Eniiwaju Etomi - July Winner
Eniiwaju has been honoured with the Good Citizen Award for her tireless efforts in bettering the community of Coventry. For over 15 years Eniiwaju Etomi has served as the senior pastor of Redeemed Christian Church of God HGZ in Coventry, during this period she has served as a volunteer with youth offending services to prevent youth reoffending and acts as a role model and life coach to many teenagers and young adults to help guide them on the right path. Alongside the work Eniiwaju does with young people she also works with black ethnic minorities to help integrate them in to the wider community of Coventry, recently working with the Coventry UK City of Culture 2021 Bid team to raise awareness among BEM communities so that they could actively.
Additionally, in 2005 Eniiwaju set up a project called “Free Lunch on Jesus” the aim of the project is to distribute free food hampers to less privileged and deprived families who cannot afford food during the festive season. Since 2005 thousands of food hampers have been distributed to various families within Coventry with the distribution of 650 food hampers in Wood End alone in December 2017.
It is evident that through Eniiwaju’s work she has shown tremendous commitment to the people of Coventry by investing her time, efforts and resources to help others in her community, her actions properly reflect her character and she is a worthy recipient of this Good Citizen Award.