Raquel Kasham Daniel is a
social entrepreneur
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, educator and author of several books including ''FLOW: a girl's guide to menstruation''.
She has received numerous awards for her work with educating marginalised children in
Nigeria
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She is also a recipient of the African Luther King Heroes Award. She founded ''Beyond the Classroom Foundation'' as a response to the social and educational needs of underprivileged children
and created Nzuriaiki.com (now voluserve.com), an online platform that connects nonprofits with volunteers in Africa. She also co-founded Bambini Africa, creators of Bambini Books and Bambini TV.
Early life
According to her account from interviews, Daniel is from
Kaduna State
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and lived in Kaduna and Lagos most of her life. She is the first child in a family of four and the only girl. She lost her dad when she was sixteen and her mother four years later.
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Education
Daniel is an alumnus of University of Lagos
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Bibliography
* ''My First Tracing Book'' (2021)
* ''FLOW: a girl's guide to menstruation''
References
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Living people
Nigerian social entrepreneurs
Founders of charities
Nigerian technology businesspeople
Nigerian writers
Atyap people
Atyap women
People from Kaduna State
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century Nigerian women writers
People from Southern Kaduna
Women from Southern Kaduna
University of Lagos alumni
21st-century Nigerian women
21st-century Nigerian educators