Nigeria
On April 18, 2008, Kunle Rotimi, CT board member in Nigeria, met with Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Her Excellency Mrs. Sarah Sosan and other senior officials of the Lagos State Education Ministry, to present and discuss the project’s basic concept and approach.
Kunle later reported the favorable results of this meeting, indicating that government officials were looking forward to the project’s operation in their jurisdiction. He added that the Lagos Ministry may be able to assist public school teachers to attend the training workshop which is a key component of the project’s initial consultation visit.
Lee Havis, CT executive director, indicates that his initial consultation visit would also include personal meetings with local government officials and other interested persons to plan for the project’s full-scale operation. Lee says that this plan includes operating a model school for young children and conducting daily informal tutoring for poor working children as well.
In 2018, Evelyn Onyeka began to coordinate contacts with school owners and educators in Nigeria, to stimulate their interest in learning about IMS technology. In this effort, she has also conducted a number of informative meetings and a mobile chat platformon whatsapp to expand her outreach for IMS and the ‘new education’.  In this way, Evelyn hopes to encourage sufficient interest and support to hold an IMS training workshop in the country. This effort is a very practical means to launch interest in developing a CT project as well in Nigeria.
Namibia
In summer, 2016, Lee Havis designated Menfret Melk, a citizen of Namibia, West Africa, as first member of the consultation board of the “Character Teaching”(CT) project in that country. In this role, Menfret will contact high level government officials to obtain their support for this project that aims to eradicate poverty by using the IMS technology in various situations with the poor children and families involved. The CT consultation board also aims to raise funds for the project’s first step, which is an initial consultation visit.
When 26-year-old Menfret contacted IMS to offer his volunteer services, he stated, “It has always been my dream to help eradicate poverty in Namibia. Since finding out about the CT project, I feel this is a remarkable opportunity for me.”
Menfret’s background includes a degree in Economics from the Namibia University of Science and Technology (2015). Besides his regular employment at the First National Bank of Namibia, Menfret does considerable volunteer work with children, including tutoring and textbook curriculum development in mathematics and statistics for high school students. In 2015, he helped to organize a leadership summit event hosted by Dr. John Maxwell, bestselling author and expert in the field of leadership.
Lee believes that Menfret is well-suited by character and interest to help launch the CT project in Namibia. He says, “Menfret sees himself as very hardworking and self driven. In addition, he believes in the power of taking a personal responsibility to make life better for others, and never giving up until they discover their potential. This type of determination, character, and faith is vital to achieving success in our fight to overcome long-standing poverty which is so widely felt in many cultures around the world.”
An active member of the leading political party in Namibia, Menfret has already received favorable response for the project from his party’s leadership and, with that support, he has spoken with the Director of Education in his region of Erongo which represents his coastal city, Swakopmund. His plan now is to travel to Windhoek to present the CT Project to the country’s Minister of Education as well.
Kenya
In 2007, Jared Otieno, secretary General of a local NGO involved with relief work in Kenya wrote to express his interest in the project. In 2009, he wrote a strong letter of support on behalf of his NGO for the CT project. Other NGO leaders in the country, such as Kefa Were also joined with Jared in a consultation board to represent the “Character Teaching” project in his country. However, this encouraging initial effort, was not pursued beyond that point and therefore remains dormant in 2019.