Prince Chidiebere Ifoh
Youth Empowerment
Prince Chidiebere Ifoh has seven years of experience in the non-profit sector and is the Founder and President of the Young African Leaders Forum (YALF) - a pan-African organization with the initiative to move Africa to the First World status in record time. A source of inspiration to many African youths, he is also the Editor-in-Chief of Africa's first youth-led journal of development, Young African Leaders Journal of Development (YALJOD).
Prince Chidiebere Ifoh
Prince Chidiebere Ifoh
Whilst serving as a Development Knowledge Facilitator under a one-year United Nations' MDGs project, he helped improve the living conditions of rural dwellers in south-western Nigeria. Through experiences, he developed significant skills in the areas of leadership, youth training, community development, women empowerment, activism and project management. He also possesses quality experience in research, writing, and editing, having served as an Editor in one of Nigeria's foremost educational publishing firm - contributing to the improvement of education in the country through schools' readers and textbooks.
In November 2015, the African Union (AU) named Prince amongst the Africa Youth Heroes who were celebrated at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - where he also presented the development initiative of his organization, YALF.
He is an industrious political writer and social activist whose papers and works are published on several international media, including Ledger Gazette USA, RFI Paris, Trumpet Media UK, The Nation newspapers Nigeria and News24 South Africa.
In October 2016, Prince was the only youth invited to present a paper at the prestigious African Union Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development Processes (AU PCRD) Ten Years of Policy Implementation Workshop. He is a Mentor under the ABC4ALL global mentoring project, a member of the World Leaders Forum Dubai, and is interested in human rights, good governance, civic engagement, women empowerment, and education.
He has launched a campaign against Tuberculosis in Africa, helps to empower women and girl-children in Africa (especially East Africa) through YALF's #SendBetty2School and women empowerment programme. He is serving for two years under the Teach For All vision to eradicate educational inequity in under-served schools and communities within Nigeria.