the archive, kept by him
Long before the titles and the PhD, Kingsley Udo was already doing the work, and filming it. These 11 films from his own channel span 2013 to 2016: the youth movement he founded, the book he wrote, the children he set out to protect. They are where the story you have just read actually began.
“A calling to all young people … to a life of Excellence and Greatness.”
2013
Before the titles and the PhD, a young man with a camera and a cause.
2013 · 36 min Founder
The youth movement he founded: a five-day camp that sent young people into the streets to confront child sexual abuse, carrying the campaign all the way to the state secretariat. The 2013 edition was built around his book, Don't Judge Me... Help.
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Youth volunteering, child protection and an unshakable faith in young people, told in his own voice.
2016 · 3 min Film
His tribute to the profession he was born into. “I am called to teach, I love to teach, I live to teach and I teach to live. Africa needs more teachers and less politicians.” Both his parents were teachers.
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2016 · 5 min Trainer
Him in his element, facilitating a circle of trainees on child protection and safeguarding: the discipline he would carry from classrooms all the way to conflict zones.
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2016 · 4 min Convener
Volunteers Obligated to Inspire Change Everywhere: his neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood model for raising young leaders, with someone owning each of the Sustainable Development Goals.
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2015 · 1 min Youth Programme Manager
He helped VSO Nigeria unveil its first-ever child volunteer: an eleven-year-old from Abuja's neighbourhood children's parliament, making the case that children belong in development, not only on its receiving end.
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2015 · 30 sec Author
The book he wrote for parents, caregivers and young people, because “young people are much more than ever in need of a listening ear these days than a judgmental heart.”
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2016 · 4 min Film
A campaign to put out-of-school children back in the classroom, costing out exactly what it takes to get one Nigerian child Back2School.
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2016 · 10 min Film
A field diary from the youth-volunteering placements he managed: spaces for children, clean-up drives, sport for peace and the daily work of giving young people a voice.
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2016 · 4 min Film
A dispatch from the VSO International Citizen Service programme, where young Nigerians and international volunteers worked side by side in local communities.
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2016 · 5 min Trainer
More from the same training: building family and community-based psychosocial support and stronger systems to keep children safe.
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2016 · 7 min Trainer
The final part of the training, on supporting unaccompanied and separated children and responding to gender-based violence in emergencies.
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Twelve years on. International Alert Nigeria's tribute to his first thirty days as Country Director: colleagues, partners and community elders on the man now leading the work. “Alert family is blessed to have him.”
Film by International Alert Nigeria
