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Learning beyond the classroom
The program is created with our goal in mind. A program that is student oriented and focused. This will give the students a dynamic opportunity to be groomed into independent, responsible members of the community through character education, career guidance, skill development/ acquisition, academic success, life coaching and leadership development.
The goal of this program is to nurture and empower girls, using a holistic approach, to become independent and proper ladies of society and in turn impact the community positively through the above initiatives.
As a result the girls will develop:
Each month is designated to a virtue that the girls’ activities and learning are centered upon. To facilitate learning and understanding, expectations are set for the girls to meet that demonstrate their learning. The girls are involved in these activities through a think, pair and share model collaboratively. To show understanding the girls are expected to define, demonstrate and apply the topic to a real life situation making it relevant.
Each student is paired with a mentor that best meet their career goal
Each student is encouraged and supported through skill acquisition during the holiday
Celebrating Student Success
This is an important aspect of our program. The girls are the center focus and so they must be recognized and their success must be celebrated. At the end of the session, OGAV will hold a “theme Gala” to celebrate graduating students, honor girls that have distinguished themselves throughout the year as nominated by their peers, and give scholarships, awards to deserving girls to help and support them both in secondary schools and post secondary destination.
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Ornaments of grace and virtue is a Non- Governmental Organization (NGO). It is an organization that is passionate about nurturing, mentoring and empowering girls to be young women in the society. Ornaments of Grace and Virtue (OGAV) is not affiliated with any religious denominations. It was founded in 2013 with the mission to develop independent, responsible, young girls through character building, mentorship, and acquisition of knowledge, skills and ethics.
The name ‘Ornaments of Grace and Virtue’ was borne out of a desire to develop girls who can fit into the picture of God’s desired pattern for ladies.
He desires that our daughters should be as cornerstones from which the term ‘Ornaments’ was derived. Ornaments are stones, beautiful pieces of stone, carved for purpose. God desires that our lives be carved for purpose.
Our ‘polishing’ comes from our development of grace and virtue.
Our mandate is to develop graceful, courteous young women who become successful in every area of life and exude grace charisma and strength required to hold together every palace in which life places them.
The Ornaments of Grace and Virtue (OGAV) Board of Trustees is comprised of leaders in the fields of international and social development, legal and human resources expertise, and seasoned educators.
Our Trustees currently consists of;
Chair and Founder
Olubusola Kolade (Mississauga, Canada)
Secretary
Kehinde Omojola (Lagos, Nigeria)
Financial secretary
Mrs Aduke Phillips (Lagos, Nigeria)
Trustees
Kemi Ogunmefun (Lagos, Nigeria)
Foluke Onasanya ( Ibadan, Nigeria)
Toyin Jaiyeola (Lagos, Nigeria )
Nike Ogunleye (Lagos, Nigeria)
Yinka Fakunle (Mississauga, Canada)
Olubusola is the founder and current chair of the Board of Trustees of OGAV and OGAV(Int) since the organization’s inception in 2013. Olubusola had her high school education at the prestigious Queen’s School Ibadan, Nigeria. She studied at the University of Ibadan from where she graduated with an Honors degree in Food Science and Technology. She later proceeded to Reading, England for her Masters degree in Food Quality Control. Working in England in the food sector and seeing the need for the food industry to embrace a clean environmental drive made her to go back to Brunel University London, England for Masters in Environmental Pollution Science with Project Management. Shortly after, she immigrated to Canada and took up an appointment with Ryerson Polytechnic University as an Asst. Professor in the Science department.
Olubusola has been an educator in the secondary sector in the last ten years with Toronto District School Board (TDSB). Her passion for the youth and the need to “catch them young” as she says made her to go back to teachers college at Brock University, Hamilton, Canada and since then has been an employee of TDSB as a teacher.
She worked with a range of diverse students including inner city, behavioral, and academic. This experience, using different initiatives to achieve student success, is among the driving forces that made her to come back to Nigeria to work with the youth though her heart goes out to the girl child being a product of a girl’s school herself.
Her passion for the young ones to succeed make her to chair / co-chair different initiatives such as Character Education, the Student Recognition award, the Outstanding student of the Month award and the Equity Committee. Teaching in the inner city schools with youth of diverse backgrounds gave her a better understanding of what it takes to see the youth of today succeed.
Olubusola is a firm believer in mentoring youth so that no youth should be left behind but equipped to achieve success. She believes that good virtues and values are learned and not a coincidence. This made her to start and register the Ornaments of Grace and Virtue Organization. To launch OGAV in secondary schools in Nigeria, she initiated and started a mentoring programme at QSI where character building, career guidance, life coaching, etc. is at the fore front to nurture and empower girls, using a holistic approach, to become proper ladies of society and in turn, impact the community.
She loves her heritage and is actively involved in the Nigerian Community in Toronto, Canada where she lives. Her outgoing personality in combination with her involvement with different community organizations has allowed her to serve as part of the executive officers – Secretary, Social Secretary and interim Board of Director. Olubusola has been recognized and given awards for her various commitments to service and leadership within her community by the Toronto School Board, Toronto Police and Nigerian Canadian Association.
She is a woman of strength, great courage and absolute faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. She believes in making success through commitment and persistence out of daunting situations in life. Her quest and passion for life is infectious and she positively impacts others that come across her path.
She is married with two children
Passionate to serving God and Committed to serving humanity to make a difference.
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Lorraine Otoide, PhD
Dr. Otoide received her B.Sc. from the University of Winnipeg. She continued her studies at Brock University where she obtained her M.Ed. in Educational Administration. Dr. Otoide subsequently completed her Ph.D. in Science Education at York University. She has 15 years of diverse professional experience in K-12 education and undergraduate teaching as a Course Director in the Faculty of Education, York University. She is a Center for Refugee Studies Scholar. Her research interests are interdisciplinary, and current interests include teaching and learning in Science, Mathematics and Technology education within an international and comparative education framework. Dr. Otoide has presented her research at various national and international conferences.