Women who are changing our world. Kenya’s Dr Jemimah Kariuki wins 2021 Global Health Award

Evelyn founded Vouch Digital a technology start-up building a verified voucher system that helps eliminate fraud and corruption

♡ She's Sara Blakely and here are her Top 10 Rules for Success. 1. Trust your gut She graduated from Florida State University with a communication degree. 2. Differentiate yourself She occasionally worked as a stand-up comedian. 3. Embrace failure Although she initially planned to become an attorney, she reconsidered after failing the LSAT. 4. Visualize She accepted a job with office supply company Danka, where she sold fax machines door-to-door. 5. Be honest She was quite su

Women in Europe currently earn on average 17.5% less than men. This inequality has an impact throughout women’s lives and especially when they retire as lower salaries lead to lower pensions and a higher risk of poverty in older age. Equal Pay Day is the symbolic day dedicated to raising awareness of the gender pay gap. In the United States, this date symbolizes how far into the year the average women must work in order to earn what the average man earns in the previous year

It is crucial that women’s voices are heard and their work on the ground is recognised, valued and supported. Decisions should be made with them, not for them. Elisabeth Rehn (Finish Politician and former UN Under-Secretary-General) and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (Former President of Liberia and first elected female head of state in Africa). Quote taken from Women, War, Peace: The Independent Experts’ Assessment on the Impact of Armed Conflict on Women and Women’s Role in Peace-Bu

Due to this pandemic we had to postpone our entrepreneur project event in Barcelona several times. It's called LET'S TALK. What is Let's Talk Project? This project consists of several events where entrepreneur women, with different points of view, share their experiences, knowledge and background with other participants. In addition to this, we facilitate the relationship among attendees to create synergies and new collaborations. Our main goal is to share knowledge and exper

Due to this pandemic we had to postpone our entrepreneur project event in Barcelona several times. It's called LET'S TALK. What is Let's Talk Project? This project consists of several events where entrepreneur women, with different points of view, share their experiences, knowledge and background with other participants. In addition to this, we facilitate the relationship among attendees to create synergies and new collaborations. Our main goal is to share knowledge and exper

Due to this pandemic we had to postpone our entrepreneur project event in Barcelona several times. It's called LET'S TALK. What is Let's Talk Project? This project consists of several events where entrepreneur women, with different points of view, share their experiences, knowledge and background with other participants. In addition to this, we facilitate the relationship among attendees to create synergies and new collaborations. Our main goal is to share knowledge and exper

Dr. Fatima Akilu is the Executive Director of Neem Foundation. She also heads the Psychosocial Services Component of the foundation. She is a trained psychologist with over 20 years experience in the field of mental health and psychology. ⁠ ⁠ She has taught and authored research papers relating to homelessness, ethnicity and its relationship with mental health. Dr. Akilu holds a PhD in Psychology from the University of Reading (UK), and worked as an Adjunct Professor of Gener

Khanyi Chaba comes into this talk as head of responsible business in one of Africa’s largest insurance companies. In her own words, she feels great responsibility to help repair the future, and leave behind a world that is sound and sustainable for future generations. She is also a long distance runner who has completed some of the world's most challenging ultramarathons multiple times, and a mountaineer who has summited some of the planet’s highest peaks. Khanyi makes the po

✤ Wise Words by Melinda Gates. ❛ ⁠Sometimes all that's needed to lift women up is to stop pulling them down ❜⁠ ✤ Who is this remarkable woman ?⁠ Melinda Ann Gates (née French; born August 15, 1964) is an American philanthropist and a former general manager at Microsoft. In 2000, she co-founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with her husband Bill Gates, the world's largest private charitable organization as of 2015. Gates has consistently been ranked as one of the world's

Women who has changed the world. Wangari Maathai.⁠ ⁠ ⎰ I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me. All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet. It must be this voice that is telling me to do something, and I am sure it's the same voice that is speaking to

If we are truly to see social and economic change happening in the world, we have to embrace the wealth of possibilities in the counter-intuitive partnership between for-profit and not-for-profit. Kerryn heads the Network for Social Entrepreneurs at the Gordon Institute of Business Science, which focuses on achieving both social and economic change through social enterprise. Who is this #remarkablewoman ? Kerryn Krige is Chief Technical Adviser with the International Labour O

Being a shapeshifter, Ruth Kamau. Womenpreneur. Ruth Kamau She explains to us on her personal journey of becoming an #entrepreneur. As a woman of many talents and being involved in so much, we explore how and why she chooses to take on so much and how agility and resistance or as the Sci-fi lover would say, how being a shapeshifter is essential in order to survive and thrive with the changing times. Listen very carefully this podcast. https://entrepreneurstalk.africa/2020/10

✤ Books that every #entrepreneurwomen should read. ⁠ Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. ⁠ ⁠ Ubuntu is an ancient Southern African philosophy about how to live life well, together. It is a belief in a universal human bond, which says: I am only because you are. And it means that if you can see everyone as fully human, connected to you by their humanity, you will never be able to treat others as disposable or without worth. By embracing

Entrepreneurship. Majd Mashharawi. The Palestinian entrepreneur bringing power to Gaza

nspirational South African Female Entrepreneur :The power saver: Sarah Collins, Wonderbag

Entrepreneurship. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw.

Entrepreneurship and Artist : Jalila Essaïdi

Inspirational quote by Wangari Maathai. ⁠❛ It’s the little things citizens do. That’s what will make the difference ❜⁠ WANGARI MAATHAI