De Nsentip Twins, Uforo and Eduek Nsentip, recently has been recognized and featured by the United Nations (UN) Foundation’s in their official website following their numerous community-based interventions and humanitarian activities.
The twin sisters who are citizens of Akwa Ibom State, who are in their second-year as medical students of the University of Uyo and also the founders of the Nsentip Twins Foundation, have been working in the humanitarian space since they were 17 years old.
The twins were featured in Equal Everywhere website, a publication of the UN Foundation, whose aim is to bring the UN and its partners together to achieve systematic change and community support for girls and woman across countries, sectors and issues.
Uforo said that they are gender advocates, and through their work on education and storytelling, they are helping girls and women gain confidence, learn essential life skills to reach their full potential, and defy social stigmas and societal expectations.
On their motivation for their charity work, Eduek noted that they want to be and to build the change they hope to see in the world. She added that seeing the great works of celebrity activists like Priyanka Chopra, Malala Yousafzai, and Angelina Jolie inspired them to join the movement for a better and sustainable world.
According to them, their projects, executed through their foundation, which aims at achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), include the Girls Community for Change project; mentorship programs for female tweens, teens, and young adults; adolescent sexual and reproductive health sensitization; and girls and women’s rights advocacy.
They said they have reached over 5,000 girls and women with their mentorship programs. They expressed hope that with more support, they plan to impact over one million girls and women globally in years to come.
On how the world would look like when girls and women are equal everywhere, Eduek said, “There will be fairness, equality, and justice when it comes to the law. Discrimination and harmful stereotypes will be eradicated, leading to a higher quality of life for everyone.”
While answering the same question, Uforo said, “We are hopeful for a future in which girls will realize that when society confines them to a box, their determination breaks its walls; and when the society calls them failures, their ambitions prove them wrong.”