About

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Let’s build something together.

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I am Oluwadamilola Akintewe, 20 year old law student and social entrepreneur living in Ondo State, Nigeria.

I am a fan of education, entrepreneurship, and volunteering as I have over four years experience in these fields.

At 14, I finished 3rd at a Nation Wide Television Show, Read to Lead Africa which was broadcasted across four continents and twenty countries. There, I carted away the Best Debater and Most Outspoken housemate Award and got the chance to meet the then Commissioner for Education in Ondo State, Nigeria plus a scholarship to study law in the University

Growing up in a rural community, I’ve seen poverty first hand and I’ve been advocating and creating platforms to reach people and add value to their lives.

That is why I started Project Rebirth which is about training rural low income earning women in sewing skills to improve their lifestyle and give them a source of income generation to cater for their families and children’s education.

The rate of poverty, unemployment and ignorance in these communities has reduced the importance of education in the minds of people and some fail to subscribe to it.

My team and I create a link between trainers and the trainees to get the equipped with skills. We also secured fundings to start up the women in their enterprises. This reduced the rate of child labor seen in the community. Women in 8 communities and counting has been impacted.

I am also actively involved in education as I founded a not-for-profit called “The Ethelontis” to connect students in rural communities who lack access to adequate learning facilities with their counterparts and mentors from urban areas through virtual learning. This is an alternative module to create a global mindset among these students as we impact their lives and open their minds to innovations. This further translates to local globalization

The Ethelontis is in partnership with other young change minded persons and we have teams in India and Italy.

Another angle is the #LetGirlsLead campaign to raise awareness for the importance of the girl child education in rural communities.

This project has gone to 10 communities and villages, reeducating the elderly ones on the importance of training their daughters while citing examples of other women who changed the world through education to encourage the parents.

The project was successful and saw girls to the tune of 2000 being enrolled again in schools and several of them in senior classes registering for examinations to forward to the University.

I am an Ashoka Lead Young Fellow, an African Young Leader of Teennation, a fellow of the Female and More Leadership Cohort.

I participated in the World Innovation Summit for Education, 2018, selected for the International Youthopia Conference in Karachi, Pakistan 2018 and the Global Education and Skills Forum in Dubai, 2019

If you don’t see me strumming my guitar to a Taylor Swift song, I’ll be setting up my camera, shooting docu-stories on my researches on education in rural communities, one of which was submitted for the International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement (ICSEI) in Morocco, 2020.

Wanting to spotlight other young people driving change, I developed the contents for an online magazine, Doxa and with no prior knowledge in the industry, we got a thousand downloads in the first week. Interested? pick up a copy at http://www.doxamagazine.com, it’s totally free!

I also love carving my thoughts into words as poetry and good music are my medicine. My anthology about racing teen is coming soon. Watch this space.

Bucket list?
I want to travel to all the countries of the world

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