Chief Executive Officer Unique Quality Product Enterprise Tamale .Ghana Processes and markets fonio, a nutritious and climate resistant indigenous cereal. Has her background in agriculture science from her senior high school level, continued with her university education at university for development studies, she offered BSc. Agriculture Technology and majored in Economics and extension. She further proceeded to do her postgraduate degree in MPhil Agricultural Economics. Sinc

The complicated truth about food | Iben Krog Rasmussen Iben is one of four young women who founded Frej – Denmark’s first think tank on food. Iben has a Masters in political science and has been working in politics, been blogging for one of the biggest Danish newspapers, and is regularly on Danish radio and television. She grew up on a conventional commercial farm, is a member of the Danish Youth Climate Council, and collaborates with United Nation on the SDGs. Iben is a prof

New Africa a world of opportunities. We support female micro-entrepreneurs in Africa. We are proud to work with African people, especially with female entrepreneurs. All of them make a huge effort to make real theirs dreams come true. Their projects are an opportunity to change their life and to provide them an employment. Entrepreneurship is more than an opportunity, sometimes it is the only option. Today we are going dive deep in this amazing African continent. So, we are

Eco-preneur. Thato Kgatlhanye founder of Rethaka Trading, South Africa. Recycles plastic shopping bags into solar powered schoolbags that

As a small girl in Kenya, Lorna Rutto turned plastic litter into earrings. As an adult disturbed by plastic waste in her country, she founde

Social Entrepreneur. Daniela Papi-Thornton Social Entrepreneurship is a buzz word. In Daniela Papi-Thornton's talk, she explores how the co

As co-founder and global ambassador of the Malala Fund, Shiza Shahid, manages business operations for Malala Yousafzai, the teenager who became the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014.4 Like Malala, Shahid was born in Pakistan. She initially reached out to Malala in 2009 and worked to organize a camp for her and other Pakistani girls. In 2012, Shiza flew to Malala's bedside after she was targeted and shot by the Taliban for promoting education for girls. Inspire

A case for democratizing entrepreneurship education to ensure young people's preparedness for the future. Yogavelli Nambiar is the Chief Executive Officer at the Allan Gray Orbis Foundation. She was previously the Founder-Director of the Enterprise Development Academy at GIBS which she created to offer scholarship-based business education and support to entrepreneurs of start-up, micro and small enterprises. Just over two years old, the Academy team has worked with close to 1

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

✥ ChangeMakers ; Alexandria Villaseñor.⁠ ❛ Young women are leading climate movement.Women are to solve the climate change ❜⁠.⁠ Alexandria Villaseñor (born May 18, 2005) is an American climate activist living in New York. A follower of the Fridays for Future movement and of fellow climate activist Greta Thunberg, Villaseñor is a co-founder of US Youth Climate Strike and founder of Earth Uprising. Villaseñor's fight for climate action was sparked when she was caught in a smoke

Talk about us :DR. MAIRO MANDARA⁠ An obstetrician-gynaecologist by training, Mairo Mandara works with the foundation’s Nigerian partners to help improve the lives of the country’s #poorestpeople Before joining the foundation, she served as a senior country advisor to Nigeria for the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and as the Nigeria-based health systems advisor for the Earth Institute at Columbia University.⁠ ⁠ When people ask about my job, I tell them, “I work at the Gat

Noeline Kirabo is a passion driven Social Entrepreneur with a commitment to unlocking potential among young people. She is a Published Author, International Speaker, Life Coach, Certified Trainer and Motivational Speaker. She has over fifteen years’ work experience in the nonprofit sector mainly working with children, youth, women and community initiatives. She also has eight years of active practice as a counseling psychologist and six years’ experience as a personal and bus

Choosing a path of service: Amina J Mohammed . Ms Amina J. Mohammed was Minister of Environment of the Federal Republic of Nigeria from November 2015 to December 2016, where she steered the country’s efforts on climate action, protecting the natural environment and conserving resources for sustainable development. Prior to this, she served as Special Adviser to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Post-2015 Development Planning, where she was instrumental in bringing about the 20

Aya Chebbi (born 1988), is a Pan-African activist, Tunisian diplomat and feminist. She became the first appointed African Union Envoy on Youth in November 2018. Appointed by the chairperson of the African Union Commission Moussa Faki in November 2018, as the youngest senior official in the history of the African Union and youngest diplomat in the chairperson's cabinet. She supports the Chairperson in addressing his thematic priority of working with and for young people and ad

Changermakers : Dr.Malvika Iyer.

Main takeaways from the Webinar : “Entrepreneurship & Fragile Environments: Beyond Business as Usual” with Dr. Holly A. Ritchie.

Webinar : “Entrepreneurship & Fragile Environments: Beyond Business as Usual” by Dr.Holly A Ritchie.

✇ ChangeMaker : Marley Dias⁠ "Do your best don't worry about being the best" Marley Dias ( 2005) is an American activist and feminist.

Changemaker : Tu You You. 🔆11 February is #WomenInScience Day.⁠ Let’s smash #stereotypes.⁠

Changemaker : Vanessa Nakate