Yetunde Adeseluka – Oladejo
Convener, The Girls’Count Initiative and Nutrition Specialist, Solina Centre for International Development and Research

Yetunde Adeseluka – Oladejo has over 5 years of experience in public health programming and project management. She is a Nutrition Specialist at Solina Centre for International Development and Research, focusing on improving maternal, adolescent girls, infant, and young children’s health.

She has volunteered for several NGOs, won an Active Citizenship Award 2021 in the Health Category, a top 35 finalist of the YALAwards, the Gambia, a 2021 YALI fellow, West Africa, a 2022 Mandela Washington Fellow, USA, 2022 ACEA fellow, a 2023 International Maternal New born Health Fellow, South Africa and she is the author of the e-books; Every Mother’s Secret – KiddiesRecipePad, Boost Your Breast Milk Food Guide and PregMumCare Food Guide which has helped hundreds of fathers, pregnant, and nursing mothers make informed food and health choices for their children’s optimal growth and well-being with the end goal of ending the scourge of malnutrition in children under 5.

Yetunde is the convener of The Girls’ Count Initiative, a voluntary not-for-profit initiative with a vision to improve the health, well-being and provide sustainable empowerment opportunities for adolescent girls, women, orphans and vulnerable children particularly in rural and semi-urban communities while working to drive policies that focus on gender equality, access to education and ending hunger in vulnerable households.

Some of the core projects of the initiative are the SheHeroes Sustainable Menstrual Hygiene Project which has reached 2,750 women and girls with proper menstrual, sexual and reproductive health education and free washable, reusable sanitary pads and working towards reaching 10,000 by the end of 2023; She Learned, Empowerment and Mentorship Project which has reached 600 women, girls and youth in the preliminary phase and currently enrolling some based on availability of funds and sponsoring their training fees at their respective skills acquisition schools – a project aimed at raising 5,000 highly skilled, financially independent women, girls and boys in the next 2 years to have sustainable sources of income to live a sustainable livelihood; Heavenly Food Bank aimed to reducing food and nutrition security in vulnerable households.

Yetunde holds a Bachelor’s degree in Medical Biochemistry, a Master’s degree in Public Health and a Civic Leadership Training Certificate from Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey, USA. Yetunde is committed to her vision to see a society where women, girls, orphans and vulnerable children in low-income settings in Nigeria and Africa have access to good health and well-being, education, food and empowerment opportunities to contribute sustainably to their livelihood, their families, the nation, the world in the context of LEAVING NO ONE BEHIND!

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