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Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University (COOU) has announced a caller ₦500,000 yearly prize for its Faculty of Law, endowed by alumna Summer Okibe, an Energy and Development Lawyer and climate-justice advocator who presently serves arsenic a Just Energy Transition Analyst with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and arsenic an Energy Policy Analyst with the Government of Alberta.
The grant volition beryllium presented each twelvemonth for the adjacent 5 years to the champion graduating pistillate pupil of the Faculty of Law, recognising world excellence, enactment and a committedness to ineligible practice.
“This prize is my mode of saying to young women: you beryllium astatine the apical of the table” Okibe said astatine the unveiling represented by Associate Professor Ikenna Ibe. When I walked the halls of COOU arsenic a instrumentality student, I often dreamt of a aboriginal wherever women similar maine would beryllium supported to scope their afloat potential. I’m grateful that I tin present lend to making that aboriginal existent for others.”
According to the Dean of the Faculty of Law, the inaugural volition person ripple effects beyond the grant itself.
“Summer’s generosity is simply a landmark measurement that volition permission an indelible people connected our brightest young women and the ineligible assemblage astatine large. We are arrogant of her achievements and inspired by her determination to put backmost into the instauration that nurtured her,” helium said.
While the grant shines a spotlight connected ineligible education, Okibe’s wider enactment blends vigor access, clime change, and economical improvement for marginalised communities. In her relation astatine UNDP, she contributes to programmes that widen sustainable vigor entree portion advancing sex equity and clime justice.
She has besides channelled her passionateness into nonstop assemblage projects: implicit 300 acquisition grants and scholarships for girls and youth, mentorship initiatives connecting African students to planetary opportunities, and, currently, the operation of a tuition-free, solar-powered schoolhouse for underprivileged children successful Enugu.
The schoolhouse embodies her content that cleanable vigor and acquisition tin enactment hand-in-hand to alteration lives.
The inaugural recipient of the Summer Okibe Prize volition beryllium announced astatine COOU’s adjacent convocation. For Okibe, the grant is lone 1 portion of a larger journey:
“I anticipation this prize becomes a contented that outlives me. More than anything, I privation it to affirm for each young pistillate studying instrumentality that excellence is not lone expected of her but celebrated.”
To travel Summer Okibe’s enactment and initiatives, link with her connected LinkedIn, X (Twitter), and Instagram.
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