Hanifa Fuseini Mumuni
Hanifa Fuseini Mumuni is a Ghanaian and a final year student of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. She is a Mastercard Foundation scholar, studying Geography and rural development. She is the co-founder and marketing manager for RECATYREF (Recycling Car Tyre for Furniture). She finds interest in volunteering and social entrepreneurship. Her versatility […]
Barikisu Nasiru Zawi
Barikisu Nasiru Zawi, is a Mastercard Foundation Scholar who reads BSc. Geological Engineering at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. As someone who is very passionate about learning, she utilizes every opportunity available to her for the maximum benefit of all. She also thrives well in difficult environments. In addition, she is very […]
Francis Acaye Opio
Francis Acaye Opio comes from a township in the Northern part of Uganda. Currently, he is a student pursuing BSc. Petroleum Geoscience and Production at Makerere University under the Mastercard Foundation Scholarship. He is a young African who finds passion in engaging in activities that improve the lives of people around him. Francis is a […]
Sylvia Akurut
Sylvia Akurut is a second-year student at Makerere University pursuing a Bachelor of Industrial and Organizational Psychology with extensive passion and skills. As a young psychologist, she is passionate about being part of the solution in communities and not just benefiting from the actions of others, and being in social change is personally important since she […]
TAL Youth Uganda
TAL (Think About Life) Youth Uganda is an economic empowerment venture that is buying surplus sweet potatoes and turning them into delicious, nutritious donuts. They will create a production plant where they recruit, train, and employ unemployed women to make the donuts and then employ youth to sell them at local markets.
Ambrose Onapa
Onapa Ambrose, a young Telecommunications Engineering from Makerere University, is from Akokoro, Apac, Uganda. From passion for technology and community development, he co-founded TAL Youth Uganda and Cassavity, extending the shelf life of agricultural surplus from 3 days to 18 months using simple technology in Uganda and Sierra Leone respectively. With this technology, small holder […]
Wastezon
With a vision of creating a waste-free world, Wastezon is using its mobile application to trace, sort, and collect household organic waste in Kigali, Rwanda. This household organic waste will then be recycled into organic fertilizers, which will be distributed to smallholder farmers to improve their crop yields.
Ghislain Irakoze
Ghislain Irakoze is the Founder and CEO of Wastezon, a mobile app-based company, which connects households with recycling industries to transact solid wastes through reverse logistics. Passionate about Circular Economy transition, He thrived at organizing the “Recycle for Environment” Campaign which involved over 70 students in waste recycling in partnership with Tunza Eco-Generation Samsung Initiative. […]
Jimcale Faarah
Jimcale is 21-year-olds, fighting against plastic waste in his country of Somaliland. He was born and raised in Hargeisa, Somaliland. Two years ago, he noticed plastic waste had become a major problem in his country, and no one was doing anything to improve it. In 2019, Jimcale founded Plastic Venture – a recycling startup that […]
Plastic Venture
Through recycling, Plastic Venture aims to create a clean environment and address the waste crisis in Hargeisa, Somalia by turning plastic waste into affordable, sustainable paving blocks.
