A Girl’s Dream
Brianna, Ivett, and Miryim are starting an afterschool and weekend program in the Detroit and Dearborn area of Michigan aimed at getting young women of color interested in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) fields.
Prudence Akoth Hainga
Prudence is a student at The University of Edinburgh in Scotland pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in political science. She is an outspoken individual, aspiring to be a diplomat and shift narratives that hinder women from taking up leadership roles in her hyper-patriarchal country, Kenya. As a Mastercard Foundation Scholar, she believes that collective input from […]
Martine Irakoze
Martine Irakoze is a Burundian student at the University of Edinburgh in International Relations & International Law. She is a serial entrepreneur, passionate about African youth empowerment. One of her favorite activities in Burundi is to walk around the streets of the slums, where it is common to see young people sitting inactive and unemployed. […]
Grace Kiruja
Grace is a twenty-one-year-old female, a Kenyan by birth. She attends The University of Edinburgh in Scotland, UK, where she is pursuing a bachelor’s in Global Agriculture and Food Security. She went to school mainly in Kenya before getting the chance to go to The United Kingdom. Grace has a lot of passion for matters […]
Linda
Linda seeks to promote sexual-health education and sexual assault awareness in primary and secondary school students in Kenya through a subscription-based text message service. By providing sexual education to teenage girls via text message, Linda will ensure the sensitive nature of its content will remain private and it can therefore break down taboos around the […]
Tunde Oyebamiji
Tunde Oyebamiji is a Medical Doctor in training at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He is passionate about maternal and child health advocacy, on a mission to tackle maternal and child health injustice in Nigeria- helping mothers and giving every child a fighting chance. He is the co-founder of Project-Lend an Arm, a social venture […]
Project – Lend An Arm
Tunde Oyebamiji is launching Lend an Arm in Ibadan, Nigeria to build a vibrant community of highly motivated voluntary blood donors and form a sustainable supply chain. These donors, known as ‘heroes,’ will double as educators, debunking misconceptions surrounding voluntary blood donation in Ibadan.
Mahamudul Hassan Tonmoy
Tonmoy is a tech enthusiast currently studying Computer Science and engineering at Independent University, Bangladesh. In addition, he is working on a tech-based start-up project called ‘Cure’. Cure is a healthcare start-up based in Bangladesh, which will connect the patient with doctors, pharmacies, and diagnostic centres. They believe Through Curethey can make a radical change […]
Cure
Cure is a telemedicine app in Bangladesh that will greatly increase access to doctors, particularly for women and people in rural areas.
DeepEye Initiative
DeepEye Initiative aims to reduce the impact of preventable illnesses in Harare, Zimbabwe by developing a low-cost, biomedical device that can improve the accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity in the diagnosis of pneumonia. It uses sound waves to detect the presence of fluid in the lungs of a child with pneumonia.
