Guérté Réwmi Company
Gérté Réwmi seeks to create jobs in Dakar, Senegal by assisting farmers in refining raw peanuts to create products such as peanut butter, which will increase employment, raise incomes, and better utilize Senegalese natural resources. They will also adhere to environmentally sustainable practices in turning their peanut waste into animal food.
Fatou Kine Sambe
Fatou Kine is a Senegalese girl majoring in Applied Mathematics with a minor in Human Rights and Transnational Justice at the American University of Beirut. She is an alumnus of the African Leadership Academy where she earned a diploma in Entrepreneurial Leadership. With the skills acquired, she created her first Startup Guerte Rewmi that aims […]
Fipie
Fipie is a volunteer platform that connects social initiatives with agents of change (volunteers, enterprises, and institutions), with the aim of increasing the social impact of the said initiatives and creating a more philanthropic culture in the region.
María Serrano Nuila
Maríais a Salvadoran student currently enrolled in a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Businessat Escuela Superior de Economía y Negocios (ESEN). She is one of the co-founders, and CEO of Fipie, a volunteer platform that connects social initiatives with agents of change (volunteers, companies, and other organizations) to increase their social impact in El Salvador. […]
Rolando Pelicot
Rolando Pelicot is a 22-year-old Panamanian student currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Business at Escuela Superior de Economía y Negocios (ESEN) in El Salvador. He is a creative, critical, and empathetic leader committed to creating a better world and he loves entrepreneurship, volunteering, and teamwork. Rolando is co-founder of Fipie, a social […]
Kakuma Thrives
Mary Maker is the founder of Kakuma Thrives, a two-week camp that will offer young people in the Kakuma refugee camp the opportunity to learn about sexual health, marriage, consent, and safety. The young people will then utilize what they learned to produce dramas based on their own stories that will educate and begin to […]
Mary Nyiriak Maker Deng Malou
Mary Nyiriak Maker Deng Malou, who goes by Mary Maker, is a student at St. Olaf College, and a former teacher at Kakuma Refugee Camp. She is double majoring in Theater and Political Science with a concentration in Women and Gender Studies. Being a passionate believer in education, she gave a TED talk in 2018 […]
Annelle Kayisire
Annelle is a student at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. She grew up in Kigali with her parents and four siblings. Her earliest memories include being a sister for the first time, where she witnessed, through her mother, the indispensable strength of women. Her biggest ambitions include improving reproductive health and designing creative technology for social […]
Crepin Kayisire
Crepin Gontran Kayisire is a Computer Science major at the African Leadership University. As a young man, Crepin was always interested in how machines work. In high school, as part of a STEM competition, he built a web application for students to meet and chat with tutors and mentors online. This project exposed him to […]
Kevin Gautier Kayisire
Kevin Gautier Kayisire is a 23-year-old gentleman residing in Kigali, Rwanda. He is currently a software engineer at HeHe Innovation Academy. A highly motivated and hardworking individual; Kevin is currently pursuing his Bachelors’s degree in Computer Science at the African Leadership University. Kayisire also did his high school studies at SOS Hermann Gmeiner Technical High […]
