Join Oluwatimilehin Onafeso, Executive Director, WAAW Foundation at the Social Impact Tech Summit 2025
Oluwatimilehin is a development expert and a program manager par excellence. She has over ten years of experience in the non-profit sector and holds a Master’s degree in Public Health. She has managed projects on health, education, youth and community development with organizations in the public and social sector across West Africa.
In 2003, while an undergraduate, she rendered humanitarian support to 266 Liberian orphaned and vulnerable children at Oru refugee camp in Ogun State. In 2014, she volunteered as a public health officer with the Liberia Ministry of Health during the Ebola outbreak, where she was responsible for community health education and sensitization.
She initiated a project – Spring Africa in 2015, where she provided basic education and skills/talent empowerment to 351 internally-displaced children from North-East Nigeria, across 5 IDP camps in Abuja.
In 2019, based on her diligence and effectiveness in the development sector over the years across several countries, she was given a ‘Humanitarian Award’ by the Global Goodwill Ambassadors (GGA) Foundation, United States of America.
She has a personal brand named ‘Timi Springs’, with the mission to empower people to awaken their hidden treasures thereby revealing God’s glory upon their lives. She hosts a Radio Show called ‘Timi Springs Show’, where she interviews leaders across different spheres of life to share their success stories to inspire the listeners to live a purposeful life.
She is a people person, and an advocate of child’s rights. She has a passion for empowering Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) in different communities. She also has a strong interest in Youth and Leadership Development.
Oluwatimilehin is a member of Carrington Youth Fellowship Alumni Network (CYFAN), an initiative of the U.S. Consulate General Lagos – Nigeria, and an alumna of Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI), an initiative of President Barack Obama.
She enjoys traveling across different cultures and meeting people of different tribes and languages. She believes that ‘Our strength lies in our differences; therefore racism and tribalism should be shunned in our societies.’
Her major professional skills are community development, gender and skills development, project management, proposal writing, monitoring and evaluation, report writing, training, partnership development etc.
Her African Dream: To see an Africa, where every youth is an indispensable citizen, maximizing their potentials towards personal development, community development and national development.
REGISTER NOW to reserve your seat at www.sitsummit.org/register
Date: Friday, January 24, 2025.
Main Venue: J.F. Ade Ajayi
Auditorium, University of Lagos.
Sub venues: American Spaces in Nigeria (For delegates outside Lagos)
Theme: Leveraging Technology Towards Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
For sponsorship, partnership or to exhibit, please contact us at info@sitsummit.org or call 07061531816
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