An ex-beauty queen in Nigeria is putting her money where her mouth is.
Tomi Lydia Salami, a social entrepreneur and former beauty queen, is holding an environmental awareness convention for high school students in Lagos on Thursday, the Daily Independent reports.
"Our focus for the 'Catch Them Young' campaign is geared towards the highly impressionable younger generation as we strongly believe that pioneering an environmentally conscious foundation for children early in life will bring about far-reaching success that will spread further and last longer thus establishing children as young Environmental Ambassadors for their various communities," Salami says in a press release.
Salami's foundation, Aurora International Charity Foundation, is focused on clean energy, climate action, and environmental protection.
It has "successfully impacting positively over 30,000 adults, youths, and children across the country using various platforms of education, welfare, empowerment, and health," the press release says.
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