Olowo Omotoke Titilope has over 4years
experience in education, community service and advocacy for children living
with disabilities. Omotoke currently is a Special Needs
Educator where she
focuses on helping children with Autism, Attention Deficiency Hyperactivity
Disorder (ADHD) in communication and social skills target. She also has
experience volunteering at different NGOs such as Slum2School (where she
focuses on teaching children of migrant fishermen the art of reading and
writing), Dreams from the Slum (where she teaches children creative learning).
She is also the founder of The Autism Awareness Place (TAAP) with focus on
running campaigns, advocacy, trainings and seminars for inclusion of children
with autism and other disabilities. Omotoke holds a Bachelor Degree in Guidance
and Counseling from Obafemi Awolowo University. She also holds a National
Certificate in Education (NCE) from Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education.
She is passionate and committed to grass-root community work, inclusion and
advocacy for equal education for all children irrespective of the disability,
socio-economic background, and/or religion. In the next five years, she sees herself building her Community Based Rehabilitation Center (CBR) – a comprehensive
Centre of excellence for inclusion, training, rehabilitation and integration as
a form of strengthening teachers and providing a blend of learning and therapy
opportunities for children with disability and their total integration into the
mainstream society. Her greatest strength comes from learning to adapt to
situations and people around to seek to understand them and my uncomprising
smile in the face of challenges, her weakness is when people are not time
conscious and forthcoming. Her greatest accomplishment is knowing she has been able to reach over 200 children with disability and put a smile on their
faces through her work at the Autism Awareness Place in Lagos, Nigeria. She is also a fellow for the Global Youth Ambassador UK for Theirworld, and had three
of her articles were published by TheirWorld on Creative Learning for children battling
with cancer, mental and physical disabilities. Also she was recently named an
Ambassador fellow for ROI Africa where one of her works was published on their
blog about educating over 30 children from the slum in Ajegunle, Lagos. Her greatest challenges so far are the inability to reach out to every child with
disability in Lagos at once and to provide an instant cure for this disability.
Her mentor is ADEPEJU JAIYEOBA; she is the founder at mother’s delivery kit and
brown button foundation where she combat mother’s mortality by her mother’s
delivery kit products. Presently, she is effecting change in my community because
of my believe that Education is the right of every child and my work towards
ensuring every child have access to quality education irrespective of their
background, mental health and disability. These she does by educating children with
disability in her community through creative learning by her organization, The
Autism Awareness Place and also organizing volunteers to each over 300 children
at the destitute home (The Hope Foundation organization). She is a very reserved
and simple lady, typically, when she is under pressure she try not to talk and take
a break or try to reason out why someone or a particular situation is making her stress out. Overtime, she has improved my knowledge through online courses,
seminars, training, conference, motivational books reading, on hands training
and practical research. Lastly, she believe; we are all stronger, wiser,
beautiful, and amazing, whatever situations that may surrounds us, you are
meant to shine and not to shrink because by you shinning your light, you give
sight and directions to other people around you and even your community.
Linkedin: luvspeaks
Instagram: luvspeaks
Twitter: @ omotoke_olowo
I have had the privilege of interacting with and learning from this young woman. Her passion and dedication to her work and community service is commendable .
ReplyDeleteI have the opportunity of having a personal relationship with her and her love for community work only supercedes her commitment in her campaign that education is for all...
ReplyDeleteThough I haven't met her in person but she has in one way impacted me and a host of others. I admire her courage, passion and drive towards humanitarian service. God bless you Toke
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