From One Girl'S Dream to an Opening for Others: The Samuel Ioron Foundation'S Journey

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When Ngunan Ioron-Aloho graduated from Nigeria's Benue State University in 2013 with a bachelor's degree in law, she had one thing on her mind: "How different things would have been for me if I lived in a village, and or without the support I had during college, I would have been a school dropout, without access to knowing what is possible with education," the then-16-year-old tells Time.

That's when she decided to do something about it.

"I was thinking about how many girls were forced to get married instead of continuing their education, and the challenges we face even when in school," she says.

"Without the right kind of support, knowledge, a girl is like a prey in a forest, waiting to be hunted.

I wanted to create a space where women, girls, we could have discussion about these issues, and proffer solutions to them."

That space, the Samuel Ioron Foundation, was born.

Ioron-Aloho is now a student at the University of York in the UK, where she's studying for a Master's degree in Comparative and International Social Policy.

She says her father, who died when she was 11 years old, helped her get through

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