As humanity rolls the drums to celebrate 2025 World Teachers’ Day, Inoyo Toro Foundation has advocated for mutual support, shared expertise and joint responsibility, in order to strengthen the teaching profession in Akwa Ibom State.

In a statement issued October 5, 2025 and signed by the Foundation’s Chief Operating Officer, Professor Enobong Joshua, Inoyo Toro Foundation charged all concerned stakeholders to reflect on the kind of support our teachers need, to produce the kind of education our society wants.

The statement highlighted some of the areas of required collaboration to include improved government policies, enhanced legislations, enabling work environment, incentivizing progrmmes, teachers’ training, welfare, reward and recognition, and reiterated that every teacher deserves society’s collective support.

The teachers’ day anniversary message congratulates all teachers in Akwa Ibom State and beyond, and noted that the theme of the 2025 World Teachers’ Day, “Recasting Teaching as a Collaborative Profession”, squarely fits the model of teachers’ mentorship programme of Inoyo Toro Foundation.

World Teachers’ Day is marked October 5 of every year to celebrate the contributions of teachers across the globe and to commiserate the anniversary of the adoption of the 1966 International Labour Organization (ILO)/United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) recommendation concerning the status of teachers and the standard of teaching across the world. It is co-convened by ILO and UNESCO in partnership with Education International (EI).

Inoyo Toro Foundation is a not-for-profit, Non-Governmental Organization that has so far trained over 3542 teachers, rewarded over 299 teachers and 8 principals with cash prizes, and mentored over 6000 students across 138 schools in Akwa Ibom State. The Foundation’s annual flagship teaching excellence awards ceremony comes up Friday, November 7, 2025.

In the last eighteen years of its operations, Inoyo Toro Foundation has remained consistent in the development of capacities in Akwa Ibom State, with beneficiaries including teachers, students, schools, libraries, laboratories, lawyers, engineers, journalists, medical workers, techies, film makers, writers, actors and actresses, entrepreneurs, youths and women across various communities in the state.