Girl Child Project
Ousmane Ba is launching the Girl Child Project in Conakry, Guinea to address the massive gender education gap in Guinea by sending girls in Guinea to school, providing both financial support but also mentoring them to be leaders in their community.
Ousmane Ba
A champion for girls education and children’s rights, Ousmane is a student at Columbia University, studying political science and economics with a focus on peace and advocacy. In addition to leading peace-building initiatives in Guinea to promote youth engagement and civil duties in Guinea, Ousmane is a Global Youth Ambassador at A World at School, […]
CampBuni
CampBuni is a social enterprise that believes that we can’t solve problems with the same thinking that created them. As such, we need as many people to participate in problem solving in our shared home, mother Earth. CampBuni achieves this by enabling high school and pre-college youth to become system disruptors through Human Centered Design […]
Leroy Mwasaru
Leroy is a social entrepreneur, inquisitive learner, innovator and prober. He co-founded Greenpact, a social enterprise with his high school friends from Kenya in 2013, offering clean renewable Biogas solutions to institutions and homes in Kenya. His work with Greenpact has been featured in CNN, Upworthy, Grist, Huffington Post, Forbes, Fast Company and national media […]
Community Radio of Ouzio
Mohamed Ali Tourki is launching Community Radio of Ouzio in Ouzio, Comoros to take his community education program and translate into a radio station that will inform, educate and entertain 82,573 people from 4 regions of 67 villages, where 70% of them are illiterate and live in poverty. This will provide them with important information […]
Mohamed Ali Tourki
Mohamed Ali Tourki has worked for nine years in the area of community development, especially in education, gender equality, health, technologies, and environmental protection. He is a Grant writer and project manager of different projects such as a community center, schools, environment, English promotion and a radio station. Tourki has also worked with UNFPA, UNDP […]
Global Health Fund
In response to the high incidence of heart disease and death from cardiac arrest in India, Jasmit will work in Bangalore to train community members in CPR, raise awareness about preventive measures, and increase access to AEDs in slow EMS-response zones.
Jasmit Heera
Jasmit is currently a first year medical student at the American University of Antigua, and previously attended the University of Ottawa, where she pursued a bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering. Additionally, she completed the Canadian Disaster and Humanitarian Response Training Program at McGill University, and in the future she aims to pursue a career in Humanitarian Aid and […]
Project Plus One
Project Plus One developed a domestic violence education module to be integrated into an existing education program for midwives from rural regions of Timor Leste. Through this venture, 17 midwives were able to directly impact 115 patients across 17 different villages across 11 different rural regions of Timor-Leste. The midwives were trained in recognizing and […]
Sarah Van Buren
Sarah Van Buren is a graduate of Brandeis University who studied Biology and International & Global Studies with minors in Peace, Conflict, & Coexistence Studies and Women’s & Gender Studies.She holds with her a fundamental belief that every individual has the right to adequate healthcare. With these convictions, Sarah currently works with several health-focused NGOs including […]
