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Ijeoma Sorochi Okorie, Founder of Teenz Global with some teenagers during the POMP Project �POMP has taught me to ignore negative thoughts� Ani Ifeanyi - 16yrs �POMP is a program that has helped me in different ways such as my academics and my behaviour � I no longer fight in School; I respect my mother and run errands for her now; I have also detached from bad friends and chosen good friends that have similar goals like me� Olu Gift Ehi - 12yrs �My POMP experience has transformed my character, I am no more arrogant and stubborn to my parents at home and teachers at school� Samson Jonathan - 15yrs �Through POMP, I have learned how to think positively, focus on my studies and control my anger� Philip Pius - 16yrs �I am so happy to be in the POMP Project, it is one of the best experience of my life so far, I have formed a renewed mindset� Andrew Atewe - 13yrs �POMP has helped me in pulling down strongholds, controlling my mind and focusing on positive thoughts. I rarely get angry anymore...

CHILD LABOR: ISSUES, CAUSES AND INTERVENTIONS Child labor is a pervasive problem throughout the world, especially in developing Countries. Africa and Asia together account for over 90 percent of total child employment. Child labor is especially prevalent in rural areas where the capacity to enforce minimum age requirements for schooling and work is lacking. Child labour: Child labour is a much narrower concept and refers to children working in contravention of ILO standards contained in Conventions 138 and 182. This means all children below 12 years of age working in any economic activities, those aged between 12 and 14 engaged in more than light work, and all children engaged in the worst forms of child labour. Children work for a variety of reasons, the most important being poverty and the induced pressure upon them to escape from this plight. Though children are not well paid, they still serve as major contributors to family income in developing countries. Schooling problems also co...

Arrival of Participants Culture of Peace and Values of Citizenship was the theme of the 4 th Edition of the Teenz Nigeria project implemented by the Teenz Global Foundation in collaboration with the FCT Social Development Secretariat, Independent National Electoral Commission and other partners. The program was well attended, as 34 schools participated with over 640 teenagers, 71 teachers and 120 adults. Ms. Glory Onyekwere, the TN 2016 Project Manager, in her speech, said that this was aimed at harnessing peaceful values inbimbed in various Nigerian culture and to promote peaceful coexistence among young people using Indigenous languages. Since inception, Teenz Global Foundation, a duly registered non-governmental organization founded in June 2011 has been complementing the efforts of Education, Media, Health and Development departments; local implementing partners, International Aid Agencies and Civil Society organizations; in providing high-impact approaches to meet the urgent, ...

The reason Teenagers Think, feel and act like they know It All What makes it all and why do they have to be so mean and disrespectful? There is hardly anything as exasperating as a teen child rolling her eyes and saying �whatever� as she walks off to her room and her mum being so angry, would make an expression such as �Arrr!!! Wait until you have children of your own and see how it feels� I choose to use a girl child for my illustration because I am a girl and also a teenager. It is not surprising that I am hormonal, dramatic, a lovely young woman in the making and I would probably grow up being wonderful. However, the years between adorable toddlers and wonderful compassionate adults are often trying, to say the least. To examine teenagers, go back to the 3 year old whose favorite word is NO, add ten years and an assortment of hormones and you have proud, wise, stubborn, strong teenagers who think their parents are anti-Christ; sure it is hormones and they were all created with them...