Zongo Innovation Lab for Girls
Joseph Opoku is the co-founder of Zongo Innovation Lab for Girls, a social venture in the Nima slum of Accra, Ghana to introduce human-centered design and entrepreneurship skills in a single-sex environment that will help girls and young women build their economic capacity. He and his co-founders (three of whom are women) had been running […]
Joseph Opoku
Joseph has a wide range of experience advancing youth development in Ghana. He worked with the West Africa Civil Society Institute, Opportunity International, Children and Youth in Broadcasting and Springboard Roadshow Foundation, and many others. Joseph is passionate about education and youth development, particularly working to fill gaps within education. He founded the Youth Impact […]
Mwangala Simataa
Mwangala Simataa, a Zambian citizen, is currently a junior at Lafayette College majoring in Economics and Philosophy. Throughout his time at Lafayette College, he has served as a researcher for the Economic Empowerment and Global Learning Project, which is an interdisciplinary team of students and professors that works with distressed communities to find ways to develop and commercialize latent […]
Afritrove Milling
In 2017, Munyaradzi Chifetete & Mwangala Simataa co-founded Afritrove Milling in Zambia to provide a local solution for mealie meal production. Mealie meal is a staple made of maize for which a national monopoly exists—it has pushed down prices for farmers and artificially inflated prices for consumers. The team is using a local approach to source […]
Munyaradzi Chifetete
Munyaradzi is an undergraduate student at Lafayette College from Zimbabwe pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. He is an active member of the Lafayette chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and ASCE Steel Bridge team. Munyaradzi has interned at United Parcel Service (UPS), in the Industrial Engineering division, and at […]
Avishek Sanjel Chhetri
Born and raised in Kathmandu, Nepal, Avishek has grown to realize the health disparity that exists globally in terms of quality healthcare services. Avishek is driven by his passion to bring change to the healthcare sector of Nepal. Avishek is currently an undergraduate student at the University of Rochester studying Biochemistry and International Relations. He […]
Team Gyan
Suman Kumar & Avishek Chetri are co-founding Team Gyan in Nuwakot, Nepal to rebuild schools destroyed by the 2015 earthquake in Nepal. Students from the first school they will rebuild have been taught under temporary shelters; they will use a ‘Portal Shelter’ modular design that will allow for rapid deployment, use of local materials, safer […]
Suman Kumar
Suman Kumar began working as a machinist and welder at an early age. After the Nepal earthquake, he collaborated with non-profits on disaster response and prevention projects that involved designing and manufacturing machines, building 5,365 shelters for over 26,000 earthquake victims. He founded a social venture to rebuild schools destroyed by the earthquake using earthquake-resistant […]
Mina Pokuaa Agyemang
Mina Pokuaa Agyemang is co-founder of Agenda Project. She is a sophomore at the University of Ghana, Legon, majoring in Political Science and English. Reading, writing, advocating and debating are among her hobbies; she also has the passion to lead and to effect positive societal changes. Mina takes every opportunity to partake in and support […]
Joyce Danso
Joyce Okyerewaaa Danso, is the founder of the Agenda project and a social entrepreneur who has embarked on several projects to support young children in her community since June 2013. She is a final year student at the university of Ghana, Majoring in psychology. Joyce has won many laurels in debating and In Ghana, She […]
