Laetitia Mukungu
Laetitia Mukungu is from Kenya and is currently a MasterCard Foundation Scholar at EARTH University in Costa Rica where she studies agricultural engineering. She has a passion for agriculture and entrepreneurship and her work has been profiled in many publications, including Fast Company. Laetitia is also a 2012 Anzisha Prize Fellow, a 2014 Spark Kenya […]
Jacquiline Maina
Jacquiline Maina is an undergraduate student at EARTH, Costa Rica where she is currently pursuing an undergraduate degree in Agricultural Sciences. Her interests lie principally in food security, nutrition, psychology and environmental studies .Jacquiline worked briefly as a relationship officer for Equity Bank Kenya where she developed an interest for microfinance and entrepreneurship. She was […]
Nutri You Farm & Shop LTD (Nutri You)
Issues of food security have wide-reaching implications for people and the environment, particularly in low and middle-income countries. Nutri You is increasing smallholder farmers’ access to high-quality inputs through asset-based financing and agriculture training services to reduce hunger and poverty.
Shadadi Mutoni
Shadadi Mutoni is from Rwanda and is currently a MasterCard Foundation Scholar at EARTH University in Costa Rica where she studies Agricultural Sciences. She is passionate about urban agriculture and her vision is to see a world where everyone can produce their own healthy food regardless of their residential location.
Susan Hilda Lokolimoe
Susan studies Social work and Social administration at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. She co-founded Girls Alive Uganda with classmates Suzan Mutoni and Marion Apio to address the lack of sanitary materials for vulnerable girls in Tororo District, Uganda.
Suzan Mutoni
Suzan is an undergraduate student of Environmental Health Sciences at Makerere University School of Public Health. She is the Project coordinator of the Girls Alive Project, an initiative that breaks the major barrier to girl child education through making reusable sanitary towels and teaching menstrual hygiene. She is also the head of the Public Health […]
Girls Alive Uganda
Girls Alive Uganda aims to address the lack of sanitary materials for vulnerable girls in Tororo District, Uganda. The project will produce and distribute affordable sanitary pads to reduce high rates of menstrual-related school absenteeism, which remains a key barrier to girls’ education in Uganda.
Marion Apio
Marion will be graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Communication at Makerere University. She has a passion for communication, girl-child empowerment, and social transformation among young women in her country. She is the C.E.O of Girls Alive Uganda, an initiative providing training in making reusable sanitary towels and support to girls in […]
Clean City Initiative
The Clean City Initiative is an innovative intervention that aims to redefine the plastic waste disposal system in the Ibadan metropolis by creating value and wealth from plastic waste and in so doing, empowering the people of Ibadan to create a better future for themselves and for the environment.
Oluwafolajimi Adesanya
Folajimi Adesanya is a Medical Doctor in training and a Policy Enthusiast who believes in the potential of young Nigerians like himself in being catalysts of positive transformation in the African society. He has over three years of experience in Mentorship, Capacity Building, Libertarian Movement and as a Social Entrepreneur. He is the Founder/Chief Administrator […]
