Roger Kouagré Tcharo
Roger Kouagré Tcharo is a student of Animal Health and Production at the University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin. Aged 23, he comes from a peasant family. He studies at university through the Mastercard-Foundation Scholars Program. Roger is passionate about agriculture and animal husbandry. Courage, determination, autonomy, patience, a sense of responsibility, organization, ability to adapt, helping […]
Sènami Irène Bossavi
A young third-year undergraduate student at the University of Abomey Calavi, Irène comes from a middle-class family. From father Pascal Bossavi, soldier and mother Séraphine Agossou, Irène was born in Benin, precisely in southern Benin, where she spent all her childhood, grew up, and completed all her studies until now. She obtained her baccalaureate at […]
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 […]
Women Income Network (WIN)
Women Income Network (WIN) implements a project titled “promoting maggot farming as a tool to increase household income among women working in stone quarries and as an eco-friendly bio-waste management system. This component of the project aims to enhance the overall livelihoods of the target women and their households in Kalungu village, as well as […]
Namakula Alicia Mbalire
Namakula Alicia Mbalire is an alumnus of Makerere University, where she pursued a BSc in Biotechnology. She finds joy when involved in Humanitarian work. She is also passionate about topics on climate change mitigation, women empowerment, and food security. With the above in mind, she is a millennium fellow and a campus director of the […]
Janepher Matini
Matini Janepher pursued a B.A. in Economics from Makerere University. This was due to her passion to promote community economic developments in the rural areas of Uganda starting with her community in Mayuge where she first identified the need. To fulfill the above, she initiated a campaign “Nhiife initiative” with fellow peers against teenage pregnancy […]
Florence Namubiru
Florence Namubiru is a MasterCard Foundation scholar in her fourth year completing her Bachelors of Science in software engineering at Makerere University. She is the Co-Founder of Women Income Network (WIN) an organization aiming at empowering female household heads economically through maggot farming. She is currently the Inspector General of Governance at the college of […]
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 […]
