Charity Event 2022 – Ending Menstrual Poverty

On August 1st, 2022, OGAV successfully completed the distribution of reusable pads to over 1000+ adolescent girls and provided boys and parents with training and education on girls’ menstrual maintenance. Together, these provide a sustainable solution and sustainable support system, respectively.

The event was our first full in-person event as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, and was a successful one too!

Event highlights are included below:

About our Founder

OLUBUSOLA KOLADE studied at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria from where she graduated with an Honor’s degree in Food Science and Technology. She later proceeded to Reading University, England for her Master’s degree in Food Quality Control. She went back for second Master’s Degree at Brunel University London, England for Masters in Environmental Pollution Science with Project Management. Shortly after, she immigrated to Canada and took up an appointment with Ryerson Polytechnic University as an Asst. Professor in the Science department. Olubusola has been an educator in the secondary sector in the last fifteen years with the Toronto District School Board (TDSB). Her passion for the youth and the need to “catch them young” as she says, made her to go back to Teachers College at Brock University, Hamilton, Canada and since then, has been an employee of TDSB as a teacher. Her passion for the young ones to succeed motivates her to chair/co-chair different initiatives, such as Character Education, the Student Recognition award, the Outstanding Student of the Month Award and the Equity Committee. Olubusola is a firm believer in mentoring youth. She thinks that no youth should be left behind but equipped to achieve success and that good…

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