Spokane, WA
Age
28
Hobbies and interests
Reading
Speech and Debate
Writing
Songwriting
Playwriting
Artificial Intelligence
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Academic
Action
Biography
Business
Art
Adventure
Christian Fiction
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JACOB ALABI
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Growing up in a low-income Nigerian household, I overcame numerous challenges and developed unwavering determination. Witnessing my family's struggles and my brother's dropout from high school fueled my motivation to succeed. In 2020, I participated in a relief mission to a poverty-stricken region in northern Nigeria, which inspired my vision to use aviation to help the remote and underserved. Enrolling in Moody Aviation's program and achieving a 3.697 CGPA within a year, I founded the Mount-Up Aviation Club to promote aviation's potential in reaching isolated areas. With members from multiple nations and notable speakers, including retired airline captains and NASA scientists, the club aims to bring hope to communities in need. My passion is to help people in isolated and underserved communities.
Education
Moody Bible Institute
Bachelor's degree programMajors:
- Air Transportation
- Religion/Religious Studies
- Missions/Missionary Studies and Missiology
Miscellaneous
Desired degree level:
Bachelor's degree program
Graduate schools of interest:
Transfer schools of interest:
Majors of interest:
- Air Transportation
- Missions/Missionary Studies and Missiology
Career
Dream career field:
Airlines/Aviation
Dream career goals:
Using aviation to help isolated communities.
Founder/President
Mount-Up Aviation Club2023 – Present2 yearsHost
JAAlabi Show2022 – Present3 years
Sports
Football
Varsity2015 – Present10 years
Research
Computer Science
Ladoke Akintola University of Technology — Researcher2020 – 2021
Arts
College Algebra Graphing Art
Graphic ArtUsing graph functions for designs2022 – 2022
Public services
Volunteering
Wisdom Scholarship Fund — Co-founder/Administrator2023 – PresentVolunteering
Mount-Up Aviation Club — Founder/President2023 – 2024Volunteering
Theirworld Inc. — Global Youth Ambassador (GYA)2022 – 2024Volunteering
National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) — Corps Member2021 – 2022Volunteering
BiographyHub — Founder/Chief Strategist2021 – 2024Volunteering
Gene That Reads! — Founder2021 – 2024Volunteering
Global Scholarship Summit (GSS) — Member of the Organizing Committee2022 – 2022
Future Interests
Advocacy
Volunteering
Philanthropy
Entrepreneurship
Dema Dimbaya Humanitarianism and Disaster Relief Scholarship
My name is Jacob Alabi. I grew up in Ogbomoso, the peaceful southwestern city of Nigeria. However, in 2020, I sacrificed my comfort zone when the call for disaster relief came from turbulent northern Nigeria. I left my parents and a serene environment that refreshed my heart to attend to the Mumuye people in the hard-to-reach and isolated mountainous ranges of Taraba State. It could be discouraging to travel on Nigerian roads - frequented by hoodlums, paraded by kidnappers, patrolled by terrorists, and with many awkward eventualities. However, nothing would stop the philanthropic desire running within me since then, not even the arduous two-day journey or the threat of Covid-19, which was vehement at the time. People needed help and help they would receive.
The Mumuyes are a wonderful people group but with so many unfortunate situations surrounding them. The first threat to their life is insecurity. It snatches their loved ones from their community structure, recruiting them into illegal streams of armed forces targeted to destroy the nation. Some ended up with Boko Haram (an insurgent group) or another of its kind. Ultimately, they waste themselves and their people.
In addition, education is a hard currency among the Mumuyes. That reflects in all their dealings. Many spend their mornings around large pots of a local gin called Burukutu. They drink it in a stupor and hand the same pattern over to their children. Their youths have almost nothing to do besides the consumption of alcohol and farming (farming to generate income from alcohol). They sank deeper into helplessness without an educational structure to liberate their community. Without sound academics, calling them an underserved community is an understatement. That prompted my action in 2020, swinging to save a people I did not know. Yet I never regret it; I enjoy it.
My impact in their midst included enlightening them about the danger of alcohol. Climbing the mountains for over two hours, I shared hope with the Mumuyes. I went with a team, and we distributed materials to aid their learning processes, transform their communities, and aid their transition into a world of hope. Since the community service and disaster relief, I have been in touch with them. More help is needed, and I decided to turn the gaze of global philanthropists toward the Mumuyes.
Since 2020, sharing about the Mumuyes has been my priority. That has stirred a few people to remember them and eventually go their way to render assistance. However, many people shrink back because, truthfully speaking, the journey up their way can kill. There are odds many would consider. Therefore, I had to find a way to make their going easy and against all odds.
Because of that, I enrolled in missionary aviation technology at Moody Aviation (the aviation department of Moody Bible Institute), Spokane, Washington, USA. In a couple of years, I will earn pilot certificates, which will help me partner with educators, medical practitioners, and other life-transforming professionals globally. My skill as an aviator will come in handy in transporting people and materials to this underrepresented, underserved, and impoverished community.
As I pause, it is no joke that many nations are wounded today, but some are bleeding more than others. Disaster has grasped the veins of Nigeria, and the Mumuyes are feeling its pangs. Their frames are begging for aid; their joints are crying for support. Terrified by terrorism, ridiculed by superstition, and misguided by ignorance, the plea of this isolated society is, "Relief now than ever!" Let us get them the relief they need.