Talk by Mohammed Sabo Keana

The Rights Lab hosted Mohammed Sabo Keana on Wednesday 28th June 2023 for a talk on Child Rights in West Africa.

Mohammed Sabo Keana is a former Obama Scholar and the founder of the Almajiri Child Rights Initiative (ACRI). The ACRI is a support and accountability nonprofit that amplifies the call for education and social inclusion for West Africa’s most at-risk children. ACRI uses a child-rights centered approach to develop and deliver direct support programs for vulnerable out-of-school children in northern Nigeria and raises awareness among policymakers at all levels of governance to bring attention to this issue. ACRI’s child-protection interventions have reached more than 5,000 children across 15 states in northern Nigeria and its advocacy campaigns have garnered international attention and partnerships with the Nigerian government at state and federal levels, the European Union, the African Union, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and the United Nations. 

Mr Keana is a recipient of the Ambassador of Peace award by Universal Peace Federation in Missouri, USA and NCMG International Peace Award Nigeria, for his work with vulnerable children. He is a fellow of the Leap Africa Social Innovators Programme and is passionate about human rights and good governance. In 2019, Mr Keana received the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Action Awards as one of three finalists in the includer category, which recognises extraordinary efforts to ensure that no one is left behind in a country’s sustainable development, a core principle of the 2030 Agenda. In addition to being an Obama Scholar, he is a LEAP African Fellow and a trained microbiologist with a bachelor’s degree from Ahmadu Bello University and a master’s degree in development studies from the Nigerian Defense Academy.

More information available here:

https://www.thecampuswatch.com/2021/09/08/mohammed-sabo-keana-is-now-obama-foundation-scholar/