Suman Ali Lashari

Suman Ali Lashari is a young human right activist. At the age of 18 in 2016, she survived an acid attack from her 40-year old brother in-law whose marriage proposal she had rejected. In 2018, after fighting for 17 months, she won her battle for justice. Suman is now working on legislation for acid attack crime and the licensing of open sale acid in Pakistan. Suman is the first acid attack survivor in Pakistan who is a social media activist with her real identity of ”acid survivor” promoting woman empowerment in Pakistan. Through the incubator, Suman wants to start a [...]

2021-02-08T09:24:45+00:0018th March 2020|

Sumi Limbu

Sumi Limbu is a Graduate student of Arts and Social Work, a compassionate learner, an activist who believes in the power of change and equality, and a lover of poetry and storytelling. She is one of the leader/changemakers of EmpoweHER 2018 (idea incubation leadership program initiated by Ujyalo Foundation) where her idea “SAKHI”, an awareness campaign about menstruation through comic books, received seed funding. She strongly believes that through education and working from the ground root level, one day we will be able to end deep-rooted patriarchy in society. Sumi is currently working at United World Schools Nepal as a [...]

2021-02-08T09:24:45+00:0018th March 2020|

Wilson Atumeyi

Wilson Atumeyi is an anti-corruption activist and a communication specialist with over 5 years of experience working across diverse sectors in the development space to achieve better life outcomes for marginalised and vulnerable communities. Wilson Atumeyi is the founder of WaterWide, an initiative that tracks government spending for water and sanitation and amplifies the voices of people living in rural communities in Nigeria. Poor access to water and sanitation are linked to the transmission of diseases such as cholera, diarrhoea, dysentery, hepatitis A, typhoid, and polio. Absent, inadequate, or inappropriately managed water and sanitation services expose individuals to preventable health [...]

2021-02-08T09:24:44+00:0018th March 2020|

Modibo Sacko

Modibo Sacko is a young man committed to the development of his community. He holds a degree in philosophy and a diploma from the teacher training institute in history and geography. He is an alumnus of the program of the Regional Leadership Center LRC yali Dakar and Madiba institute on the 2063 vision of Africa. He is Executive Secretary of AJDS Mali and a member of several associations. Through the incubator, he intends to develop a platform that brings together civil society associations and groups in koulikoro to create a space for permanent exchange between citizens and governments.

2021-02-08T09:24:44+00:0018th March 2020|

Anum Rathore

Anum Rathore‘s work is centred at the intersection of gender equity and environment. Her passion for empowering and elevating the voices, stories, and wisdom of women has led her to form “Women Rights Forum Pakistan”, a project which works to empower women and trans-people. Anam believes that “the way to get started is to stop talking and start doing.” Through the incubator she aims to create an online space that empowers and educates women and the trans community on pro-women and pro-trans laws through storytelling guided by policy and data. She also wants to use offline platforms and empower women [...]

2021-02-08T09:37:15+00:0018th March 2020|

Arole Mariam Odunayo

Arole Mariam Odunayo is a legal practitioner with two years of post-call experience. She is also the Director of Programme for the Pro bono Centre, an emerging public interest litigation initiative. The initiative provides pro bono legal services to indigent, disadvantaged and marginalised residents of Lagos State, particularly victims of gender-based violence, child abuse and unfair dismissals. Through the incubator, she also intends to create an Accountable Endowment fund to cover the out of pocket expenses of pro bono lawyers such as transport, cost of filling, fines and court costs.

2021-02-08T09:37:19+00:0018th March 2020|

Believe Obafaiye

Believe Obafaiye is a social innovator who works constantly to create and innovate for social good. Through the incubator, she is developing an initiative called Thewatchers NG that seeks to promote access to equitable, quality, low-cost education in low-income communities. The initiative will achieve this by using technology to provide access to low-cost equitable quality education, and establishing data-driven accountability and transparency in the education sector for citizen participation in policy development and project implementation. It monitors government spending on education, improves access to information for and by citizens.

2021-02-08T09:37:29+00:0018th March 2020|

Coumba Diakite

Coumba Diakite is the founder of the company BY’RECYCL, which aims to put an end to the waste thrown in the streets of Mali. The company produces furniture and decorative objects made from used tires. In the long term the company wants to become a waste management industry and make West Africa an ecological example worldwide. In the city of Bamako, every day nearly 30,000 cubic metres of household waste is thrown away and less than 1/5 is recycled. To contribute to the reduction of pollution caused by this waste thrown through incineration Diakite has created the company BY’RECYCL. The [...]

2021-02-08T09:24:46+00:0018th March 2020|

Diana Sididi

Diana Sididi is passionate about human rights, especially those of people living with disabilities. She is the project manager of a technology laboratory for women. She is also co-founder of Derhane, a vlog that advocates for the acceptance of differences of any kind, and this is the project she intends to develop through the incubator. Very sensitive to community conflict issues, Diana dreams of seeing peace in Mali.

2021-02-08T09:37:34+00:0018th March 2020|

Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi

Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi is a multimedia Investigative Freelance and a Data Science Journalist, reporting for Today95.1 FM, Port Harcourt and a columnist for Climate Reporters, a West African news site that publishes both in English and French. Through the incubator, she wants to continue investigating the need for the Government to provide quality healthcare services for all, especially those in rural communities, and hold health workers accountable. As a community reporter, she visits communities to find out their challenges and report in a way that brings government and non-profit organizations’ attention to these issues. She recently embarked on an investigation on [...]

2021-02-08T09:37:39+00:0018th March 2020|
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