HSKI organizes projects that allow her to gain access to the street community, having in mind the needs and lacks the street community. Due to the lockdown imposed by the government due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we had to put a hold on these projects. But then the lockdown extended to the Ramadan Season. Most …
Pastor Tony informed me we were to visit a Nigerian missionary in town; Pastor Mike, from Ogbomosho, Oyo State. I was happy to travel around the city. I expected to see lots of kids begging on the streets but was surprised to see only a few boys, leading their parents on the streets. Definitely not …
IMPORTED VEGETABLES?! Kids On The Streets Series 30 Read More »
Hello Dear Friends and Partners of HSKi. Sitting back to meditate on my life and work on the street for over 13 years counting: the events both the good, the bad and the ugly. Some I remembered and had a good laugh to myself while some, I can’t but shook my head and with some …
Ma Funmi! Ma Funmi!! Was all I was hearing, so many of them from all angles. People were staring at me as the multitude of the street kids came in their tens to hug me in pure love and not because of what I have to give them. I was an undergraduate …
We entered Niamey, Niger Republic well after 10:00 pm and was welcomed by the heat. Immediately, I realised I was no longer in Nigeria. I was taken to the mission quarters and shown my room. I woke up late the following morning and found Pastor Tony already in the kitchen making breakfast. I told him …
‘Finally! I will go see Niger Republic,’ I said to myself. We were comfortably seated and with a smile on my face, when a young man boarded the bus only to challenge Pastor Tony of being in his seat!…
How He Crossed The Border To Get Me 5:00 am the following day, I bade my friends goodbye and headed straight to Ojoo where I boarded a vehicle going to Sokoto. I was quite nervous as it was my first time taking such a journey. While I waited for the Sienna car to be filled, …
I was so glad about my trip to Niger that I decided to pay a visit to the slum to inform them about my trip to their country maybe that will make them happy. I got to the slum around 7:30pm without me having an idea of what to expect. Getting to the settlement, I …
A GREEN LIGHT AT THE SLUM, THE IBRAHIMS. Series 26. Read More »
Can You Die For This Course? I left the prayer ground to my friend’s room, told her my resolution and she agreed with me. There was a university lecture event on that day, to be delivered by a well-respected professor at the faculty of Education, Professor Aderemi Bamishaye. She was to speak on the difference …
I couldn’t face my friends so I went straight to my room without any feedback. Instead, I called my elder sister and bombarded her with how my day went. I was looking for someone to agree with me that I had tried my best but rather, she encouraged me. She advised I think about the …
