Sometimes the most lasting lessons are the ones taught by example, not by words alone.
Queen Tamunosoye Karibi-George visited Comprehensive Secondary School, Mgboshimini, in Port Harcourt, where she spoke directly to students and led a personal hygiene talk in partnership with the Edanuko Foundation. Over 1,000 hygiene items were distributed to students that day, but the real impact of the visit went beyond what was handed out.
Not every stop on her Road to Miss World involves a stage or a sash, and this one proved that some of the most meaningful ones do not need either.
Here is why this one stayed with her.
More Than a Talk
Queen Soye described the visit as a genuine honour and privilege, an opportunity to speak directly to young people about learning, growing, loving themselves and those around them, and striving to be a positive influence in their own world. It was not a scripted appearance. It was a conversation aimed at planting something that would outlast the day itself.
For a queen whose platform is built around seeing potential in every young person she meets, a room full of secondary school students was exactly the kind of audience worth showing up for in person.
Giving as a Lesson, Not Just a Gesture
What made the visit especially meaningful to Queen Soye was not only the ability to give, but what that act of giving teaches. She has said that being in a position to give to these students helps instill in them the importance of giving when they, too, are eventually in a position to help others. The over 1,000 hygiene items distributed were not simply supplies. They were part of a bigger lesson about generosity, dignity, and responsibility to community.
That framing matters. It reflects the same philosophy running through everything the Beyond Labels Initiative stands for: that empowerment is not about doing things for people, but about equipping them to eventually do the same for someone else.
A Partnership That Made It Possible
The outreach was made possible through a partnership with the Edanuko Foundation, working alongside Queen Soye to bring both the message and the materials directly to students at Comprehensive Secondary School. She specifically credited Faith, known online as Faith Da Bosslady, for helping make the visit happen, a reminder that advocacy work like this rarely happens through one person alone.
Partnerships like this one are what allow a single school visit to become something with real, tangible reach, hundreds of students receiving both a message and the means to act on it immediately.
Why This Visit Matters
Personal hygiene may seem like a small, practical topic compared to the bigger conversations Queen Soye has around inclusion and disability advocacy, but the two are connected by the same thread: dignity. Access to basic hygiene resources affects a student’s confidence, health, and ability to fully participate in their own education. By pairing a hygiene talk with real supplies rather than just advice, the visit addressed both the awareness gap and the practical gap at the same time.
What the Students Took Away
Beyond the items handed out that day, Queen Soye’s message centered on a few consistent themes: the importance of self-love, showing love to the people around them, and choosing to be a positive influence wherever they find themselves. For secondary school students navigating the ordinary pressures of adolescence, hearing that message from someone their community now sees as a national representative carries a different kind of weight than hearing it from a textbook or a classroom poster.
It is a small but deliberate part of how Queen Soye approaches her platform. Rather than treating young audiences as passive recipients of charity, she speaks to them the way she speaks about the children she meets through the Beyond Labels Initiative, as people with real potential who simply need the right encouragement and the right resources at the right moment.
Building a Habit of Giving Back
The lesson Queen Soye wanted students to walk away with extended beyond hygiene itself. By framing the distribution as something that teaches the value of giving, she used the visit to plant an idea that could shape how these students think about community responsibility long after the hygiene items themselves are used up. It is a quieter form of advocacy, one that measures success not just in items distributed, but in whether the students who received them grow up more likely to give back themselves.
Follow the Journey
This visit adds to the growing record of community outreach Queen Soye has carried out since her coronation, work that spans advocacy conversations, courtesy visits, and now direct engagement with students in their own classrooms. This site will continue to document each stop on her Road to Miss World.
