, tertiary institutions, and community organizations to: a. Enhance illiteracy reduction of school drop-out prevalent in most member schools; b. Provide information communication technology (ICT) training and encourages active learning among club members and appreciation of the values of technology in learning. c. Become a creative tool for gender equality and the empowerment of the girl-child for self-realization d. Reduce the rate of sexually transmitted diseases among young people through the club's advocacy and public awareness education. e. Offers opportunities for global competitiveness through educational products and competitions f. Assists in identifying young academic, leadership, sports, and artistic talents leading to plans to establishments of advanced placement courses in schools where there are CHOICES Club. g. Inspire the Club alumni to become advocate and tools for inclusion and strengthening for entrepreneurship academic programs at Secondary schools.
B. Holistic Education Advising and Learning Services (HEALS) GIEVA -HEALS Project was designed in 2017 as an ONGOING Holistic Educational Advising and Learning Services (HEALS) as a platform for building collaborative/cooperative efforts anchored on partnership. It is also to create mutual values for university communities, students, parents, and other strategic partners with a sense of working together for a culture of inclusion and strategic sustainable development.
The HEALS' partnership program is designed with core purposes: 1. To place Nigerian/African Students in highly accredited colleges and universities anywhere in the world.
2. To build platform for partnership with Colleges/Universities, Education-centered Not-for Profit Organizations, and parents to place students with outstanding academic, leadership, artistic, and musical Potentials based on international standard best practices.
1. To facilitate recruitment/placement tours of admission officers from other countries in touch with academically outstanding students in high schools in Nigeria.
2. To establish and facilitate benchmark standards for students' interns, summer camp participants, and volunteer services.
3. To initiate future Young African Leadership movement with global relevance through educational exchange. 4. To initiate the preparation of Nigerian High School graduate students to engage in Advanced Placement Program while waiting for college/university admissions.
5. To strengthen the platform for the placement of first-degree graduate students from Nigeria universities to pursue graduate studies in other part of the world.
GIEVA -HEALS Platform annually identifies, advises, mentors, between 10,000 to 15000 students in various academic institutions throughout the world.
C. GIEVA -Sustainable Transformative Education Projects ( G-STEP)
Its G-STEP recruits and prepares candidates for Advanced Placement Program for students with outstanding academic, leadership, sporting, and other artistic potentials for low income families.
The program is designed to enhance the ability of young leaders/students to successfully navigate through a twenty-first century college and career choices. It also enables them to enter the university/4-Year College at advance level competitively and play effective roles in an increasingly integrated world. GIEVA Organization administers, monitors and evaluates the status of SAT, ACT, and TOEFL Testing Integrity throughout Nigeria
GIEVA Organization is privileged to work with:
1. Educational Testing Service (ETS)- a US-based Education Nonprofit Organization in the last 15 years as The International Representative for SAT in Nigeria
2. American College Test (ACT) - a US-based Education Nonprofit Organization whose core mission is to advance quality and equity in education by providing fair and valid assessments and research. The products measure knowledge, skills, promote learning, and performance.
3. EDIFACE, a UK Based Online Learning Delivery Platform to enhance and inspire students' effective online learning and to train teachers on how to engage and network productively with online teaching resources and educators world wide.