In 2022, we secured a small venue in Ogbaodu-Aba where our children gathered every weekend. They engaged in play, dancing, and explored indigenous handcrafts. Initially, we enrolled around 30 children between the ages of 3 and 14. Additionally, we welcomed a few older, underprivileged, and orphaned children into the group.
We instructed the children in various cooking techniques, such as drying and preserving okra for soup-making and preparing Cocoyam stakes—a seasoning used in cooking soup, called Iwuwu.
The children learned to craft baskets from palm branches, make brooms from palm leaves, and extract oil from palm kernels. This extracted oil, known as Elu-Aki or EL'AKI, is used for various illnesses.
