New Tiers Added to NHEG Reading Program
NHEG announces the continued growth of our current three-tier reading program. We are now launching four-tier and five-tier reading programs. The programs will include a reading time for students from 2nd to 5th grade and also from 6th to 8th grade. You can learn about all of our reading programs by visiting https://www.NewHeightsEducation.org/NHEG-educational-programs/virtual-reading-program/. You will be able to listen to these readings via our YouTube channel and website at any time. A new reading will be released every week.
The new tier reading program coordinator will be Rachel Omodolapo Oladejo. Rachel is a voice actress and singer at Wabbit’s Voices, a storyteller who performs voiceovers, and a writer whose words dance on paper. A self-taught naturopathic chef, she runs a hospitality business, Raymensions, and is a DIY holistic remedies guru who loves nature. You’ll catch her gardening or on food adventures hunting for new recipes you can eat and put on your skin. Rachel was born in Kaduna, Northern Nigeria, to late Navy Captain Professor Michael Olatunji and Bolaji Oladejo as the first of three children and only daughter. Her early schooling was at Hakda International School, Kaduna. Rachel learned much of her values, languages, culture and education from her father, and the art of running a business from her mother. Her father was an educationalist who was well-spoken and her first teacher.
Her father’s philosophy was “1,000% or nothing.” He passed on October 6, 2021, and Rachel used the pain of her grief to craft creative content for kids and music to cope and heal. The hit single tribute song to her late father, “Angels came for the Mathematician,” was birthed during this time of grief. Her love for reading, teaching and entertaining fueled her to delve into media and communication strategy, which led her to do voiceover work that then spanned to video games, children’s stories, audiobooks, commercials, animations and motivational nuggets coined “ray-motivate carrots,” giving her audience something to nibble on to enhance personal development and self-discovery. After relocating to Ibadan, Oyo State, Western Nigeria, for high school at LifeForte International High School in 1999, she better learned her mother tongue and culture, Yoruba. While growing up in Northern Nigeria, she learned mostly English, Hausa and Pidgin English, as well as a bit of Yoruba.
At only age 16, Rachel began to study for her bachelor of science degree in economics at Eastern Mediterranean University (Dogu Akdeniz Universeti) in 2005. There she was part of the Famagusta church choir, the Nigerian female basketball team and worked in the international student liaison office, helping African students settle in Northern Cyprus. Her teaching career began here as a hobby, when she tutored her friends in mathematics and other subjects, especially for exams. Two years later she relocated to the capital Lefkosa to continue her economics degree at Near East University (Yakin Dogu Universeti). Here, Rachel joined the international student liaison, danced in cultural dance shows and performed in church Christmas carols.
Rachel grew up singing in choir, and gifted with a soothing and uplifting voice, she yearned to be a music megastar. The headmistresses of her primary and secondary schools noticed this gift and encouraged her to harness it. After graduating from university with a bachelor of science degree in economics at Near East University Northern Cyprus (a Turkish colony) and completing N.Y.S.C. in Nigeria, she decided to start her music career. It was rough and required a lot of financing, so she decided to work at various jobs and run businesses to help fund her passion.
Rachel is a certified voice actress and team lead providing communication strategy services at Wabbit’s Voices Media House and a certified hairstylist providing beauty and holistic spa services at Hair Candy by Rachie Salon & Spa, she also provides naturopathic culinary services at Raymensions Hospitality Empire in Lagos, Nigeria.
