Aisha Saleh

Aisha is a 16-year-old Nigerian human rights and girl education advocate. She grew up in a slum community in Lagos (Monkey Village) with her grandmother after her mother’s death when she was age five. She is the leader of the girl empowerment club in her community. She advocates for parents in her community to send their girls to school and end child marriage. She also leads a period poverty campaign, calling for free distribution of free sanitary pads. As a menstrual hygiene ambassador of the child's rights NGO CEE-HOPE she featured in a short campaign documentary 'Give US This Day Our Monthly Pads'.

Her outspokenness after Nigerian immigration officials refused to issue her an international passport to represent her country at the International Child's Right Convention in Geneva in 2019, and the demolition of her community in December 2020, have seen her publicly speaking out against government’s injustice against the urban poor.

Follow CEE-HOPE Nigeria on Instagram and watch an interview with Aisha and Angelina Jolie.