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In life, there are three categories of people: those who look at what’s happening, those who wonder at what’s happening and those who make things happen! Funmi Omis0pe, the brain behind Home and Street Kids Welfare Initiative, belong to the last category. Her vision is:

” To make life worth living for every child that has lost hope of ever becoming successful in life and have resolved to a life of begging on the streets.” This she has passionately pursued for about a decade now. We have excited to have her as our GUEST OF THE MONTH. In this interview, Funmi shared about vision, passion, motivation and her first book “THE CHANGE AGENT.” Enjoy!

 

 

“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.”

                       Mother Teresa

 Can we meet you?

My name is Funmi Omisope, the Executive Director of Home and Street kids Welfare Initiative (HSKi) I have my first degree in Guidance and counselling from University of Ibadan , Advance Leadership Certificate Course at Daystar Leadership Academy and currently running a Social Sector Management Program at Enterprise Development Center (Lagos Business School).I’m number 5 of 6 children, from Ile-Ife in Osun State, Nigeria.

 Your Organization Home and Street kids Welfare Initiative (HSKi), what is the idea behind it?

I started HSKi back then in my year one in the University as Kings n Queens Circle. The vision was born out of the passion to give a better future to the streets kids after realizing that the parents of the kids were used to beg by their own parents, I decided to break this evil chain by getting the kids enrolled in school and their parents gainfully employed or into business.

Which brought about our mission statement which says to turn craving hands to creative minds through guidance and counselling, skill acquisition program, education and policy advocacy.

And ultimately, God told me to do it.

 How has it been so far?

It’s being a great experience for me working with these kids for close to 12 years now. Our organization currently  have a school with 25 used to be street kids and  24 more who had gone through our program. We currently have  a girl in secondary school with two others writing the forth coming Common entrance examination.Most of our parents are now security guards and also into farming.

For the challenges, I will say permanent site. We have changed location three times within our close to three years staying kwara State. This is not too good for a growing organization.

Also, getting scholarships for the kids. It is our target to enrol minimum of 50 street kids in school every academic year.

 Many people have great ideas like yours, but they couldn’t start due to fear and other considerations, how did you overcome yours?

I was able to overcome my fears because I was privileged to locate my mentor on time. His dream is bigger than mine and through his counsel and demonstration of grace in his assignment, I realized me too can achieve what God called me to do. Taking care of the Street kids and their parents.

 

What did you consider your greatest motivation?

Who are your target audience?

My target audience is every human who will like to give expression to the greatness in them. We are all created to solve a problem, and until we find ourselves so doing, fulfilment remains a fantasy. 

Thanks For Your Time

The pleasure is mine..

Felix A. Duyilemi is the international best-selling author of “How To Borrow God’s Brain To Succeed”, “The MAGIC of Getting Rich,” and other best-selling books

He helps businesses and individuals craft compelling stories, expand their concepts of possibilities, and dream bigger dreams. His vision is to impact at east 3 billion people for time and eternity

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