Grace Aguti
Grace Aguti (Uganda) is a MasterCard Foundation Graduate Scholar at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon pursuing a master’s degree in Plant Science. She co-founded Pura Vida, a project focusing on food security by developing an innovative Bamboo Green and dry system ensuring that food is grown during the dry season and dried in […]
Mahmoud Kanso
Mahmoud Kanso is a Syrian Civil and Environmental Engineering student living in Lebanon. He got a full scholarship from Mastercard Foundation to study at the American University of Beirut. Mahmoud looks forward to using his leadership and project management skills in reserving Syrian cities identity in postwar projects. Mahmoud believes in entrepreneurship, leadership, volunteerism for […]
Nour Al-Bidewe
Nour Al-Bidewe is a computer science student at the American University of Beirut. Nour is Syrian and she has been living in Lebanon since 2012.She got a full merit scholarship from Mastercard foundation. Nour envisions using technology and coding in building youth active personalities. She looks forward for empowering women’s personalities and equipping them with […]
Eslam Abo Alhawa
Eslam Abo Alhawa is a Syrian Mastercard Foundation Scholar studying Computer Science at the American University of Beirut (AUB). She has extensive experience in working with NGOs, organizations, and community projects. She believes in the importance of volunteerism in giving back and changing her community. She is skilled in communication, adaptation, and critical thinking. She […]
Yamikani Ng’ona
Yamikani is poised with curbing prevailing levels of poverty and hardship in her community and the world at large. She is a team leader award winner from International Citizen Service (ICS), a UK based organization focused on community development through recruiting the youth to participate in activities to enforce education, girls empowerment, and environmental conversation. […]
Jireh Mwamukonda
Jireh Mwamukonda was raised up in the city of Blantyre and Lilongwe in Malawi. She joined YoungLife in 2009 and Malawi Girl Guides in 2014. Through the roles she had in both organizations, she realized the potential that people have and became more passionate about community development. In 2016, she co-founded the “Together We Can” […]
Emerson Salguero
Emerson Salguero is Bachelor’s Degree in International Relations with specialization in Public Policy at Francisco Marroquin University of Guatemala. He is a political leader in citizen participation in Guatemala and Founder and Executive Director of Involúcrate, an organization dedicated to fostering citizen participation and encouraging youth engagement in politics. He has more than 4 years […]
Brendan Wang
Brendan is on a mission to help people live happier, healthier, lives to sustain a cleaner, greener planet. He first invented the Boka Bands while in high school, helping people achieve their goals by wearing them on their wrist. While studying supply chain management at Michigan State University, he then invented the CAPNOS® Zero because […]
Jake Roach
Jake is an undergraduate student at the Michigan State University-Eli Broad School of Business. He plans to graduate in 2021 and is majoring in Marketing with a minor in Real estate investment Management. In high school, Jake owned and operated a car detailing company and managed 2 e-commerce dropshipping stores. In college, he wanted to […]
Edith Naisubi
Edith Violet Naisubi is earning a Bachelors’s degree in Business Administration at Ashesi University in Ghana as a Mastercard Foundation scholar. She was selected as a 2019 Emerging leader by Skoll Foundation. Edith is a founder of the Ashesi Wiki Club: a club that aims at promoting African content online by creating articles and […]
