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 […]
The Agenda Project
Joyce and Mina are from Ghana, where Mina grew up an orphan. They set out to ensure that orphans, who fare very poorly in Ghana’s school system, get better services. They will bring together mental health services, social workers, tuition assistance and other services into a holistic package for middle school and high school orphans […]
Knit2Lead
Despina Souroviki founded Knit2Lead to empower socially-excluded women in Greece through fashion design and manufacturing apparel. She is working with women’s prisons, domestic violence victims, and rehab facilities in Thessaloniki to provide these women with the skills to create clothes, along with leadership training and the platform to sell their designs for economically empowering income.
Despina Souroviki
Despina is an undergraduate law student at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She is a fluent speaker of Greek, English, Spanish, German and Arabic. She was the Vice President of Seminars and Conferences of ELSA Thessaloniki for two consecutive terms, while being the instigator of the 1st Winter Law School on Migration Law & Refugee […]
FlairNow
Claudia Saavedra is launching Flair Now in Newark, NJ to make college access feasible and relatable through the use of a mobile and web app that provides personalized mentoring to increase college access one click at a time.
Claudia Saavedra
Claudia and her family moved from Chile to the United States in hopes for a better life to achieve the American Dream. Her strong work ethic led her to graduate at the top of her high school class, which qualified her for the NJ Stars scholarship and provided her the opportunity to attend community college […]
Talent Match, Inc.
This is a social venture working to bridge the gap between knowledge acquired in schools and solving real world problems. We do this by helping young adults from different college campus and recent graduates in Rwanda get internships and jobs. We screen, recruit, train, and connect students with employers.
