Meet UI Student who just Became ECOWAS Youth Ambassador and is changing the World










Praise-God Awoyemi is a final year Veterinary Medical Student at the University of Ibadan. He is ECOWAS Youth Ambassador and Recipient of the Nelson Mandela’s Leadership Award of Excellence and Integrity. He is a 2020 Commonwealth 100 Open Source leader and Campus Ambassador for International Model United Nations and Project Statescraft, a youth led policy think tank organization based in India. 

Praise-God Awoyemi is a Civic leader and has attended business and leadership conferences within and outside Nigeria. Praise-God Awoyemi is an active volunteer in many organizations involved in social impact. He is an ardent believer in the potential of youths like himself in the positive transformation of the society.

His Enthusiasm for knowledge and leading initiatives has earned him  over 30 certificates in areas cut across diverse aspects of public health, leadership advocacy, human capital development, entrepreneurship and gender equality as well as membership in more than 10 local and international organizations where he is either volunteering, leading or rendering professional services

SOME OF HIS VOLUNTEERING AND LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE INCLUDE:


— State Project Manager, Hephzibah Mission where he successfully coordinated an Outreach to a Maternity Centre to assist 60 pregnant women have safe delivery who are at the risk of having anaemia or birth complications in pregnancy.

— State President- Nigeria Fellowship of Evangelical Students: where he oversees or coordinates nine (9) tertiary Institutions in Oyo state with about 180 Leaders and 1200 student membership.

— Founder, Young Climate Champions: In 2022, he founded Young Climate Champions, a startup that aims to use Innovative technology and Artificial Intelligence to tackle global warming and climate change issues in Africa such as severe flooding, famine, pollution etc. He and his team hope to raise a community of 10,000 Young Climate Champions in the next 5 years that would be involved in tree planting and advocacy on global warming reduction. 

He is organizing an Advocacy Program at different Secondary Schools in Abuja environs on Young Climate Action and a Food Bank for Internally Displaced People’s (IDP) Camp for those suffering from Insecurity Challenges in the dreaded North Eastern region and victims of flood and other climatic factors.

Praise-God Awoyemi is an amazingly versatile person gifted in public speaking, leadership, management, strategy, innovation, problem solving and critical thinking. 

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