Leonard Kilekwang
Leonard Kilekwang was born and raised in Chepareria, and therefore has a direct connection to the culture, local leaders and resources that will be critical for Tecnosafi. Prior to college, he taught in Chepareria Mixed Secondary School for two years. In 2011, Leonard helped World Vision, Kenya to carry out research on water hygiene and […]
The Gifted Farmer
Lusekelo Nkuwi is the founder of The Gifted Farmer, a social venture he will launch in Tanzania to provide rural farmers with critical weather and crop price data, entrepreneurship training, and a business plan competition. Through the Gifted Farmer, Lusekelo will help farmers improve crop production, increase and diversify income, build wealth, and create new […]
Lusekelo Nkuwi
Lusekelo Nkuwi is a senior at Kentucky State University. He is passionate about Agriculture, youth empowerment and public health. At African Leadership Academy, he co-directed Grow Green Itsuseng, a community garden that produced healthy food for the poor communities in the outskirts of Johannesburg. This past summer, Lusekelo interned with Harvard School of Public Health […]
Komaale Initiative
Gervase founded The Komaale Initiative to provide a year-round farming opportunity for vegetable farmers along water-ways in the Wa Municipality of North West Ghana, where the crop-friendly rainy season lasts only four months. Komaale will provide subsistence vegetable farmers with streams of income throughout the year, and create employment opportunities for youth through rice farming. […]
Gervase Adams
Gervase Adams is a student of Ashesi University College class of 2017, studying BSc in Business Administration. Gervase is passionate about youth empowerment and agriculture. He is from the upper west region of Ghana where his people mostly rely on subsistence rain fed agriculture. He is currently working on the Komaale initiative in his region […]
Charlene Kormondy
Charlene received a B.S. in Environmental Studies, Summa Cum Laude, from the University of Central Florida in 2014. While at UCF, she conducted undergraduate research on climate change impacts on the Caribbean. As a participant in the President’s Scholars Study Abroad Program, Charlene constructed a shade house on the island of St. Kitts in which […]
Lucien Charland
Lucien grew up spending his summers in Guatemala, experiencing the negative effects of poverty and climate change first-hand. At the University of Central Florida, this exposure led him to study abroad in St. Kitts & Nevis and present and publish climate change impacts research. Also as a student, Lucien interned at the U.S. Embassy in […]
Standard Hydro
Lucien Charland, Charlene Kormondy, and their venture, Standard Hydro, construct and operate hydroponic shade houses in St. Kitts & Nevis to increase the resilience of the communities to climate-based threats to their food source and offer employment and training opportunities. Recently, the venture reported it is servicing approximately 450 weekly customers in the farmers’ market […]
Ubuntu Design Group
In 2015, Wandile founded the Ubuntu Design Group to provide sustainable improvements in the living and community conditions of shantytown residents in Durban. Using local materials and labor as well as community sweat equity, Wandile and his team are building half-houses that leave room for further creative construction. The half-house will create a sense of […]
Wandile Mthiyane
Wandile’s academic achievement earned him a full tuition scholarship to pursue Architecture at Andrews University, where he currently serves as the President of AIAS at the Andrews School of Architecture. Realizing that Architecture is one way to partner with communities in creating a better reality, Wandile co-founded Ubuntu Design Group, an initiative that allowed him […]
