Top Farm
Top Farm will provide a demo farm agribusiness for training young people with limited employment opportunities in poultry farming and horticulture. The venture aims to allow students to create their own farming business, train those who have dropped out of school, lower the cost of animal production, and promote entrepreneurship.
Cocoa For Life
Cocoa for Life will be running a multifaceted program that will (1) train and employ women and young people to extract potash from cocoa husks to sell to local soft soap producers, and (2) provide financial management and skills training to farmers so that they can make soaps and supplement their income in the off-season.
Prince Agyei
Prince Baffour Agyei is the founder and CEO of MorePlex Company Limited and the project lead for the cocoa For life project with three years of experience working and developing a startup alongside his engineering studies at KNUS-Ghana. Prince specializes in local technology and process and development using local raw materials and is responsible for […]
Diana Wairimu
Diana Wairimu Njuguna is a Mastercard scholar in her third year, pursuing a Licentiate degree in Agricultural Science at EARTH University. She is on the dean’s Honor list for academic achievement and a chemistry tutor under Professor Cristiano. She is also working on a soil science project which is about evaluating organo-mineral fertilizers pellets. As […]
Vermi-Farm Initiative LTD
The Vermi-Farm Initiative is pioneering climate-resilient incomes for smallholder farmers, especially women and youth, in rural Sub-Saharan Africa by promoting vermicomposting awareness through training and workshops. Leveraging Vermi-Farm DigiShamba, a low-cost smart greenhouse, it empowers farmers with unprecedented control over crop production, ensuring resilience against unpredictable weather patterns. Additionally, through the Vermi-Farm Adapt Finance Program […]
Royford Mutegi
Royford Mutegi is a student at the Multimedia University of Kenya, pursuing BSc. Applied Physics and Computer Science. He is Co-Founder and Executive Director for Vermi-Farm Initiative LTD, which promotes an integrated waste management system by raising awareness around vermicomposting through workshops to farmers and providing additional job opportunities. Royford is a passionate mentor to […]
Guérté Réwmi Company
Gérté Réwmi seeks to create jobs in Dakar, Senegal by assisting farmers in refining raw peanuts to create products such as peanut butter, which will increase employment, raise incomes, and better utilize Senegalese natural resources. They will also adhere to environmentally sustainable practices in turning their peanut waste into animal food.
Fatou Kine Sambe
Fatou Kine is a Senegalese girl majoring in Applied Mathematics with a minor in Human Rights and Transnational Justice at the American University of Beirut. She is an alumnus of the African Leadership Academy where she earned a diploma in Entrepreneurial Leadership. With the skills acquired, she created her first Startup Guerte Rewmi that aims […]
Zari3Tech
Zari3TECH aims to address the waste crisis impacting Lebanon by encouraging home farming and in-home organic waste collection through community education programs and providing access to waste management resources—most notably community compost bins.
Batoul Noureddine
Batoul Noureddine is a young activist and an aspiring social entrepreneur from Lebanon, Middle East. She graduated from the American University of Beirut in 2021 with a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering and a Minor in Economics, where she was on a full-ride scholarship from the MasterCard Foundation. She’s passionate about community development, social and economic […]
