Home Security Laboratory (HSL) Program For Secondary Schools & Tertiary Institutions
Promoting Peace, Responsibility, and Community Safety
- Introduction
The Home Security Laboratory (HSL) is a transformative educational system designed to help young people understand security, peacebuilding, and responsible citizenship. HSL equips students in secondary schools and tertiary institutions with practical tools to identify risks, support safer communities, and cultivate leadership.
The program aligns with national safety priorities and prepares young people to become agents of peace in their campuses, hostels, homes, and communities.
- Objectives of the HSL Program
- Promote safety awareness among students.
- Strengthen decision-making skills using HSL tools.
- Reduce risky behaviours on campus through preventative learning.
- Build a culture of peace, discipline, and accountability.
- Encourage students to participate actively in community safety.
- Target Groups
- Secondary Schools
Focus on:
- Teen safety education
- Moral responsibility
- Early peacebuilding training
- Guidance on peer influence and discipline
- Tertiary Institutions
Focus on:
- Campus security awareness
- Hostel and neighbourhood safety
- Intelligence reporting discipline
- Student leadership and civic responsibility
- HSL Core Tools for Students
Students are introduced to four foundational HSL systems:
- Neighborhood Assessment Tool (NAT)
Helps students identify risks, behaviours, and threats within their immediate environment.
- Literary Security X-Ray (LSX)
Teaches comparative analysis of security patterns between school years.
- Rehabilitation Tool (RT)
Guides behavioural correction and positive reconstruction for at-risk youths.
- Peace & Security Catalog (PSC) / Community Catalog (CC)
Used to document safety observations and support real-time peacebuilding.
- Annual HSL Activity Structure
- Orientation & Basic Training
All new students receive introductory HSL training within their school or faculty.
- Campus or School Safety Walk
Guided tours to assess surroundings using NAT.
- HSL Peace Clubs
Students form peace clubs to:
- Observe and report risks
- Engage in community service
- Mentor junior students on discipline
- Academic Competitions
- HSL Quiz Competitions
- Security Problem-Solving Challenge
- Peace Debate Competitions
- Annual HSL Day
A full-day program including:
- March Past
- Drama on campus security
- Presentation of NAT reports
- Recognition of outstanding safety champions
- Expected Outcomes
- Improved discipline among students
- Reduced campus conflict and violence
- Stronger collaboration with school authorities
- Preventative security learning among youths
- Promotion of peace within school hostels and classrooms
- Role of HEPUI in Schools & Campuses
HEPUI supports institutions with:
- Professional HSL trainers
- Training manuals and workbooks
- HSL club formation and supervision
- Monitoring and evaluation of student impact
- Publishing school activities on the HEPUI website
- Partnership Invitation
Schools, tertiary institutions, student unions, and campus fellowships are invited to adopt HSL as a structured peace and safety learning program.
Together, we can build institutions where young people grow with discipline, wisdom, and responsibility.
- Contact Information
Heroes and Heroines of Peace and Unity Initiative (HEPUI) P.O.W.A Int’l Market, Block J Suite 17 Check Point Nyanya Abuja
Making everyone guard everybody through the Home Security Laboratory.