Antoinette Okonkwo is a medical student at the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom.
Her decision to start running the NGO after 17 years of inactivity comes from her dedication to help people and make other people’s lives better.
Antoinette has volunteered and given back to her community in different ways in the past 7 years. In secondary school, she was President of the Saint Vincent De Paul Catholic society where/and she organised and raised funds for different orphanages and internally displaced people’s camps in Nigeria.
She also volunteered at OLG Healthcare Foundation and Autism Centre where she worked with kids with Autism and Downs Syndrome.
During her A level Education at Concord College, she volunteered at different care homes and organised fundraising events for different charities and organisations.
In her 2nd year at the University of Sheffield, she completed a listening course and training with the South Yorkshire Chaplaincy and Listening Service and is very excited to start volunteering with Psychiatric Decision Unit at the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield.
She is currently on the British Stamma Organisation youth panel where she is dedicated to helping people like her who stammer to get the help and resources that they need and to create a safe space where they can talk about the challenges of being a stammerer
Antoinette is really interested in providing resources and facilities necessary to improve healthcare and education in Nigeria. Her goal is for healthcare and education to be easily accessible and available for women and children in Africa. She is also excited to work with other organisations and agencies to achieve her goal.