Yamikani Ng’ona
Yamikani is poised with curbing prevailing levels of poverty and hardship in her community and the world at large. She is a team leader award winner from International Citizen Service (ICS), a UK based organization focused on community development through recruiting the youth to participate in activities to enforce education, girls empowerment, and environmental conversation. […]
Jireh Mwamukonda
Jireh Mwamukonda was raised up in the city of Blantyre and Lilongwe in Malawi. She joined YoungLife in 2009 and Malawi Girl Guides in 2014. Through the roles she had in both organizations, she realized the potential that people have and became more passionate about community development. In 2016, she co-founded the “Together We Can” […]
MUSHECO Farm
MUSHECO Farm is training unemployed youth and women to cultivate high-quality oyster mushrooms at a low cost. MUSHECO Farm will utilize corn stover biomass, which is abundant and otherwise disposed of following maize harvests in Mzuzu, as fertilizer to ensure that the cultivation is sustainable and accessible to community members.
Edith Naisubi
Edith Violet Naisubi is earning a Bachelors’s degree in Business Administration at Ashesi University in Ghana as a Mastercard Foundation scholar. She was selected as a 2019 Emerging leader by Skoll Foundation. Edith is a founder of the Ashesi Wiki Club: a club that aims at promoting African content online by creating articles and […]
Amanuel Eshete
Amanuel Eshete is an Ethiopian studying Business Administration at Ashesi University, Ghana as a MasterCard Foundation scholar. Amanuel is a co-founder of AgriSan, a venture that aims at empowering the women at Pallisa district of eastern Uganda through boosting agriculture and providing training on financial and family planning to improve their livelihoods. Currently, Amanuel is […]
AgriSan
AgriSan aims to establish a community market garden for underprivileged rural women in the Pallisa District of Uganda. The women will grow vegetables as a source of income and use leftover vegetables to make manure. In addition, the venture will teach the women savings strategies and other financial management skills to ensure their economic security.
Shape of Water
Shape of Water seeks to alleviate the water crisis in Karachi, Pakistan by utilizing Ground Penetrating Radar and their Artificial Intelligence Algorithm to map and identify the weaknesses of water infrastructure systems in the city. Once maps are developed, other technologies such as water meters and sensors can be deployed to monitor the distribution and […]
Areej Al Medinah
Areej is a senior Electrical Engineering student at Habib University, Pakistan’s first liberal arts university. Her interest includes identifying social and civic problems through design research, designing resource sustainable interventions through technology and creative innovation. In 2017, she co-founded ConnectHear, a social startup promoting deaf inclusion in Pakistan. Currently, she is working to improve water […]
Ransford Aniagyei
Ransford Obeng Aniagyei is a recent graduate of the MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana and where he obtained a first-class degree in Petroleum Engineering. He is a young individual with a strong passion for solving problems and helping others around him. For the past five […]
Elikplim Avor
Elikplim Kwasi Avor is a MasterCard Foundation Scholar and a recent graduate of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana. He pursued a Bachelor of Science in Agribusiness Management (First Class Honors)and has plans of furthering his education in Finance. He is the founder of Further Education (FeDU), an educational project that builds […]
