Peace Ayo Adegbola

Peace Ayo Adegbola is an 18-year-old education enthusiast. She is the first child of three children. Growing up in Waru, an underserved community in Nigeria’s Abuja where girl child education is undermined, became a motivation for her to co-found Youth Advocates for Sustainable Development -a non-governmental organisation with her father, who is also her best friend. Since age 13, Peace Ayo has carried out series of campaigns such as the ' Back to school' project where book donations was organised for school children who couldn't afford books to resume school at the summer break; The 'Sanitary Pad' project where donations were made to adolescent girls who could not afford sanitary pads; and the 'Girls Must Go To School' project with 17 girls currently enrolled in secondary school and 70 children in primary school.

Peace Ayo is also a Malala Fund Girl child advocate, At age 15, Peace Ayo represented Malala Yousafzai at the 2018 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London speaking on the Importance of Girl child education. Peace wishes to see a world where every woman and girl in the world take center stage in decision making.

One action Peace would like you to do:

"I would really like people to keep talking, keep tweeting and keep advocating for policies that promote free, quality and safe education for every Nigerian child."