Ayuk Peterkings Ayuk

Founder & Director - Help the Less Privileged Foundation

Ayuk Peterkings Ayuk is a Cameroonian refugee living in the Adagom refugee settlement in Nigeria. He holds a Master’s Degree in Accounting and is currently studying Strategic Management at Luiss University in Italy. Ayuk has also pursued Refugee and Forced Migration Studies at Oxford University through the RSC pathways, and has completed various training programs, including leadership, advocacy, public speaking organized by UNHCR, and the R-SEAT Geneva Advocacy Training Program for Refugees. Additionally, he has studied public administration. He is the Senate president (Refugee leader) of Adagom Refugee Settlement with 41 communities. 

As the Founder and Director of Help the Less Privileged Foundation, a refugee-led organization, Ayuk is dedicated to advocating for and providing solutions in education and livelihood for refugees and has so far trained 375 Refugee women and Girls in different skills and given starter kits to 25 of them to start-up their own businesses. He is a member of the International Association for Study of Forced Migration (IASFM) research cluster and has served as the theme and content co-lead for the Migration Summit 2023. Ayuk is also part of the organizing committee for the 2024 migration summit and the lead trainer for SOREX-NIGERIA as a social entrepreneurship facilitator. 

Ayuk has been instrumental in advocating for tertiary education access for Cameroonian refugees, he advocated for tertiary education for Refugees in Nigeria by organizing an advocacy meeting with the country representative of UNHCR Nigeria in 2019. He has spoken at international forums such as the RewirED Summit at Expo 2020 in Dubai and the World Higher Education Conference in Barcelona, discussing education pathways for refugees. Ayuk is passionate about creating lasting solutions for education in emergencies and improving the lives and livelihoods of refugees.