The doers
Climate Change Activists
Anjola Olanrewaju
In 2019, Anjola was selected by the Creative Youth Community Development Initiative (CYCDI) and 16 other children for Solution17 for United Nations Convention on the Child's Rights. The project was supported by The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) to provide a platform for children to contribute to the conversations on children's rights and to illustrate what it means to them through literary arts to mark 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The painting was a direct interpretation of the poem originally written by Prof. Wole Soyinka CLICK HERE
She is also an advocate for Climate change, and Solution17 recently selected her for Climate Action in Africa to create a masterpiece on the topic- "Lessons learnt from COVID19 to fight Climate Crisis: A Race We Must Win". The paintings were officially launched in September 2020 by United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed.
In July 2021, she was invited to Abuja by UNICEF Nigeria as Moderator during the launch of Generation Unlimited in Nigeria. UNICEF also selected Anjolaoluwa to create content on Climate Action for the 2021 youth mediathon campaign organized by UNICEF Voices of the Youth. Presently she creates content for UNICEF Nigeria on TikTok.
Michael Oluwatobiloba Titiloye
Tobi is a student at CG Spectrum College of Digital Arts and Animation in Australia. He began his career as an artist on the platform of Vision of The Child (VoTC) at the age of 12.
In 2014, he participated in a VoTC competition titled “The Road to Sambisa” and won his first award. The award propelled him to engage in nation-building projects through Painting, Poetry, and Literary Arts.
In 2020, Creative Youth Community Development Initiative (CYCDI) nominated Michael and five other teenagers as Climate Change Artist and Activist for Solution17 for Climate Action.
Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed launched Solution17 Art for Climate Change in September 2020.
He is a proud and active advocate of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and Solution 17. His works are generating awareness towards COP26, Climate Change Adaptation and the Green Entrepreneurs
Oluchi Nwaokorie
Oluchi is a Climate Change Activist and a Civil and Environmental Engineering
student at the University of Lagos. She is the CEO and Founder of the youth-led
organization REFORMERS SDG 13, which centres around Climate Change and Waste
Management. She is a multi-award-winning artist at the Creative Youth Community
Development Initiative. She is currently an artist at Solution 17 for Climate Action,
where she uses her talent, voice, and projects to solve national and global issues.
Oluchi is very passionate, hardworking, and brilliant, and she resonates
this in everything she does. Her passion for the environment, innovation, and sustainability
has driven her dreams and shaped her lifestyle into a climate change superhero.
She is a scholar at her university and is a recipient of the UNDP basket non-conditional
seed funding funded by the Japanese government to support her organization during the
COVID pandemic.
She is a finalist at the “Naija Climate Now” project alongside
other green entrepreneurs. Her organization comprises 40 youths from across Nigeria,
all working towards solving the climate crisis through awareness creation in secondary
schools, cleanups in traffic areas in their communities, and the conversion of these
wastes to useful
Victory Ashaka
He is artistically inclined with a passion for oratory. His artistic and literary prowess has earned him awards, certifications and autographs from prominent dignitaries.
Victory is an undergraduate student of English Literature at Lagos State University(LASU). He is the President of the Literary Voice Club and Vice President of LASU Debate Society.
Victory is well known as a social impact maker and high-energy spoken word performer. He is a youth advocate of the Creative Youth Community Development Initiative and Generation Unlimited Initiative.
He emerged as a Solution-17 Artist for Climate Action in Africa, National Champion of Speak Pro public speaking competition, winner of WESTCOSELS intervarsity spoken word contest, National Orientation Agency spoken word winner, Wikipedia creative challenge winner and the winner of Light-Up Africa Development Initiative creative contest. He is presently in a team of changemakers advancing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
His mantra is to serve humanity and be a beacon of hope for others to find their path.
