Hope Jeremiah Offor: Sexual & Reproductive Health Advocate

Today we shall be profiling an amazing young man from the World's most populous black nation; Nigeria.

His name is Hope Jeremiah Offor. Offor is a recent graduate of one of Nigeria's most prestigious Universities; The University of Benin, where he studied Medical laboratory Science with specialty in Histopathology and Cytopathological diagnosis where he graduated with a second class upper division.

Offor at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Accra

Sexual and Reproductive Health Advocate

This committed and driven young man is passionate about the Sustainable Development Goals particularly regarding the SDG 3 target 7 and SDG 5 target 6 that talks about increasing universal access to sexual and reproductive health services, he strongly believe that prioritizing young people’s sexual and reproductive health and rights is key in empowering African youths in achieving the demographic dividends.

Offor is an alumnus of the President Barrack Obama initiated/US government funded Young African Leaders Initiative training that took place at Accra, Ghana in 2017.

With fellow participants at Accra, Ghana

Out of an applicant pool of over 4,000 young Africans from 11 countries in West Africa this young leader made it among the selected few to attend the 5 weeks long leadership training for young Africans who have demonstrated leadership in their local communities. He was recently accepted into the 2018/2019 class of the Women Deliver Youth Leaders; a program of the World leading NGO fighting for Women rights, out of over 9,000 young leaders across 130 countries working to improve the lives of Women again Offor was selected among the very few into this class.

Offor identifies himself as a creative critical thinker where he is proficient at the evaluation of sources such as data, facts, observable phenomenon, and research findings and can draw reasonable conclusions from a set of information and discriminate between useful and less useful details for solving a problem or making a decision. With this skillset he has been able to create and iterate some solutions for some SDG challenges in Nigeria as regarding young people sexual and reproductive health and rights.

We wish this amazing change maker further success in his quest.