Street Project is a social enterprise conceived as an intervention to myriads of youths living under the poverty line. Youth restlessness, lack of direction and opportunities to develop their skills are limitations to their development and empowerment, hence the need to harness their talents.

Our Vision: We see a world with a critical mass of Transformational Youth Ambassadors making a sustainable living doing what they love.

Our Mission: To facilitate opportunities for youth employment and engagement using creative arts as a tool.

Our objective is to raise transformational youth ambassadors for Africa.

Our Flagship initiatives are the Creative Youth Boot Camp, The Talent Hub, Project Raw and Reflection series.

Areas of Expertise:
# Social and Emotional Learning SEL
# Youth Advocacy
# Cross Cultural dialogue and Understanding.

Board of Trustees:

Mrs Rita Ezenwa-Okoro
Founder,
Street Project Foundation
reo@streetproject.org.ng
+234-8037128799

Mrs Eduvielawhe Olutimayin
Director of Operations,
Street Project Foundation
eduvie@streetproject.org.ng
+234-8177403222

Mr Ezenwa Okoro
Consultant/Volunteer Program Manager,
Street Project Foundation
ezenwa@streetproject.org.ng
+234-8020994158

Ms Kelechi Okeahialam-Olawoyin
Head, Human Resources, Administrationand Communications
Transport Services Limited TSL
kenikins2001@yahoo.com
+234-8039791051

Mr Ugochukwu Enwereji
Special Projects Manager,
Globe Broadcasting <(>&<)> Communications Ltd
iczeluv@yahoo.com
+234-8032176202

Mr Wole Oguntokun
Artistic Director,
Theatre Republic and Renegade Theatre
laspapi@yahoo.com
+234-8023013778

Mr Tolulope Ajayi
Head of Branded Content,
Insight Communications Ltd
tolu.ajayi@gmail.com
+234-8023135972

Mr Paul R. Sachs
Executive Director,
Merakey-Philadelphia
PSachs@merakey.org
+1-215-4981703

ARTvocacy stands for “an ARTiculate Rant For A New Nigeria”  a concept brought by old grantee of Voice- Street Project Foundation. The current project aims at supporting young people to become social change influencers and content creators advocating for progressive societal change. This concept -Artistic activism is activism that doesn’t look like activism and art that doesn’t look like art. The ability of artistic activism to surprise us – to show up in unlikely places (e.g., not a gallery) or take on unfamiliar forms (e.g., not a protest march) provides an opportunity to disrupt people’s preconceived notions of art and protest, and their predetermined ideas about the messages we are trying to communicate. Whereas traditional forms of protest, like marches, need to constantly increase in size or scope, or descend into violence, to become noticed (and newsworthy), the creative innovation at the heart of artistic activism provides something uncommon, or out of place, that can attract attention and become memorable. The boundary slippage of artistic activism works equally well in repressive regimes where overt political protest is prohibited, yet artistic practices are tolerated. Slipping under the radar, artistic activism is not identified as “politics” to authorities while still being able to communicate a social message to the public.

With the support of VOICE, rightsholders will be able to grow the New Nigeria Movement to become more robust enough to influence people using various artistic forms and channels.
1. Online Community Engagement
2. Tactical Community Engagement
3. Direct Engagement with Public Servants

ONLINE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
We will produce two short films and a 26-episode podcast serial that will be viewed on YouTube and aired on Soundcloud respectively. The essence of producing this social media content isto galvanize an online community of youths and activate them for political participation in a compelling fashion.

TACTICAL COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
In the bid to build the New Nigeriamovement at the grassroots level, Community Theatre and Community Visual Art Creations on Billboards will be used to express the desires of the youth. It will become an avenue to rant and voice out their frustrations about their social welfare. It will also become an avenue to propose solutions to raging problems in the community.

TACTICAL ENGAGEMENT WITH PUBLIC SERVANTS
As a strategy to get the message of the youth in the faces and tables of public servants so they can engage positively with the demands of the youth, a coffee table book will be produced. The content of this book will be a compilation of Street photography and digital storytelling. This socially conscious product will give stakeholders the opportunity to feel the pulse of young people’s state of mind and influence their policies as regards youth political participation in Nigeria.

In order to get this movement going, a Strategic Youth Community Convening will be organised to herald these activities where 50 selected youths including those living with disabilities across project locations (Abuja and Enugu) will co-create and produce these contents that speak to their quest for a New Nigeria. Street Project Foundation will provide a safe space for movement building, creative thinking and problem solving through the lens of artistic activism.