Jennifer Uchendu
| Jennifer Uchendu | |
|---|---|
| Born | 10th of August,1992 Lagos, Nigeria |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Nigerian |
| 🏫 Education | |
| 💼 Occupation | A Nigerian Ecofeminist |
| Known for | Founder of SustyVibes, Mandela Washington Fellows |
Jennifer Uchendu is a Nigerian ecofeminist and sustainable development advocate. She is the founder of an online Nigerian making sustainabilityy, actionable and interesting for young Nigerians.
She was born 10 of August 1992 Uchendu lived her early days in lagos.She graduate from covenant university with a bachelor's degree in biochemistry.
She's the founder of a social enterprise called SustyVibes.[1][2][3][4]
Early life
Born 10th of August,1992, Uchendu lived her early days in Lagos, where she attended primary and secondary school. She graduated from Covenant University with a bachelor's degree in biochemistry.[5]
Advocacy
In 2016, Uchendu founded SustyVibes, a social enterprise making sustainability actionable for young people in Nigeria through projects, products and policies. SustyVibes was born out of the need to create a platform where Nigerian youths can contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals through pop-cultural tools like music, photography, movies, tourism etc.[6][7][8][9]
SustyVibes is a combination of Sustainable and Vibes which seeks to make sustainable development an interesting engagements for youths through an online platform where everyone can learn about sustainability news in Nigeria.[10][11]
Since inception, the organization has trained over 2000 students from different schools and has a network of over 200 volunteers in Nigeria.[12] SustyVibes organized a one-day workshop on "Youth Leading Sustainability" during the International Youth Day in Rivers State in 2016.[13]
SustyVibes in partnership with the British High commission embarked on a community-based tree planting and climate advocacy project which was aimed to plant 5000 trees in Lagos and Abuja by April 2021.
On the 5th of December, 2020, the #Communitrees project commenced alongside an advocacy drive among community members. They planted indigenous trees in selected communities across Lagos and Abuja while stimulating both online and physical conversations on the pivotal role of tree planting in climate action.[14][15]
Awards and recognitions
- 2019 Chevening Scholarship
- 2018 Mandela Washington Fellowship[16]
- 2018 Gates Foundation GoalKeeper
- 2017 SME100 Africa Winner, Sustainability and Energy Category[17]
- 2017 WIMBIZ Impact Investment Prize, 2nd Runner-up[18]
References
- ↑ "MY INTERVIEW WITH JENNIFER UCHENDU OF SUSTYVIBES – GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY". April 2017. Archived from the original on 2021-04-20. Retrieved 2021-11-19.
- ↑ "TEDxCovenantUniversity". Retrieved 28 October 2017.
- ↑ "BN Climate Change Conversation: Jennifer Reminds us that We Have a Crisis on Our Hands & We Need to Act NOW". 18 October 2019. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
- ↑ "22 diverse voices to follow on Twitter this Earth Day". 18 April 2019. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
- ↑ "Meet 5 of Africa's Game-Changing Female Renewable Energy Leaders – Issue #1".[permanent dead link]
- ↑ "SustyVibes to hold 1st ever environmental awareness photography exhibition in December". Archived from the original on 8 November 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
- ↑ "Lagos litter pickers want to clean up Nigeria's streets". BBC News. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
- ↑ "SustyVibes is cleaning Nigeria, one party at a time". 14 November 2018. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
- ↑ "UN Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth at the 63rd session of the Commission on the Status of Women".
- ↑ "My Stroll with Jennifer Uchendu, Founder, SustyVibes". 12 September 2016.
- ↑ "Working Towards a Sustainable Nigeria".
- ↑ "Young Entrepreneurs: Jennifer Uchendu". Archived from the original on 29 January 2020. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
- ↑ "How Can Young People Around the World Lead Sustainability?". Archived from the original on 2020-01-12. Retrieved 2021-11-19.
- ↑ "SustyVibes Set to Commence the #Communitrees Tree Planting and Advocacy Project". 8 February 2021.
- ↑ "We're making sustainability actionable for young Africans".
- ↑ "Jennifer Olachi Uchendu". Archived from the original on 2020-01-12. Retrieved 2021-11-19.
- ↑ "SME100 Rewards 25 Young Nigerian Entrepreneurs".
- ↑ "Wimbiz Spotlights Africa's Current Greatest Resource".
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- Alumni of the University of Cambridge
- Ecofeminists
- Nigerian women company founders
- Covenant University alumni
- Nigerian nonprofit businesspeople
- 21st-century businesswomen
- 1992 births
- Nigerian women environmentalists
- Nigerian feminists
- Businesspeople from Lagos
- Nigerian women business executives
- Nigerian expatriates in the United Kingdom
