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Ekaete Judith Umoh has been selected among others as the prestigious Global Ford Fellowship for 2021.
This was announced early in a press release by Ford foundation.
The Global fellowship is a program of Ford Foundation for accomplished global champions, civil civil society leaders, policy makers, social entrepreneurs, and pioneers of social movement around the world. In a rigorous selection process of more than 5000 nomination, her profile and achievements in disabiility and women movement in Nigeria made her nomination a good fit for the fellowship.
Ekaete Umoh is country director at CBM Global Disability Inclusion, fighting to end the cycle of poverty and disability in Nigeria. As national president of the Joint National Association of Persons with Disabilities, she has been involved in the passing of a national law protecting the rights of people with disabilities.
Umoh envisions a just society with equal opportunities for all where people with disabilities can access their rights and achieve their full potential. “We can’t address the world’s injustices without ensuring rights and opportunities for people with disabilities.”
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The Ford Foundation announced that its 2021 Ford Global Fellows, the foundation’s flagship global fellowship program, with a $50 million investment supporting emerging leaders around the world. The announcement doubles the number of fellows slated for its second year and with representation from West Africa. This in an effort to provide more leaders the critical support they need in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic.The 48 new fellows will join the inaugural cohort launched in 2020 and include one Fellow from Togo and Sierra Leone, and two from Nigeria. Together, the three cohorts will comprise 72 (of what will eventually be 240 Fellows over ten years) promising global leaders.
