I pride myself on being an aspiring, enterprising and purposeful individual. I always set goals for myself and do my utmost best to achieve them. I see challenges and setbacks as avenues to re-strategize and apply an approach that could be solve such challenges that would be beneficial to the community.For example, my country of origin, Nigeria is faced with many socioeconomic issues such as inadequate Health facilities and bad roads which led to many deaths from road traffic accidents. Nigeria has the second highest road traffic accidents fatalities out of 193 countries in the survey. She records 162 deaths per 100,000 in road accidents. Those mostly affected are the energetic ones between the age group of 15 to 45 years old. The need to reduce this trend, led me to join the Angels on Mission Initiative to make an impact to the communities by providing healthcare for patients under an emergency life line and related medical service regardless of their inability to pay.

The most tragic situation today are the young and educated people dying daily due to the fact that there is little in which the government alone can do to care for these victims. I was able to make an impact by helping patients who couldn’t afford to pay or unconscious to even disclose their identity pay the required fee for the emergency treatment. The objective was to save in emergency situation. I was also able to enlighten the communities by teaming up to provide multi-sectorial sustainable programs that bridge emergency relief and long term development at the grassroots level.

Another substantial community achievement  was participating in a mentoring and tutoring program that created opportunities for the recipients to obtain a High School and college education. Shortly after I started my banking career in UBA, I joined a group of people offering community service on education to the rural poor in the community. During this period I realized how difficult it was for children of the downtrodden to acquire basic education, talk more of obtaining a college degree. To assist these kids, I started allocating part of my time each weekend to tutoring and mentoring these students. I also took two young students under my care with the goal of helping them pass the national college entrance exam that would qualify them to into universities. After a year of hard work, we succeeded. The students passed the national college exam and won the government scholarship into college. Today, they have graduated out of college. Their success is part of my accomplishment because today they act as icon of hope to other less privileged children. I believe it is always better to give to the community and also impact lives that could positively affect generations to come.