I graduated from Harvard today with Full Distinctions🎉
I haven't even been able to take any pictures - Just looking at my graduation gown and crying like a baby.
Like, how did I even get here?
This big win is for everyone that supported my journey to Harvard.
Thank you Jesus!
I just read through my March journal where I was asking God to help me send 10 kids to primary school.
Now, we have 33 kids who have access to 12 years of fully funded education 🥺
The God who does exceedingly abundantly above all I could ask or think. To Him be my glory 🙌🏾
Oh, I finally took some pictures!
Exactly a year ago, a lot of amazing people and I raised $68,000 in three weeks to fund my graduate studies at Harvard University.
It was a daunting ride, but I couldn’t take no for an answer, so I decided to fundraise my tuition.
Last weekend, I married my best friend,
@kayoluwaseundav
, and I would like to reintroduce myself.
My name is Aramide Kayode (no longer Aramide Akintimehin) and I am 21 years old.
Last October, one of our kids at Talent Mine Academy, Abdullahi, came to meet me crying. We had just enrolled him in private school and the kids in his class kept laughing at him and calling him “Omo aboki”.
Guyssss, I got into Harvard!!!!!🥳
but I cannot fund my education🙁
so I need your help🥺.
Please help retweet and share. It would go a long way in helping me raise my tuition before May 22.
Thank you and God bless.
#GetAramideToHarvard
My honest thoughts on getting married young.
In recent times, I have been getting this question from quite a number of super young women.
“Aramide, you got married so young! How did you do it? How did you know that you were ready?
For context, I got married at 21
Who wants to join me to start a free school to offer quality education to kids in low-income communities in Nigeria?
I need those who are truly passionate about marginalized kids and education.
Please RT. Thank you!
Last Sunday was my one year anniversary and before getting married, one year ago, I wish I knew how connected my relationship with God was to the quality of my marriage.
In 2021, I got a call from a tech company to lead their Education department. I was excited about it and I thought, “God is good!”
But it didn’t feel right. It just didn’t feel right.
5 years ago, at this time, and in this same place, I met the man who changed my life forever.
Today, we have a blooming family and life and I am so proud of everything that God has helped us build together.
Please marry well o.
Shine your eye well and choose.
This is one of the most important decisions you’ll ever make, and it is one that God gave us the opportunity to make.
Don’t miss it, I beg you.
If you get it, it will sweet you and your coming kids.
Get it right!
Setup a FREE govt. approved school for children in low-income communities.
Doubled my team and enrolled 60 out-of-school children, who would NEVER have gone to school, under our 12 year scholarship program.
All glory to God.
Running a free school has taught me that providing free education to children in low-income communities is not enough.
You need to feed them too, if not, you are just wasting your time.
What can a child who has not eaten and will not eat till 3pm learn?
God help us.
Guyssss, I got into Harvard!!!!!🥳
but I cannot fund my education🙁
so I need your help🥺.
Please help retweet and share. It would go a long way in helping me raise my tuition before May 22.
No amount is too small please.
Thank you and God bless.
Our kids resumed yesterday and gosh, the last two days have been the most intense.
Launching a school is one phase, and running it is a completely different phase.
The Lord is my Strength!
Our FREE school is now Government Approved by the Ministry of Education 🎉
I picked up our approval documents yesterday and it still feels so surreal.
This approval process usually takes a year and more but God did it for us in less than three months!
When I was pregnant, I battled with deep levels of comparison with my husband especially.
I would have a lot of work and tasks to get done but no energy to do anything. As I struggled to even get up from bed on some days, my husband would have gotten up and almost smashed all
Everything got a lot sweeter for
@kayoluwaseundav
and me.
Last month, God blessed us with a blessed baby girl and we are so grateful for the ease that we enjoyed all through the journey.
I used to wonder why people called newborns ‘bundle of joy’. Now I get the memo.
‼️UPDATE‼️
Thank you very much everyone.
This is huge for me. I’ll be back to share my testimony as
@DrIjeomaNwagwu
said.
Thank you everyone for your support.
I appreciate you all!
Please RT, we’re closer than ever. Please share. Thank you 🙏🏾
#GetAramideToHarvard
My book is readyyyy!!!
This is a dream come true for me! Started one year ago and it’s so exciting to see the fruit of one year’s hardwork manifest physically.
For those who have ordered, shipping would start next week by God’s grace and you would be with your copy in no time.
When the Harvard GSE application opens for this year, I’ll support 5 African educators through their application process.
I cannot be the only one enjoying this...
8 weeks postpartum.
For the first five weeks, it was like what is going on?! Having a child absolutely rocked my world and I was constantly asking my husband if this was the right time 😅.
But here I am at week 8 loving the new dispensation.
In 2019, I started Talent Mine Academy to empower children in low-income communities with access to quality education.
We started with Saturday lessons, and then evolved to a model where we started enrolling children in low-income communities into top private schools.
I married a very kind man who helped with caring for our baby girl 12 hours during the day, so I can focus fully on the Summit.
My darling husband + father of the century,
@kayoluwaseundav
, thank you!
I am always grateful for you ❤️
Hi!
My name is ARAMIDE
And I have been called to a life of service
To let my light shine ✨
And help others shine theirs too
Because the sky is big enough for everyone to fly.
‼️DISCLAIMER‼️
I really want to sincerely appreciate everyone here for your support in bringing to reach our goal.
I’m grateful.
As much as possible, please let’s try to take down every flyers and account details as fast as possible.
#GetAramideToHarvard
Yesterday, I delivered a keynote speech at
@KPMG
, and after the talk, someone messaged me saying how grateful she was that I honoured the invitation.
I was speaking on Personal Branding, but she was picking so many tips on how she could live life intentionally and purposefully.
Last Friday, I got the result of all our kids and when I opened Abdullahi’s result, I had goosebumps all over. This guy had moved from one B and a C in the previous term to straight A’s. Talk about true academic excellence.
After our launch yesterday, I got home and started crying.
More than anything, all I could think about was the husband God blessed me with.
Thank you
@kayoluwaseundav
for allowing me to blossom. You are my best decision after Christ ❤️
Thank you for always being there.
My name is Aramide Kayode from Nigeria 🇳🇬.
I am excited to share that I have been selected to join the UNESCO SDG4 Youth & Student Network.
Through my work at
@talentminea
, I am committed to providing 12 years of fully-funded quality education to children in low-income areas.
My name is Aramide and I run a free school in Nigeria
@talentminea
My dream is to revolutionize how development happens in low-income communities, by empowering children in these communities with the empowerment and skills that they need to solve problems in their communities.
This morning, I saw a scripture that describes me perfectly: Psalm 1:3 (ERV)
Aramide grows strong, like a tree planted by a stream — a tree that produces fruit when it should and has leaves that never fail.
Everything she does is successful!
This is the most disgusting video I have ever watched 🤮
If you are seeing this as a young woman, please, marry well.
Not all men are like this.
Take your time and let God lead you!
God still has very solid sons. Don’t be afraid of missing it, just trust and follow God.
This term, I decided to teach CRS to our kids once a week.
I had my first class this week with our Primary Four kids where we learned about Fatherhood and how to become a part of God’s family.
Love is really a beautiful thing, especially for the fact that God is the only source of true love.
Oluwaseun, you walked into my life and taught me the love of Christ and the validity of God’s commitment to me. Since I met you, I’ve consistently soar and shattered new grounds.
Happy anniversary my love.
You make living purposefully very easy. Thank you for being a strong pillar of support and inspiration for me.
I am grateful for the gift of you every day! ❤️
Today, I was looking through Rabiat's Impact Report and I became so heartbroken.
I met Rabiat in 2018 in the Ota community of Ogun State.
She was 13 years old, but she could not communicate in English at all. Just Hausa.
When his older sister dropped off in January, I was really scared because I thought he would be discouraged and it would affect his academic performance but look guys, I have a goal-getter and I am so prouddddd.
I am so inspired by the rate at which I have disciplined myself to show up each day...
Even when I do not feel like it, I still show up.
Because showing up is winning!
That as I yield to His Spirit, I will not fulfil the lust (envy, bitterness, jealousy, malice, lies, infidelity, rebellion, pride and name every other issue that come up in many marriages) of the flesh.
Heyyy my new friends 👋🏾
My name is Aramide Kayode and I am 22 years old.
I saw an issue with kids not being in school, so I started Talent Mine Academy, a nonprofit that provides access to quality education and better opportunities to kids in low-income communities.
Last term, he came in with this result and we celebrated him and the other kids by taking them to the mall to see a movie, while also encouraging them to keep up with their academic excellence.
I shared this story to highlight these important points:
1. Every nudge is a leading.
Don’t discard or second guess the nudges that keep coming.
2. God has never and will never give up on us.
I know that there a whole theory on replacement and stuff like that,
I went back and forth in tears while typing this and I can’t begin to imagine where I would be without everyone’s support.
It truly takes a village to raise a child, and I am grateful to everyone for raising this leader.
Maternity leave is over and I am excited to be back in the field better and stronger.
Even though my maternity leave was a scam (because I still did some minimal work and check in with our kids), it feels so good to be back in full.
If God has given you a vision for kid’s content and you are still sitting on it, you are playing with generations upon generations cos the world is producing their nonsense content and pushing it out boldly, while you are there still playing mediocre.
Get up and get to work!
I have learned that calling God, Lord, is not enough. I must really let Him be God in my home by submitting to his leadership and plan for my marriage and my family.
I’m excited to graduate from Harvard with a full distinction result, and all I feel right now is gratitude.
I am super grateful to all those who believe in me and my vision for change in the education system. I am grateful to everyone that supported my fundraiser and journey.
God is kind and the more we look to Him, the more we see our blessings through Him and less of what we are missing out on because we are looking to others to measure ourselves.
We are building a school for children in low-income communities.
A school that we raise young leaders who will radically transform their communities from the grassroots.
So far, with the resources we had, we have raised children who have proffered solutions to
If you are a young changemaker driving social change, please I beg you, apply for the One Young World 2024 Summit once the application opens.
2000+ people from 190+ countries is not beans at all!
There is so much exposure and inspiration here.
Get in the room!
I work with these kids and I know how inconvenient their living and learning conditions can be, but amid the inequity these kids face, they still strive hard to be the best. I never even got this kind of result in school, even with access to a better learning and living condition
Take your time. Don’t let anyone put you under any pressure.
And don’t ‘emotionalize’ the decision.
Shine your spiritual and physical eyes. Let God lead you and don’t be a mule when he tells you to walk away from the wrong person.
Please get it right.
Let God lead you.
❤️&💡
Excited to have been selected to attend
#OYW23
– the biggest global summit for young leaders and changemakers 🎉.
I got in last year, but couldn’t attend because I had just had my baby. One year later, I am here and excited about it!
It is so good to see and it is absolutely priceless to have a godly marriage. That the more we grow in the things of the Spirit, the more peace, love and joy that we experience in our home.
But, at 21, I already knew to a great extent what I wanted out of life, I understood God’s leading, and I had access to mentors and wise counsel from people who had very successful marriages and families.
A Godly marriage will always put you to flight and will triple your growth, capacity, and impact.
A good marriage will never leave you the same.
So, if God says, “Yes, it’s time”, then don’t let your age stop you.
God saw your age before He put that conviction in your heart.
One thing I noticed was that the day I skipped my prayer time, it was so easy to dismiss His nudge but the more I prayed and spent quality time with God, the louder I could hear His voice and the easier it was to obey Him.
I run a free school for children in low-income communities -
@talentminea
.
These children have access to 12 years of fully-funded high quality education that empowers them tp think independently and solve problems.
Send me a dm if you’ll like to support in any way.
Since I was 15, I always prayed that I want to get it right early and align, and I believe that God answered that prayer at the time when I was drifting.
He kept nudging me until I left!
Just be sincere in following God, and He will lead you! He always does.
When Uchechi came for her scholarship application interview, she looked so malnourished, even though she was eager to learn.
In the first few weeks of attending school, Uchechi would show up looking sick and weak. Her mum is only able to feed her once a day - after school.
This picture was taken in 2020 (before COVID).
We didn’t have enough chairs/mat so I would lie on the floor in our borrowed office space to teach the out-of-school kids in the community.
Now, we have a whole school for them. Sometimes, it feels so surreal. Thank God for growth.
That meant a lot to me and from then, I started to see how blessed I was. I started to realise that when we keep looking at others to measure our progress, we would never see how blessed and valuable we are.
This post is for a lot of young women in this phase.
Please, stop letting these negative and fear-filled external influences overpower your internal convictions and God’s leading.
There is a multiplier effect in a Godly marriage.