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MOSES EKWERE Nigeria Moses Ekwere is a youth advocate, human rights
activist,
and
environmentalist
from
Nigeria. He obtained an Advanced International Diploma in Business Administration from NCC Education in 2020 and is currently a final-year (BBA) human resource management student at West End University College in Accra, Ghana. Moses has worked on a variety of cross-cutting development issues.
In 2018, he was the Secretary-General of the National He is an Ariel Foundation International Young Leader
and
Environmental
Ambassador
for
Greenway International Foundation (GIF), a youthled
environmental
protection
organization
Association
of
Nigerian
Students
(NANS)-Ghana Chapter, Ghana's largest foreign students'
organization
and
the
umbrella
organization for all Nigerian students in tertiary institutions across the nation. He worked on
dedicated to achieving a carbon-free world and a
gender inequality and human rights advocacy,
plastic-free ocean.
peace diplomacy, and community development
His major goals align with the United Nations'
outreach,
SDG13 Climate Action and SDG17 Partnership to
professionals and international organizations to
achieve 100% clean energy and a 90% reduction in
achieve set goals. Moses is a game-changer
greenhouse gas emissions. He has been a GIF
with an uncanny ability to read between the
Youth Ambassador since 2018 and has worked with
lines and make things work.
the
research
and
strategy
team
to
develop
sensitization trainings on the impact of plastic use on the ecosystem and life beneath the water. He has made considerable contributions to over one million tree planting and tracking efforts, as well as strategically
supporting
the
anti-plastic
straw
movement. The team has curtailed over 1.2 million plastic
straws
biodegradable,
in
Accra,
edible
disposable straws.
Ghana,
bamboo
by
reusable
using and
as
well
as
collaborated
with
