BBI clinches Digify's “Not-For-Profit Organization of the Year" Award

BBI clinches Digify's “Not-For-Profit Organization of the Year" Award, calls for nationwide volunteers to promote her Localising the SDGs project.

Brain Builders International (BBI) clinches Digify’s “Not-For-Profit Organization of the Year” Award. The award created to identify and celebrate not-for-profit organizations applying leading digital perspectives and solutions for solving business, economic and social challenges, celebrates BBI, the youth-based non-governmental organization in the Not-For-Profit category of the Digital Leaders Award 2019. The award category received entries from several notable organizations driving positive social and economic impacts through their advocacy, some of which are; The Tony Elemelu Foundation and Action Aid International.

As announced on Monday, 16th of December, 2019 on DigifyNG official twitter page, Brain Builders International topped the Tony Elumelu Foundation (2nd Place) and Action Aid International (3rd Place) to earn the first spot. Stating that the award is an indication that the actions of organizations are been watched, followed and will be duly rewarded in the society, the Executive Director, BBI, Mr Abideen Olasupo was congratulated on this feat after their “Twitter Shake” tweet chats about localising the SDGs in Nigeria.

In the need to enlighten every household in Nigeria’s nook and cranny, Brain Builders International jumped over the limits of the language barrier to translate the SDGs into the Nigerian local dialects for easy immersion of the locals. This initiative was launched on Twitter to alert stakeholders and welcome their contributions as they’re set to achieve this SDGs localisation in a disruptive measure that will see the SDGs becoming a household anthem by the end of 2020.

According to the Head of SDGs program at BBI, Mr Sodiq Ajala, this idea and of course, launching with a tweet chat is to reveal that in achieving the SDGs, everyone, everywhere must be carried along. It is not a one-man fight, it is a fight for all. He also added that this is the only way to get people to work towards the success of the goals. “The organisation's commitment to the SDGs is self-evident and in a bid to ensure the actualization of the goals, it has come up with an initiative like "Localising the SDGs". The hashtag to the tweet trend is #BBISDGs.

“We are actively seeking volunteers to promote the program in their respective communicates. At the moment, we’re in talks with active volunteers in Jigawa, Nasarawa and Lagos, and creating strategic frameworks to begin in January 2020.”

“This project is huge and there’s a need to partner with like-minded and passionate people to pull this trigger with us. Localising the SDGs is BBI's effort to make SDGs a household anthem across the 774 local governments areas in Nigeria so that in the nook and cranny, every human can identify, understand and promote the cause by seeing themselves as an integral part of the world and the need for them to become a global citizen”, he concluded.