Amy Jadesimi, managing director of Lagos Deep Offshore Logistics (LADOL) Base, has been nominated as one of the global leaders recently invited to join the inaugural Advisory Group for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
Jadesimi was selected as an important partner with unique expertise, who could help to expand UNICEF’s vital work to address the enormous challenges and rapidly changing environment faced by children across the world.
The Advisory Group will serve as an independent sounding board and “think-tank,” to explore lessons learned and exchange fresh ideas and perspectives on top-line global issues and developments affecting children and young people worldwide.
The inaugural meeting of the Advisory Group was held in New York at the United Nations headquarters in the first week of May 2019.
“It’s a great honour to be asked to join the UNICEF Advisory Group. Coming from Nigeria, a country where 41 percent of the population is below the age of 15, I am particularly keen to focus on improving the lives of young people. The innovations that UNICEF is already working on can transform billions of lives and help us achieve United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),” Jadesimi said.
UNICEF works in 190 countries, with the aim of saving children’s lives, defending their rights, and helping them to fulfil their potentials, from childhood through adolescence.
Its work covers a range of areas and initiatives including: promoting policies and expanding access to services that protect children; helping to reduce child mortality all over the world; supporting quality learning for every girl and boy, especially those in the greatest danger and working to reach children and families with life-saving aid and long-term assistance and among others.
LADOL is building the world’s first Sustainable Industrial Special Economic Zone (SISEZ), using UN’s SDGs to build a unique circular ecosystem, servicing a range of industries.
AMAKA ANAGOR-EWUZIE
