Watch the YouthLead Ambassadors Webinar on Youth Action in Transforming Education and Achieving the SDGs
Youth have played an important role in developing the Sustainable Development Goals as an inclusive approach to global development. One of SDGs' key components is education (SDG 4), with a goal to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. Many argue that in order to achieve SDG 4 as well as a number of other SDGs, education systems must be transformed.
In line with this year's theme for International Youth Day, "Transforming Education", we invite you to join our next webinar featuring a YouthLead Ambassador from Nigeria, Adebiyi Kehinde; YouthLead team member, Ikenna Anyadike; and Junub Games founder, Lual Mayen. Kehinde, Ikenna, and Lual will share with us how education has impacted them, and what they are doing as young changemakers in transforming education and achieving the SDGs in their various countries.
Speakers:
Adebiyi Kehinde
Kehinde is a YouthLead ambassador, an academic scholar, and a strong Advocate of the SDGs. He currently serves as the Campus Coordinator of SDGsACT LASU which currently accommodate over a thousand students all supporting the global goals. He is currently a senior year student at the Lagos State University, Nigeria. As a testament of his leadership, Kehinde was selected by the United Nations Academic Impact and Millennium Campus Network, Boston , USA as a campus director for the 2018 Millennium Fellowship & Team Lead for Africa Admissions Committee for the 2019 Millennium Fellowship by Millennium Campus Network.
Michael Lual Mayen
Michael Lual Mayen was born in South Sudan. Lual and his family fled to Uganda where he grew up in a refugee camp. Lual is a self-taught game developer, whose experience motivated him to develop peacebuilding and conflict resolution games. He is the Founder of Junub Games, a company that utilizes gaming to build bridges between communities and enhance peaceful behavior. He will talk about his background, and how he was able to acquire skills and follow his passion despite the innumerable obstacles that he faced.
Anyadike Ikenna
Ikenna Anyadike has 7 years of experience in youth development, with specific focus on creating opportunities for exploration, self-discovery, growth and safe spaces for young people. His intervention provides a platform for youth to explore career-paths through identifying their individual personality strengths, and then connecting them with resources that foster the exploration of the things that do not get covered by the academic curriculum. He is an Atlas Corps Fellow in the role of the Knowledge Management, Communications and Youth Engagement Fellow for YouthLead at YouthPower Learning, Making Cents International.