OBV Volunteer Mems Ayinla: AAA+ student

Like many students across the country last Thursday was a day that couldn’t come quick enough. Mems has spent the last four weeks volunteering with OBV, but every now and then she’d comment about her pending results and how they might change her life.

She needn’t have worried. Mems excelled way beyond her expectation receiving 3 A’s and one star A. In a few months time, her life will dramatically change as a student who’ll go to the prestigious Warwick University to study law and international study.

But a glittering academic career was not always on the cards. At 11 she failed an entrance exam to her local grammar school. She recalls her primary school teacher telling her that she was not Grammar school material. It was only after her parents pushed her and Mems herself wanting to prove her teacher wrong that she was able to achieve the grades which made her local Grammar school think again. Second time round she was given a place.

Academically gifted she might be, but one of her greatest qualities has been her work ethic and an abundance of humility. ‘I’m here to help, and learn from this wonderful organization’, she proclaimed when she arrived. And for the last month or so she’s been doing just that.

Of course we’ll soon lose her, but as all OBV volunteers and staff they become part of the OBV family. I suspect this member of the family we’ll all see again sometime soon, taking her skills on a bigger, greater stage.

For now, well done Mems

Simon Woolley