As founder and CEO of the Female Advocacy, Mentoring, and Empowerment (FAME) Foundation, Aderonke Bello focuses on uniting Nigerian women and girls through sports participation and works to provide them access to quality education. 

For example, for International Women’s Day in 2019, FAME hosted a football match that included more than 3,000 community members who watched the game, participated in free health and sex education classes, and received tests for sexually-transmitted infections. Proceeds from the event provided full scholarships for eight rural girls in her programs. She has an ongoing project in Nigeria called #LetGirlsPlay, an initiative that uses sport to address and advocate for issues bordering on women and girls development.

For her work with FAME, Aderonke won the African Girl-Child Advocate award and the Girl-Child Education Champion award from the former President of Malawi, Joyce Banda. However, Aderonke knows more work is needed to break long-standing traditions that leave women behind and to address the severe levels of gender inequality present in her country.