We are proud to welcome our new Project Coordinator and Deputy Director, Ndeye Diodio Calloga, to our SpringACT team.
Diodio is a human rights activist and passionate advocate. She was the former Secretary General and legal advisor of Maison de la Gare, which advocates for and assists the over 50,000 enslaved children in West Africa. Diodio has led and managed multilateral projects supported by the United Nations, the European Union, the Global Fund for Children and the U.S. State Department. She has devoted 6 years to the protection of vulnerable children and women by militating for the respect of their rights and by accompanying them from care to socio-professional integration. Moreover, deeply convinced that human rights must be understood by the communities to be applied and respected, she piloted a large sensitisation programme and team that visited all the regions and many villages of Senegal to meet the communities, understand their realities, and teach them about human rights in their local languages.
A winner of the 2012 International African Moot Court Competition, she holds a law degree from the Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis. She started her doctoral thesis (PhD) in 2016 on international mobility of children. Diodio strongly participates in the protection and promotion of fundamental rights as a lecturer of the Master Degree in Gender Equity and Human Rights at the University Kocc Barma of Saint Louis. In her everyday life, Diodio is a compassionate, empathetic, cheerful person, always listening to others and taking concrete action to empower others.
Diodio is passionate about travelling and discovering other realities and ways of life, as well as anything related to art . She loves challenges that force her to leave her comfort zone and push past limits. Diodio’s core principle in life is “no matter what happens in your life, you must always keep smiling and working towards your life goals”
