GrowLanka
Ishani Premaratne and Casimira Karunaratne received their Resolution Fellowships for ‘GrowLanka,’ a social Venture they founded along with Inesha Premaratne. Working with Harvard University’s Innovation Lab, Ishani and Casimira developed a prototype of GrowLanka, a voice-based mobile system that delivered job alerts to job seekers in northern Sri Lanka. In the aftermath of a 25+ […]
Looking Further
Sarah Penchyna of Looking Further will provide public high school students in Pachuca, Mexico, with tools to develop a ‘life project,’ documenting their skills, capabilities and economic scope in order to develop and achieve their short and long-term goals, as well as explore the ways that teenage pregnancy can impact those goals.
Sarah Penchyna
Sarah is a student who attends Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico majoring in international relations. She is the founder of Looking further and has always been interested in matters of women empowerment and education. Her social venture wants to provide young students with the tools to develop a life project to achieve their short and […]
Muhammad Mustapha Jammeh
Muhammad Mustapha Jammeh was born on the 21st January 1995 in the village of Farato which is on the urban periphery of the main city Banjul, The Gambia. He is presently enrolled in Bachelor of Business Administration program at Ashesi University in Ghana. A few years ago, Muhammad was also concerned about the direction of […]
GamFruits
GamFruits is a climate-smart fruit farm in Gunjur, Gambia that provides a hub for farmers to discuss matters affecting their daily farm practices, offering them a centre for outdoor learning in agriculture. GamFruits will also produce and sell healthy, nutritious, and affordable fruit to members of the community.
Wuyeh Jobe
Wuyeh Jobe comes from a township in the western part of the Gambia called Gunjur. He studied computer science at Ashesi University in Ghana. As a young African, Wuyeh finds passion in engaging in activities that improve the lives of people around him – helping his family on the farm to improve food sufficiency at […]
Countless Moves
Countless moves will create a program to build life skills and enhance cultural expression through dance in girls and young women in the Mathare slums of Kenya.
Eric Nehemiah
Eric Omwanda Nehemiah was born in 1990 in Nairobi, Kenya and holds a diverse set of accolades to his name. He is a new One Young World Ambassador, a Commonwealth Youth Worker Awards Africa Regional Winner, 2016 and the Co-Founder/Program Manager at Mathare Foundation where he also serves as the Secretary on the Executive Board. […]
Laetitia Mukungu
Laetitia Mukungu is from Kenya and is currently a MasterCard Foundation Scholar at EARTH University in Costa Rica where she studies agricultural engineering. She has a passion for agriculture and entrepreneurship and her work has been profiled in many publications, including Fast Company. Laetitia is also a 2012 Anzisha Prize Fellow, a 2014 Spark Kenya […]
Jacquiline Maina
Jacquiline Maina is an undergraduate student at EARTH, Costa Rica where she is currently pursuing an undergraduate degree in Agricultural Sciences. Her interests lie principally in food security, nutrition, psychology and environmental studies .Jacquiline worked briefly as a relationship officer for Equity Bank Kenya where she developed an interest for microfinance and entrepreneurship. She was […]
