Duplicate Sambani
Duplicate Sambani is a student at EARTH University in Costa Rica studying Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources Management. She is from the rural district of Buhera Zimbabwe. Duplicate is a MasterCard Foundation scholar, a leader who has been a MasterCard student representative, Millennium 2019 fellow, SDSN Youth coordinator as well as a holder of the […]
Organomineral Fertilizer
The goal of Organomineral Fertilizer is to increase the production of crops through the use of smart fertilizers by combining organic and inorganic matter, giving more importance to the smart fertilizer to ensure an increase in food production to end hunger and poverty, as well as creating jobs through production.
Devankar Mukhi
Devankar Mukhi is the founder of Green New Detroit, a green educational startup that promotes being green on a budget by educating the high school age youth on utilizing DIY methods in reducing one’s carbon footprint, becoming more cost-effective, energy-efficient, and understanding how to acquire and analyze data to develop sustainable solutions such as green […]
Green New Detroit
Green New Detroit aims to provide education and tailored sustainability kits to make it easier for households in under-resourced communities in Detroit, Michigan to adopt sustainability practices. Devankar will be working with local students to map out the needs in each community, and then work with local partners and corporations to create sustainability kits that […]
Antara
Antara will curate visual-kinesthetic learning kits to enhance the learning experience for students in Mumbai, India. The kits will be distributed for free to low-income communities and sold at a market-competitive price for communities with the means to purchase the kits.
Ishan Bahalkar
Ishan is currently pursuing an undergraduate course in Mechatronics Engineering from NMIMS University along with studying for an Honors in Automation. Settled in India, he has aspirations to travel the globe with an interest to connect with and empower people, desiring to make a change on a global scale. He is a persistently inquisitive and […]
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.
