Victor Okechukwu from Nigeria is OD Young Person of the month – March 2025 – YOA

Victor Okechukwu is a passionate Peacebuilder with ardour in direction of attaining a safer  and a saner world for all. He is the Founder and Team Lead at Mind Reformers Network the place he helps to encourage younger folks into peacebuilding and has led the workforce to achieve 5000+ younger Nigerians throughout seven Nigerian cities in Peacebuilding tasks in about seven years. Through his basis, he has organized numerous Peace Talks in faculties, peace outreaches in communities and internally displaced individuals camps and bodily and digital peacebuilding workshops for younger Nigerians. As an Institute for Economics and Peace Ambassador he has facilitated numerous optimistic peace schooling coaching for a whole bunch of Nigerian youths.

Read about his unbelievable journey and be impressed under

Victor began his organisation eight  years in the past in Calabar whereas he was nonetheless an undergraduate pupil of the University of Calabar. He thought of a strategy to attain out to younger ones in Calabar South and Calabar Municipality in opposition to engagement in hooliganism, thuggery, cultism and all types of social vices and that was the starting of what has grown into the internationally recognised Mind Reformers Network. His first undertaking, which he carried out together with his college pals, reached out to 5 chosen faculties in June 2017 and from there, he has led the workforce to arrange numerous tasks throughout numerous elements of the nation in the present day.

He is additionally the instant previous Nigerian Country Coordinator for the Commonwealth Youth Peace Ambassadors Network, a youth led commonwealth initiative geared toward galvanising youth efforts to advertise peace, respect and understanding and to stop violent extremism. He led the community from April 2021 to February 2023.

He then joined the Commonwealth Youth Correspondents workforce the place he writes on youth improvement, peacebuilding and governance associated situation. He received the finest correspondent of the month of March 2024 for his article on Urgent want for peacebuilding via the social media

On his successes

Due to his work over the years he has earned numerous recognitions like; Institute for Economics and Peace Ambassador 2019, Nigerian Youths SDGs Champion 2019, He is an Institute for Economics and Peace Ambassador 2019, Under 30 Afro-Arab Youth Champion 2020, USIP Generation Change Fellow 2022, Rotary Positive Peace Activator 2023, Kofi Annan Changemaker 2024 and a Rotary Peace Fellow 2024.

Challenges

As an adolescent operating a youth led and youth centered organisation, there are sometimes challenges of funds for tasks however that hasn’t been stopping the workforce as the workforce nonetheless attempt to perform tasks. He hopes to be a number one voice for peace globally, pushing for extra intentional inclusion, recognition and safety of the voices of younger peacebuilders and activist in the future.

You can contact Victor Here, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn

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