Dr. Ijarotimi (MBBS, MSc, MPH, FWACP), is the Founder and Director of Singularly Me Mothers Support Initiative (SiMMSI). She currently works with the NHS in England. She heads a board of highly skilled directors that work together to achieve the vision of SiMMSI.
Her passion is gender equality through advocacy & girl child education, and proffering lasting solutions to issues affecting single mothers and gender based violence. She attended Saint Peters primary School Akure , FGGC Odogbolu and secondary education at Unity Secondary school Ado Ekiti before moving on to UI to study medicine for her first degree. After her first degree, she specialised in community medicine at UCH Ibadan. She holds M.Scs.’ in Clinical epidemiology and Field Epidemiology from UI with affiliation to US CDC. She has certificates in relationship counselling, international field epidemiology and management. She left Nigeria late 2018 to start GP training in the UK. She has published many academic manuscripts in international journals.
She discovered her passion to help people while she was in secondary school. She would dream of how she could help young women who where victims of domestic violence or whom through domestic abuse had become single mothers, make something out of their lives. She had also often heard stories of young girls being forced into child marriages and many more disowned and their lives being destroyed because they got pregnant out of wedlock.
Many years later out of an abusive marriage, she started a Facebook group for single mothers who were or had been victims of violence, aiming to share her experience over the years and also create an online support group. And when different people started sharing those challenges, she realized that just psychosocial support was not enough. She realized that what had helped her to leave an abusive marriage was financial empowerment and the right mindset that prevented her from subjecting herself to societal expectations over what she knew was best for her.