About Olumide Idowu
Olumide ‘Lumee Idowu is a Graduate of Statistics, University of
Abuja, FCT. He established Youth Alive Initiative (YAI) in 2007 to
address the challenges faced by youth in the community.
As a teenager, Olumide organized youth club meetings in his home
during which members discussed youth related issues. As a result, his
passion for change leads him to initiative Youth Alive Initiative
(YAI), which focuses on providing support and training for young
people in several areas including HIV/AIDS, Peer Pressure, Self
Confidence and United Nations Millennium Development Goals through the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
Youth Alive Initiative (YAI) runs youth-friendly, gender sensitive in
Abuja which provides a platform for healthily interaction and
counseling for young people.
Olumide 'Lumee Idowu has implemented several projects which includes a Computer literacy project and the Switch ICT Project. These projects have collectively reached 1,500 young Nigerians.
Olumide 'Lumee Idowu is a critical thinker, advocator, good risk
taker, facilitator, young development actor with special interest in
youth entrepreneurship and ICT (Information Communication Technology)
capacity building. Presently an Ambassador for Microsoft Nigeria.
(MISSPIN).
He volunteered for a youth-led capacity building and involved in
wonderful youth activities which includes Youth Alive Initiative as
the National Coordinator, Project Director AIESEC Abuja-Nigeria (July
2007 till date), founding member of One Magazine, Integrity Magazine.
Development in Africa (Abuja Coordinator).
Olumide 'Lumee Idowu is a writer of articles, poems, both short and
long stories and all kinds of writing. Writer with some magazines in
Nigeria like the Comet, Vanguard, and some other Magazines in my
present institution magazines.
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