Nonso Peter Okafor

Nonso Peter Okafor has over eight years of experience training young people in entrepreneurship skills with a goal to make them job-creators instead of job seekers and to decrease the unemployment rate in Nigeria. He is the founder of Operation Be Your Own Boss Initiative where he organizes workshops that have empowered over 57,000 youths. He is also the founder and President of Newbreed Youth Organization, an NGO that focuses on youth empowerment, leadership development, and community service. Nonso Peter Okafor holds the 2009 Nigerian Youth Leadership Award of LEAP Africa/IYF in recognition of his measurable impact in the area of youth leadership and community service and also the 2010 Henry Dunant Gold Medal of the Nigerian Red Cross Society for his service to humanity. He is a 2012 alumnus of the Discovering Young Leaders Program (DYLP) of the Commonwealth Secretariat, Lusaka, Zambia. Upon completion of the Washington Fellowship, Nonso plans to scale up his activities in the areas of promoting entrepreneurship and galvanizing youth for community service.