Ebinehita Iyere, founder of charitable youth organisation Milk Honey Bees
Milk Honey Bees celebrates and empowers Black girls and young women by providing a safe space for creative expression and healing. Here, the organisation’s 28-year-old founder Ebinehita Iyere discusses her personal journey, the impact of violence on women and the importance of putting ‘HER’ first
LUX: What?s your earliest memory of wanting to be involved in youth work"

Ebinehita Iyere: Youth work has always been a significant part of my life. My earliest memory of wanting to be involved was at the latchkey after school club I attended in primary school, supported by some amazing youth workers. I naturally started applying those skills to other young people around me. Follow LUX on Instagram: luxthemagazine
As I got older I really realised the impact that those youth workers had on me. When I left home aged 15, I became a youth worker without even knowing it, providing peer support to other young people like me. I was living in a hostel, so I created a youth work space in my small hostel room and everyone would come to my place. The community always had an impact on me and how I viewed society because people didn?t understand us, but the community did, the youth workers in the community understood us.
LUX: What inspired you to set up Milk Honey Bees"

Ebinehita Iyere: The work I was doing centred around young men. I was raised to believe that most issues in the comm...