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The Cakasa Ebenezer Foundation is supporting over 100 teenage girls who graduated from the Summer Leadership Camp with bursaries and STEM mentoring.
The girls from low-income families in Education District IV, Yaba, graduated in Lagos from the 2026 edition of the Girls Leadership and Mentoring (GLAM) camp, organised by Ornaments of Grace and Virtue Initiative (OGAV).
The camp was held from August 10 to 14 at Lagos City Senior College, Yaba. This year’s edition, with the theme “Who Am I,” offered the girls a safe alternative to unsupervised holidays, guiding them through career exploration and helping them to begin navigating pathways to the careers they choose for themselves.
The camp was supported by Cakasa Ebenezer Foundation (CEF), which fielded two female engineers at the camp’s Career Fair to share their career journeys and encourage the girls toward careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).
The foundation also gave a one-off bursary gesture to seven deserving students for the current 2026/2027 school session.
Speaking at the closing ceremony, CEF Executive Director, Mrs. Helen Egbe, said: “It is one thing to tell a girl she can become an engineer, a scientist, a leader. It is another thing entirely for her to sit across from a woman who already is one.”
She urged the girls to see the visiting engineers as a mirror of their own future, adding that empowering girls goes beyond financial assistance, extending to knowledge, mentorship and exposure.
OGAV President and Founder, Mrs. Busola Kolade, thanked CEF and other partners for their collaboration, noting that this year’s edition marked the organisation’s first GLAM camp in Education District IV.
CEF is the corporate social responsibility arm of Cakasa (Nigeria) Company Limited, supporting education, personal development and empowerment initiatives for young people.
