{"id":70155,"date":"2025-05-28T15:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T14:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/?page_id=70155"},"modified":"2025-05-28T16:01:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T15:01:55","slug":"tola-andu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/media\/meet-our-incredible-ambassadors\/tola-andu\/","title":{"rendered":"Sense Ambassador: Tola Andu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"526\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Tola-Andu.jpeg\" alt=\"A smartly dressed woman wearing a blue jacket.\" class=\"wp-image-70142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Tola-Andu.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Tola-Andu-600x493.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Tola-Andu-500x411.jpeg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\t<div class=\"wp-block-hs-group    margin-bottom-4xl\">\t\t<div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n<p>Tola Andu is an award-winning speaker, social entrepreneur and dedicated advocate for autism awareness and support. She is passionate about promoting positive early childhood experiences, positive parenting and inclusion of disabled people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tola uses her lived experiences raising her son to promote autism awareness and acceptance on her social media platform, @raisingkevin_, which has a following of over a million people.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through her organisations Tola Andu Foundation (TAF Cares) and The Sistahood Co, she provides valuable resources such as free therapy, educational resources and community support to families raising children with special needs. Her efforts earned her an Inspirational Woman of the Year Award in 2024 and Humanitarian Services Award from the Nigerian Association of Special Education Teachers (2023).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/media\/meet-our-incredible-celebrity-ambassadors\/\">Our celebrity ambassadors.<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"parent":70141,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"content_label":[],"class_list":["post-70155","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70155\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"content_label","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content_label?post=70155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}