Junior Chamber International (JCI) has officially opened voting to select Jacinta Uramah (A NIGERIAN) as one of the finalist for its annual Ten Outstanding Young Personality (TOYP) of the world award.
The TOYP is an annual event held to honour young people below the age of 40 who have, in their career and community service excelled exceptionally. The finalists are selected from over a 100 countries.
2018 JCI TOYP edition, just like last year too, a Nigerian has been nominated for the award, and fortunately has made it to the top 20, her name is Jacinta Uramah.
In a continent where Food insecurity prevalent, and a country where standard of living is nothing to write home about, Jacinta Uramah saw an opportunity for economic empowerment. She recognized that Agriculture is essential to Nigeria’s economy and a growing number of populations are in the diminishing resources side. Uramah determined that her country needs a more sustainable agricultural ecosystem.
Uramah established The Green Generation Initiative to address this need. Providing support to smallhold farmers and teaching young school children the business of agriculture.
Also, one of her primary aim was to create a sustainable agricultural ecosystem through research, technology and empowerment. The organization focuses in three areas: research development, quality agricultural education and capacity building of actors in the agricultural value chain.
Uramah’s organization has provided training and mentorship to farmers on nutrition assessment, sustainable supply chains, technology in agriculture, food security analysis and market penetration. Her initiative has organized over 2000 rural women into cooperatives that link them with adequate financing for their agricultural services.
At the same time, they have trained teachers and students in vegetable production skills and raised funds for over 120 schools to establish vegetable gardens using climate-smart agricultural practices.
To date, Uramah’s has impacted over 21,000 smallhold farmers and young people across Nigeria while also mobilizing the agricultural industry to redefine its standards for sustainable business, production and consumption. With continued efforts to bring innovation and agriculture to youth, she hopes to transform the minds of a new generation of farmers who will be able to realize the change needed.
She deserves our vote. She has done well for her motherland, and continent at large. To be part of the success story, you all need to vote Umarah. Please go to https://toyp.jci.cc click on Jacinta Uramah, and then click ‘Like’ beneath her biography.
We have only until Friday, August 24th to do this so please start voting now! Use your siblings, colleague at work, and friends gadgets as well… let their vote count.!
