Stanford A. Joe

Stanford A. Joe has 14 years of experience working with youth from the church, community and the world. He also has nine years of experience in the non-profit sector and earned two Bachelor’s Degrees in Economics and Accounting from the African Methodist Episcopal University and Accounting and Criminal Justice from the African Methodist Episcopal Zion University. Stanford is also a 2018 graduate from the Young Political Leadership School, Semester Five and a Minister of the gospel, Assemblies of God Liberia Incorporated. Stanford has worked with several international and local organizations including Welthungerhilfe (Ex-German Agro Action), World Bank through the West [...]

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

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|

Aminata Traoré

Aminata Traoré has a master’s degree in financial management. Through the incubator, she hopes to develop an initiative that will produce juice from moringa and mango fruits and use the mango peels to make cosmetic products for skin and hair.

2021-02-08T09:27:23+00:0018th March 2020|

Kou Amelia Dahn

Kou Amelia Dahn has a passion for leadership, advocacy and community services and has been volunteering her services with reputable institutions in Kakata city and Liberia at large since she was a teenager. She worked with the Margibi County Health Team during the fight against Ebola epidemic in Liberia as a Psychosocial Support Officer, where she worked closely with affected families, Survivors, and Orphans of ebola. She worked with the survivors to found the Survivors Network in Margibi County. She is currently serving as Program Coordinator at Rising Youth Mentorship Initiative (RYMI). Through the incubator, she intends to develop the [...]

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

Ammarah Shah

Ammarah Shah is a social entrepreneur educationist who designs content for children narrated through modern storytelling techniques, online as well as offline. She is a master of puppetry, origami and an experienced public speaker in the local debating circuit. “Content for kids is being produced in written as well as in digital form but the motivation for a kid to chose a book over screen is lacking,” explains Anmarah. “I think more than producing more and more stories, what matters is that we update the medium of transferring the content to the children understanding their level of understanding.”

2021-02-08T09:37:08+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|
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