'It’s money lying in the streets': Meet the woman transforming recycling in Lagos

Resilient People: Wecyclers began life as a student project - but Bilikiss Adebiyi-Abiola has since built it into a social enterprise that tackles the Nigerian capital's waste crisis and empowers low-income communities to turn trash into cash

As the most populous city in Africa, life in Lagos can present a number of urban challenges. Since 2004, Nigeria has seen a 5% increase in the number of people living below $1 per day, despite recently overtaking South Africa as the continent's largest economy.

Of Lagos's 18 million residents, 60% live in slum neighbourhoods that operate as informal, thriving cities of their own. But Bilikiss Adebiyi-Abiola, a born-and-raised Lagosian, has a plan to reconnect citizens to the megacity by linking them to out-of-reach municipal services, while also building a network through which community resilience can flourish.