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Olashile Abayomi

Olashile Abayomi

Social Entrepreneur and Activist

Citation

Olashile Abayomi is a young lady who is passionate about her faith and is not ashamed to share how it has influenced her to touch lives and provide solutions to the needs/problems of underprivileged people with her ministry called Soupastreetministry.

Soupastreetministry provides free food and drinks to indigent people in different locations around Lagos State, Nigeria, with the mission to ensure that underprivileged people have at least one good meal a day. She says that her legacy is that “Old people, children, orphans, and the downtrodden won’t go to bed hungry as long as I am alive!”

Olashile also empowers women as she is very passionate about the plight of underprivileged women and provides some of them with grants to start petty businesses. She is well known in the local markets and underserved communities.

Olashile is an advocate for non-violence against the boy child as well as for women and has helped victims get justice over time through her network and advocacy.

Commendation

For her continued advocacy for victims for justice over time through her network and advocacy, Olashile is commended and celebrated.