JP – Jumping Protein
Jumping Protein (JP) aims to reduce malnutrition in infants and toddlers in Morandera, Zimbabwe by creating a sustainable protein source through the farming of insects. JP will train community members on how to cultivate crickets, mealworms, and black soldier flies for both human consumption and animal feed.
Esnath Divasoni
Esnath Divasoni is a CAMFED and MasterCard Foundation Scholar. She is currently at EARTH University in Costa Rica pursuing a career in agricultural sciences. She is also a CAMA member, alumnae association for CAMFED graduates, a pan-African movement that works in breaking the cycle of poverty for good. As a student leader, she is the […]
Igem
Igem uses earthenware water pots to trap debris, viruses, and waterborne pathogens to provide clean drinking water to households without the addition of any substances or chemicals.
Judith Lurit-Michael Lawrence
Judith is committed to identifying her community’s most pressing issues and dedicating herself to the identification of unique and efficient solutions to problems that she stands for. Judith is always in the search for cost-effective ways of ensuring lasting solutions to challenges such as health care problems and peace advocacy problems in her country and […]
Emily Otoo-Quayson
Emily Otoo-Quayson is a skilled communications and digital marketing professional, as well as a creative content creator and designer. She is a proud alumna of the Scholars program at KNUST, the Young African Leaders Initiative, and a Resolution fellow. As a STEM researcher, Emily has worked on several impactful projects that utilize local resources. Notably, […]
Enaccess
Wyckliffe Madunda Aluga is the founder of Enaccess, a social venture that aims to address energy poverty and water scarcity in sub-Saharan Africa. Wyckliffe and his team will assemble, distribute, lease, and service portable solar power stations with integrated water pumps for low-income smallholder farmers who live on incomes of $2.50 or less per day. […]
Wyckliffe Madunda Aluga
Wyckliffe is a freshman majoring in Chemical Engineering at the University of California Berkeley. Born and raised in Kenya, and a recent graduate of African Leadership Academy in South Africa, Wyckliffe started his journey as an entrepreneur and innovator at a tender age of nine by selling snacks in school to carter for small needs […]
Paul Mukuye
Paul Mukuye is a Ugandan student in his senior year at EARTH University-Costa Rica pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Agronomic Engineering. He is a MasterCard scholar. Paul is a winner of Social Venture Challenge Resolution Project, Ghana-2016. He also participated in HULT PRIZE Regional Finals, Clinton Global initiatives in San Francisco-2016. Co-founder, Administrator and Coordinator UNEGA […]
Fatumah Birungi
Fatumah is a Ugandan student pursuing her degree in Agronomic Engineering at EARTH University, Costa Rica. While at Earth, she has worked as a treasurer and productions manager at Forest Paradise, a project company operated by 6 students from 6 different countries of American continent. She also works as a laboratory assistant of Natural Science […]
Unega Farm – Uganda
The founders of Unega Farm – Uganda, Alex Kyeyune, Fatumah Birungi, and Paul Mukuye, will work to reduce hunger and poverty in local communities in the Wakiso District of Uganda by teaching them sustainable micro-gardening techniques. The produce grown will improve families’ own nutritional intake, while allowing them to sell any excess to also improve […]
