{"id":22800,"date":"2023-03-22T06:17:33","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T06:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edugist.org\/?p=22800"},"modified":"2023-03-22T06:17:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T06:17:33","slug":"unilag-admits-girl-who-supports-family-through-hawking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edugist.org\/unilag-admits-girl-who-supports-family-through-hawking\/","title":{"rendered":"UNILAG admits girl who supports family through hawking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A path to a prosperous future has been paved for Makinde Elizabeth, a young girl who used to sell assorted items on the streets of Lagos despite coming from a low-income family.<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth became a Twitter sensation when she caught the attention of the founder of Tech in Slums Africa.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22802\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22802\" style=\"width: 837px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-22802 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/edugist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230321_123742.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"837\" height=\"1256\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/edugist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230321_123742.jpg 837w, https:\/\/edugist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230321_123742-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/edugist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230321_123742-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/edugist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230321_123742-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/edugist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230321_123742-600x900.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 837px) 100vw, 837px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22802\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Makinde Elizabeth during chess competition.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tunde Onakoya, the founder of Tech In Slums Africa, revealed that he first encountered her in 2021 while she was hawking biscuits beneath the Oshodi Bridge in Lagos. After joining his project to get kids off the streets through chess, she was given the chance to continue her education.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that despite Elizabeth and her mother\u2019s lack of housing, Elizabeth expressed interest in attending school.<\/p>\n<p>Tunde added that he paid for her entrance exams, which she completed so well that she was granted admission to the University of Lagos to pursue a degree in history and education.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22804\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22804\" style=\"width: 1016px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-22804 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/edugist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230321_123732.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1016\" height=\"762\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/edugist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230321_123732.jpg 1016w, https:\/\/edugist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230321_123732-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/edugist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230321_123732-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/edugist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230321_123732-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1016px) 100vw, 1016px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22804\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CAPS Showing Elizabeth&#8217;s Admission<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He wrote; \u201cElizabeth was hawking biscuits under Oshodi bridge with her Mum when we met her in 2021. They didn\u2019t have a place to live but she wanted to go to school so we paid for her exams.<\/p>\n<p>Today, she gained admission into Unilag to study education and history. I\u2019m not crying, I promise Hope is everything. Okay, let\u2019s help Elizabeth settle into undergraduate life with ease. They still don\u2019t have a place to live and she still does menial jobs (cleaning homes and offices) to support her mother.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22805\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22805\" style=\"width: 576px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-22805 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/edugist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230321_123736.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/edugist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230321_123736.jpg 576w, https:\/\/edugist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230321_123736-169x300.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22805\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth&#8217;s NECO results<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We\u2019re still fully committed to paying her tuition through University but I think at this point, she needs a female mentor more than anything else. Please send @iamainembabazi a message if you can commit some time to mentor her. We can\u2019t stop believing.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22806\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22806\" style=\"width: 1080px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-22806 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/edugist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_20230321_123902.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1868\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/edugist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_20230321_123902.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/edugist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_20230321_123902-173x300.jpg 173w, https:\/\/edugist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_20230321_123902-592x1024.jpg 592w, https:\/\/edugist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_20230321_123902-768x1328.jpg 768w, https:\/\/edugist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_20230321_123902-888x1536.jpg 888w, https:\/\/edugist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_20230321_123902-600x1038.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22806\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tunde Onakoya&#8217;s Tweet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A path to a prosperous future has been paved for Makinde Elizabeth, a young girl who used to sell assorted items on the streets of Lagos despite coming from a low-income family. Elizabeth became a Twitter sensation when she caught the attention of the founder of Tech in Slums Africa. Tunde Onakoya, the founder of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":22802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[3552],"class_list":["post-22800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-school-scoops"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edugist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22800"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edugist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edugist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edugist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edugist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22800"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/edugist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22808,"href":"https:\/\/edugist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22800\/revisions\/22808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edugist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edugist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edugist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edugist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}