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Mahfuz Alabidun | Nigeria

Mahfuz Alabidun has more than five years of experience in prison education and reform. Mahfuz is the founder and executive director of Inmates Educational Foundation, focusing on providing literacy, numeracy, and adult and advanced education to inmates and incarcerated juveniles as a means of ensuring that both are well educated to enable them to forge ahead in life with a liberated mind. He is a frequent volunteer with social, religious, and political groups. Mahfuz is a postgraduate student in the Department of Educational Management at Lagos State University. Mahfuz is committed to supporting the educational development of inmates, and he is very optimistic about how prisoners in Nigeria will be educationally transformed through his foundation, which he started five years ago. Upon completion of the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders, Mahfuz plans to achieve a five-year goal for inmates and juveniles at correctional centers in Nigeria. By 2029, he hopes to cover 20 correctional centers in Nigerian states in addition to the 1278 inmates and juveniles already impacted, because every inmate deserves a quality education.