The Flow Initiative
The Flow Initiative will provide education about menstruation and reusable sanitary pads for impoverished girls in Zimbabwe. The educational program will de-stigmatize the issue of menstruation and will promote the use of a sustainable and eco-friendly solution.
Rutendo Ngwena
Rutendo Ngwena is a young Zimbabwean woman who is passionate about youth development and building sustainable communities. She is the founder of The Flow initiative Zimbabwe, which is tackling challenges related to sexual reproductive health for young girls and women in Zimbabwe. This initiative provides free education and information on reproductive health issues, creates pathways […]
Tuniq
Iman Masmoudi is launching Tuniq in Tunis, Tunisia, a community-oriented design label employing Tunisian craftswomen in rural areas to bring traditional designs and modest clothing to Tunis and the world, while empowering the women and their communities through social programs directed at health and education and funded by a portion of the profits.
Iman Masmoudi
Iman Masmoudi is a senior at Harvard University. She grew up in a large Tunisian-American family in Charlotte, North Carolina. After the Arab Spring started in Tunisia, she became dedicated to contributing to the success of democracy in her parents’ home country, which she visited every summer. She founded Munawwara with her sister in order […]
Zawadi Healthcare Services
Gift Kiti is launching Zawadi Healthcare Services in Kashani, Kenya (near Mombasa) to enhance the quality of life for residents by constructing a borehole that will provide safe and clean water to the local Zawadi Healthcare clinic, while also providing a water source to a town that is currently facing water rationing. Gift aims to […]
Gift Kiti
Gift Kiti, MPH is a public health specialist who currently serves as a Senior Analyst at the Evidence Measurement and Evaluation department of the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation in London. Previously, was as a Program Manager and Research Analyst at the Institute of Global Health Sciences at UCSF. She served as the lead coordinator in […]
RefRights
Tanveer Jeewa is launching RefRights in Cape Town, South Africa. RefRights is building a software application for refugees, to alleviate the burden of organizations such as the Refugee Rights Unit. The app will identify the issues of the refugees and then provide them with letters addressed to authorities (with respect to their issues) informing them […]
Tanveer Jeewa
Tanveer Jeewa, in her final year as a Mauritian Law student at the University of Cape Town, strikes by her sparkling joie de vivre. Her crystalline laughter hides a deep and engaged mind and soul, equalled only by her untiring drive to make a positive change around her. She volunteers within her field of study, […]
Fempower (Fempoder)
Carlos Vargas is launching Fempower in Caracas, Venezuela. Fempower empowers young women, through training and development of digital competencies, to develop social enterprises and gain skills to improve the quality of life of the participants and their communities.
Carlos Vargas
Carlos Eduardo Vargas is a lawyer with a Governability, Public and Political Management Diploma, an MBA Candidate, a social entrepreneur, an innovator, and a strategist. He is the co-Founder & Chair of 1001 Ideas. Through his work, he has become a Global Shaper of the Caracas Hub, One Young World’s Venezuelan Ambassador, Resolution Fellow of […]
