Kolawole Olatosimi Adenola was born on 30th April in the early 70s in the south-west region of Nigeria. He had his primary and secondary education in Lagos before proceeding to Oyo state for his university education. Mr Kolawole Olatosimi has been involved with activities concerning children and youth for more than 15 years.
He started teaching children in the Sunday school of his local church. It is believed that his passion for working with children was developed at this stage of his life. Mr Kolawole has facilitated many programs and workshops involving children and youth matter.
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Some of such programs are:
- Participant at the Training on Emergency Preparedness, and Response Plans for Children organised by UNICEF, 20th to 22nd October 2010.
- Participant on the capacity development on Child Protection organised by UNICEF, 7th to 11th December 2010.
- Participant at the Unicef Capacity Building for Civil Society Organizations on Programme Management, Resource mobilisation, Documentation and Communication skills, Abuja, September 4th – 7th 2007.
- Participated in the review meeting of CSOs/ and the Federal Government on Achieving the Millennium Development Goals through Budget implementation, 16th June 2009.
- Participant at the National Workshop on the Menace of Human Trafficking, Child Labour and Abuse organised by NAPTIP, 18th to 19th of August 2010.
- Participant and member of Communiqué development at the National Workshop on Child Domestic Labour, its harmful effect and available alternative organised by NAPTIP, 12th to 13th October 2010.
- Participant in a train the trainer workshop on the child rights monitoring and documentation by UNICEF and bar human rights committee of England and Wales, 11th to 13th October 2011.
- Led the CSOs delegates that presented the complimentary report on implementing the African charter on the child’s rights and welfare to the committee of experts in 2018. He is presently the program coordinator at the child and youth protection foundation.