Yang-Ward Foundation
Yang-Ward Foundation seeks to empower single women in rural areas by engaging them in revenue generating activities such as cash crop production, pig farming, goat farming etc to gain financial independence. Yang-Ward Foundation launched its pilot program in Kot, eastern Nepal in July, 2013 to great success. Within a year, it became self-sustainable employing 4 […]
Samantha Wang
Samantha (Yu) Wang is currently an electrical engineering major with an entrepreneurship and management minor at Johns Hopkins University. Although she is an electrical engineering major, she is also interested in the area of medicine and specifically applying engineering concepts to medicine. Aside from her studies, most of her time is dedicated towards cardiology stem […]
Miguel Dias
Miguel Dias is currently pursuing a bachelors degree in Applied Mathematics and Statistics and in Biomedical Engineering with a focus on Computational Biology at Johns Hopkins University (2017). He is on the Student Advocacy Board which manages the 50+ student service groups on campus and that organizes school wide events. He is a also tutor […]
Yangmali Sahadev Rai
An award-winning social entrepreneur, Yangmali Rai is the Founder and President of the Yang-Ward Foundation, an initiative that seeks to empower single women of rural areas by engaging them in revenue-generating activities to gain financial independence. He completed his schooling at the National School of Nepal; Budhanilkantha school. He then went to the United World […]
Yadel Okorie
Yadel is a sophomore mechanical engineering major at the Johns Hopkins University. Growing up in Nigeria, Yadel became aware of the various problems and issues that people in developing countries face and hopes to continue to work to solve these problems by developing his skills and using them to empower others.
William Hartono
William Hartono is currently a Chemical Engineering student in Institut Teknologi Bandung. He received the Djarum Foundation scholarship, one of the most reputable scholarship program in Indonesia. In addition to engineering, he is passionate about business and microfinance systems. William is one of the founders of biogas project, held by HIMATEK (Chemical Engineering Student Association), […]
Love Odetola
Born in Nigeria, Love moved to Senegal with her missionary parents at the age of eight. In rural Senegal, she was exposed to health and socio-economic disparities. She, therefore, decided to devote her life to bridge the disparities. In pursuit of this, she is at St. Olaf College now working towards a bachelor degree in Public […]
Community Led Total Sanitation
Following the worst drought in 60 years that hit Somalia in 2011 with the massive displacement of men, women and children, Hussein launched the Community Total Sanitation (CLTS) venture in one of the internally displaced persons (IDP) settlements in Garowe in February 2013.His venture recruited and trained 60 community-based hygiene promoters on Participatory Hygiene and […]
Hussein Hassan
Hussein Hassan is a Public Health Professional with ten years humanitarian and development experience in the Horn of Africa and Middle East. Between 2010 and 2013, Hussein was working in Northern Somalia and developed and then implemented result-driven community development and public health project that had positive impact on the needy communities in Puntland and […]
Marling Garcia
Marling Garcia is a passionate, dedicated, and enthusiastic student from Northcentral Technical College in Wausau, WI. She was born in the community of Las Macias, Teustepe, Boaco, Nicaragua. Since she was a child, she experienced the lack of clean, potable water needed to supply the basic needs in her home. Due to that hardship, she always wanted to […]
