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 […]
API-SMART
Api-Smart aims to create employment and reduce poverty in Bebuso, Ghana by training young people in bee-keeping and honey production. Api-Smart will also provide a market for harvested honey and encourage afforestation in the process.
Narinda Shirah
Narinda Shirah is a MasterCard scholar, waiting for graduation in January 2019, with a bachelor’s degree in commerce. During the four years of her program, shes had opportunities to work with two organizations as an intern (ministry of local government and the Planning and Development Department at Makerere) in pursuit of her career and passion […]
Rabbits For Education
This project addresses the problem of primary school drop-out rates in a government-aided school in Kamwenge District, Uganda. The project will provide participants with rabbits and will equip them with the skills they need to raise and care for them. The initiative also will help participants find a market, so they can generate income to […]
ALI Leadership Institute
The venture aims to create a local urban-based leadership institute to provide young low-income students the ability to develop leadership skills over the course of 10 weeks. This institute will work to address a lack of leadership opportunities for urban youth but also get them involved in the civic engagement process.
