The students identified areas of social change in their local communities, initiated and implemented over two hundred projects in 2010. Here are the three winning projects, each drawn from Anambra, Lagos and Ogun States:

Anambra: Decent Toilet-Healthy Living

Problem: Upper Iweka, a popular market in Onitsha, was notorious for the appalling state of its public toilet facility. The dilapidated structure, broken water closets and general repulsive condition of the facility left traders utilizing available open spaces for bathroom breaks. This posed severe health hazards to the traders and shoppers visiting the market.

Change Project: Recognizing the need to promote healthy living conditions in their community, students of Ado Girls Secondary School, Onitsha chose to renovate the public toilets at Upper Iweka, Onitsha.

Impact: Decent Toilet- Healthy Living project not only improved the quality of life of Upper Iweka traders and visitors, it also contributes to the achievement of the 7th agenda on the UN millennium Development Goals, which is to ensure environment sustainability. It is estimated that the project will reach an average of 350 individuals weekly.

Sustainability: To ensure the sustainability of the project, users are charged a small fee to cover the cost of janitors who now maintain the facility. In addition, the students have handed the management of the facility over to the State Ministry of Women Affairs.

Lagos State: Sick Bays in Public Schools

Problem: Unlike the well equipped sickbays in private schools, most sickbays in public schools lack the basic facilities required to run efficiently. Although efforts are being made to upgrade the infrastructure in public schools, it is expected that the process will be a long one, given the level of degradation in the schools.

Change: In an effort to address the sickbay challenge, students of Iponri Estate High School, in collaboration with a medical practitioner, renovated and equipped the sickbay at Itolo Junior Girls School.

Impact: The students and teachers of Itolo Junior Girls School now have access to a functional sickbay. To date, the LEC students have received several feedbacks on the impact of the sickbay, including a letter of commendation by Lagos State Government Education District IV.

Sustainability: Nurses that were previously posted to the sickbay have returned to the school to serve at the sickbay. In addition, the students are seeking partnership with pharmaceutical companies that could provide future medical supplies for the sickbay.

Ogun State: Knowledge behind Prison walls

Problem: Nigerian prisons are plagued with several problems, including lack of education and training material for inmates. This poses a serious challenge to the inmates, as they spend years behind prison walls without adequately developing themselves.

Change Project: Knowledge behind Prison Walls was initiated by students of St. John Anglican High School, Abeokuta to provide inmates of Oba Prison with access to knowledge, information and inspiration. To achieve their aim, the students set up a library with the support of bookshops and community members.

Impact: 214 inmates of the newly built Oba Prison have access to knowledge and information that will to enable them cope with the challenges of life behind and outside the prison walls. In addition, given that the inmates write certificate and entrance examinations in the prison, access to text books, as well as supporting information gives them the opportunity to adequately prepare for external examinations.

Sustainability: The prison authorities have included library periods on the prison's schedule of activities. They have also committed to the ensuring proper maintenance of the library.