Karina Nur Arumsari
Wetland Furniture was founded by Karina Nur Arumsari and her partner, Irfanda. The venture is about converting water hyacinth (Eichornia crassipes) – an invasive plant that lives in water – into valued goods. They are empowering the women in Desa Bandung, Mojokerto to have a better life. In her spare time, she enjoys going to cinemas […]
Wetland Furniture
Irfanda Odytia & Karina Nur Arumsari founded Wetland Furniture, also in Indonesia, to harvest water hyacinths and empower unemployed women to learn how to build furniture from this freely available resource. The team will provide the women with resources, training, and designs, as well as a generous profit-sharing structure. Wetland Furniture also has a distribution […]
Irfanda Odytia
Irfanda Odytia was born at Ponorogo, Indonesia on 01 May 1997. Irfanda had a very early interest in technology and entrepreneurship. He pursues his passion by studying as a science major at Sampoerna Academy Palembang, Indonesia. Irfanda began to love and appreciate nature and the environment, community and society. During his senior year of high […]
Nahom Wodajo
Nahom Zeleke is a graduate from Addis Ababa University, with a Bachelor’s Degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is co-founder of Addis Sustainable Life (ASL) – a recycling start-up company and campus-sustainability program. His project engages volunteers in creative campus waste management, markets biodegradable products and executes various campus sustainability campaigns for Addis Ababa University. Nahom […]
Abiy Goshu
Abiy is co-founder of Addis Sustainable Life – a social venture that works on campus sustainability and markets biodegradable paper products to support small local green enterprises in Addis Abeba. He also serves as Partnerships Director at the Youth Negotiation on Climate Change Convention (YNCCC). He was nominated as a youth delegate representing his country […]
Addis Sustainable Life
In 2015, Nahom and Abbiy founded Addis Sustainable Life (ASL), a campus-sustainability program and small recycling start-up that marketed biodegradable products, engaged volunteers in creative campus waste management, and executed campus sustainability campaigns for Addis Ababa University. ASL blended Ethiopian traditional skills with contemporary designs to produce aesthetic paper products available for international and online markets and also generated direct impact through a light […]
Charlene Kormondy
Charlene received a B.S. in Environmental Studies, Summa Cum Laude, from the University of Central Florida in 2014. While at UCF, she conducted undergraduate research on climate change impacts on the Caribbean. As a participant in the President’s Scholars Study Abroad Program, Charlene constructed a shade house on the island of St. Kitts in which […]
Lucien Charland
Lucien co-founded Aedify to reimagine game-based learning, starting with personal finance. He is also Director of Strategy and Operations at Kraken Digital Asset Exchange, where he’s been responsible for the commercial launch of the platform in several European countries. He previously founded a Resolution Project-backed sustainable agriculture company, ran the operations team for an energy […]
Standard Hydro
Lucien Charland, Charlene Kormondy, and their venture, Standard Hydro, construct and operate hydroponic shade houses in St. Kitts & Nevis to increase the resilience of the communities to climate-based threats to their food source and offer employment and training opportunities. Recently, the venture reported it is servicing approximately 450 weekly customers in the farmers’ market […]
Explore A New Language Project
Rejoice Dufe is launching the Explore a New Language Project. Explore a New Language Project is introducing a mobile language lab and a language center to provide English, French, and Spanish language training to orphans in Accra, Ghana so that they can build confidence and skills, and improve their prospects for higher education and employment.
