Standard Hydro

Lucien Charland, Charlene Kormondy, and their venture, Standard Hydro, construct and operate hydroponic shade houses in St. Kitts & Nevis to increase the resilience of the communities to climate-based threats to their food source and offer employment and training opportunities. Recently, the venture reported it is servicing approximately 450 weekly customers in the farmers’ market […]

Explore A New Language Project

Rejoice Dufe is launching the Explore a New Language Project. Explore a New Language Project is introducing a mobile language lab and a language center to provide English, French, and Spanish language training to orphans in Accra, Ghana so that they can build confidence and skills, and improve their prospects for higher education and employment.

Rejoice Dufe

Rejoice Dufe is a young woman who is passionate about children’s welfare and their rights to education. She is also a committed crusader of social change. Currently, she is a student at the University of Ghana Legon where she studies French and Linguistics. Rejoice aims to continue in the development of language education and establish […]

Alya Nurshabrina Sumadikan

Alya Nurshabrina, born in Jakarta, is an undergraduate IR Student of Parahyangan Catholic University in Bandung, Indonesia. She has been a coach in Adam Khoo Learning Technologies Group since 2011. She is also the winner of Wajah Femina 2014, one of Google Indonesia’s Inspiring Women for International Women’s Day 2016 and Youth Declaration presenter at […]

Ria Ellysa

Ria Ellysa was raised in Bengkalis, Indonesia. She is an undergraduate Industrial Engineering Student of Parahyangan Catholic University in Bandung, Indonesia. She is a fluent speaker of Bahasa, English, and Mandarin. She was particularly interested in issues about the environment which led her to become the Founder of Plastic Vending Machine. Plastic Vending Machine aims […]

Plastic Vending Machine

Ria Ellysa, Regina Rima Rianti, and Alya Nurshabrina Samadikun are founding Plastic Vending Machine.  This venture aims to reduce plastic waste in Bandung, Indonesia by introducing a reverse vending machine where people can receive money for trading in their used plastic bottles.  This will help address flooding that has been exacerbated by plastic waste clogging […]

Regina Rima Rianti

Born and raised in Jakarta, Regina moved and fell in love with Bandung city after being a student in Parahyangan Catholic University. As an active academic, she was a delegate for XXVI National Meeting of Indonesian International Relations Students, the Vice President of the International Relations Students Association 2015/2016, and an intern at Indonesia’s Foreign […]

The Cacao Project

The Cacao Project is an initiative which provides participating farmers of San Fernando with cacao seedlings (a long-term, resilient crop which provides them with a considerable income after three years and will be productive for up to 20-25 years), and short term crops such as bok choy, okra, and pumpkins (which will be productive after […]

Louise Emmanuelle Mabulo

Louise Mabulo is a chef, competitive archer, entrepreneur and agriculture advocate. She ensured herself a promising future in culinary arts when she became a Junior MasterChef Finalist in 2011 and bagged the Best Dessert in Asia Award at the Disciples des Escoffier Young Talent Trophy at the Hong Kong Food and Beverage Expo in 2015. […]

Abraham Tetteh Addy

Abraham Tetteh Addy is a recent graduate of Ashesi University College in Ghana with a first-class degree in Business Administration as a MasterCard Foundation Scholar. His passion for improved sanitation allowed him to work to initiate sanitation projects such as TranSite, Somnia, Trash4cash, and eventually Ahote Sanitation Project which serves as the umbrella project. For […]