About a year ago, I found this little boy in the slums of ikorodu picking scrap from the floor.
I adopted him and he has lived with me ever since then.
Today is his first day at school 😊
Cerebral palsy. Mocked as an imbecile and bullied by other children in Makoko.
Found Chess. Fought for his place in the world. Now he’s in America teaching USCF rated players lessons on the chess board.
This is what dreams are made of❤️
Extremely cruel to humiliate a mother in front of her daughter like this. Even worse that this was recorded and posted on social media.
My mother used to sweep people’s houses and gutters in 2016. It hurt too much that I could do nothing financially to stop her. I often insisted
Thinking about Ayomide today...
We met him as an Area boy under oshodi bridge a little over a year ago but is now a Web developer and graphics designer.
No longer a pawn in another man's game, but the hero of his own story❤️
We did the impossible and gave the world something new to believe in.
Official record holders of the Longest Chess Marathon for 64 hours.
We did it❤️🇳🇬🇵🇷
Forgotten in an IDP camp just 6 months ago in Adamawa, to winning a silver medal+100 dollars at the Chess and community conference in Athens, Georgia 🇺🇸.
This is what dreams are made of❤️