They believed that service was what each human owed other humans. I joined Red Cross as a pre-teen because I wanted to ease the suffering of others a… - Adetola Salau

I had made up my mind that I wanted to be somebody who's going to clean up the water and this pushed me to research. I was 12 or 13 years old at the time. When I did research in the library, I found out that the people who engaged in solving problems by systems were engineers, particularly chemical engineers. So I decided to become a chemical engineer.

I began to think like an advocate from an early age looking back, I have always been drawn to helping the underdog or rooting for them in stories that I read.

I learned that it was better to focus upon serving others than dwell upon my own life’s issues.