Oluwadamilola Akintewe

I am Oluwadamilola Akintewe, a law student and social entrepreneur living in Ondo State, Nigeria.

I am a fan of education, entrepreneurship, and volunteering as I have over four years experience in these fields.

Growing up in a rural community, I've seen poverty first hand and I've been advocating and creating a platform to reach people and add value to their lives.

That is why I started Project Rebirth which is about training rural low income earning women in sewing skills to improve their lifestyle and give them a source of income generation to cater for their families and children's education.

This is because the rate of poverty, unemployment and ignorance in these communities has reduced the importance of education in the minds of people and some fail to subscribe to it.

My team and I create a link between trainers and the trainees to get the equipped with skills. We also secure fundings to start up the women in their enterprise. This also reduced the rate of child labor seen in the community. Women in 8 communities and counting has been impacted.

I am also actively involved in education as I founded a not-for-profit called "The Ethelontis" to connect students in rural communities and when lack access to adequate learning facilities with their counterparts and mentors from urban areas through virtual learning. This is an alternative module to create a global mindset among these students as we impact their lives and open their minds to innovations.

The Ethelontis is in partnership with other young change minded persons and we have teams in India and Italy.

Another angle is the #LetGirlsLead campaign to raise awareness for the importance of the girl child education in rural communities.

This project has gone to 10 communities and villages, reeducating the elderly ones on the importance of training their daughters while citing examples of other women who changed the world through education to encourage the parents.

The project was successful and saw girls to the tune of 2000 being enrolled again in schools and several of them in senior classes registering for examinations to forward to the University.

I am an Ashoka Lead Young Fellow, an African Young Leader of Teennation, a fellow of the Female and More Leadership Cohort.

I participated in the World Innovation Summit for Education, 2018, selected for the International Youthopia Conference in Karachi, Pakistan 2018 and the Global Education and Skills Forum

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