Bodun Gbajabiamila

Engage. Explore. Empower. Elevate.

Bodun is a spirited and creative polymath with innovative mindset and determination to add more values through services render to clients and maximize profit by improving the operational efficiencies of staff towards service delivery, contents creation and re-branding the existing innovations.

For the past nine years I have been adding values in educational management, skills, digital media and contents development, political communication and strategy, business intelligence solutions, corporate branding and management as well as community services. The experiences gathered while working for others and the need and passion to fill the gap in learning/education, career and talents development, youths empowerment ignited the motivation leading to my establishment of TOUCHSTONE EDUCATION NIGERIA (RC.2873417).

The good intention and hard-work of both teaching and non-teaching staff at TEN leads to great achievement and thus, encouraged us further in establishing SIDWELL SCHOOLS (RC. 2593601) which is initiated to provide affordable education to children of low and middle income parents/guardians irrespective of cultural and religious backgrounds. The school commenced with 32 students (and still increasing) consisting of Junior and Senior Secondary School classes in September, 2018.

In 2019, I found an increasing need for cleaning services and facilities management in some neighborhoods in Lagos amidst rising unemployment rate. After much deliberation with management staff at Touchstone Group, we established TOUCHSTONE CLEANERS LIMITED (RC.1629613) with over 30 trained staff (and still increasing) to respond to the need.

I'm very much interested in creative, innovative and working ideas that can make significant positive impacts in the life of the needy thereby reducing inequality gaps in Africa local communities. I often imagine an Africa where #wedriveforward together in igniting ideas towards emancipating and empowering the needy at the bottom. Hence the birth of Drive Forward Initiative (DFI) after consultation with the collective efforts of proactive and passionate African youths in diaspora who are brimming with talents and skills to drive sustainable socioeconomic change across the continent.

At DFI, we have a strong conviction that by crowdfunding skills and expertise as skilled volunteers positive impacts can be made towards bridging inequality gap across African local communities.