Sua IT
Sua IT is a social venture that seeks to advance computer literacy to school children in rural communities. This project will use mobile information and communications technology (ICT) learning units using a unique curriculum, learning materials, and laptops which will be powered by generators. This will facilitate learning and skills development in ICT for these […]
Douglas Amoo-Sargon
Douglas Amoo-Sargon is a life long learner. He is part of the first cohort of the International Accelerated Degree Program between Arizona State University and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana. He is currently in the second year of his masters program in the field of biomedical engineering with focus in medical […]
Youth Empowerment Initiative (YEI)
Youth Empowerment Initiative (YEI) is a student-run initiative that aims to build the capacity of youth and support primary school education in Yumbe District, Uganda. The project recruits and trains youth mentors to provide mentorship to primary school children and provides textbooks and lesson revision materials to upper primary classes.
David Gai
David is a former refugee child who left his parents at 11 years to look for educational opportunities in Kakuma camp, Kenya. He got sponsorship to continue his studies in Uganda until Makerere University under MasterCard foundation scholarship and finished his Bachelor’s in Nursing Science. David is currently the CEO and founder of Refugees Educare […]
Brian Kirotich
Kirotich is tech enthusiast who loves to engage in building tech-based innovations that drive locally viable, high impact, scalable solutions. Driven by this intrinsic motivation, he co-founded Greenchar, a renewable energy startup that upcycles agricultural waste into clean and affordable cooking fuel. He has also worked on SokoMtaani a social enterprise revolutionising how small-holder farmers […]
Marvin Ambutu
Marvin is a Kenyan technology aficionado who enjoys developing tech-based innovations that foster locally viable, impactful and scalable solutions in service to society. He is currently pursuing a Bachelor’s in Computer Science at McGill University. He strongly believes in challenging the status quo to steer development back home through adopting fresh paradigms rooted in technology. […]
HappyDel
HappyDel is a non-profit social enterprise that leverages high mobile and Internet penetration in Africa to offer peer-to-peer counselling services for occupational therapy students and to raise awareness about mental health issues through social media platforms and a mobile app.
Asterix Hassan
Asterix Hassan is currently pursuing a double degree in Economics and Political science at McGill University. He is ever interested in improving the socio-economic welfare of his country Kenya and takes a keen interest in economics and politics. Equally important, he is a venturous social entrepreneur who is ever willing to seek innovative ways through […]
Susan Hilda Lokolimoe
Susan studies Social work and Social administration at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. She co-founded Girls Alive Uganda with classmates Suzan Mutoni and Marion Apio to address the lack of sanitary materials for vulnerable girls in Tororo District, Uganda.
Suzan Mutoni
Suzan is an undergraduate student of Environmental Health Sciences at Makerere University School of Public Health. She is the Project coordinator of the Girls Alive Project, an initiative that breaks the major barrier to girl child education through making reusable sanitary towels and teaching menstrual hygiene. She is also the head of the Public Health […]
