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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|

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|

Emmanuel Kaboshio Bagudu

Emmanuel Kaboshio Bagudu is a multimedia Journalist currently residing in Abuja. Besides holding a Bachelor of Arts (BA. Hons.) in Theatre and Performing Arts from Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Emmanuel has over the years engaged in different advocacy initiatives using the development communications strategy. Organisations such as the Premium Times, the British Broadcasting Corporation, The Nigerian Television Authority, and many civil society organisations have benefitted from his expertise. He is among the three winners of the 2020 edition of the SDG 16 innovation challenge in Nigeria organised by Accountability Lab. Through the incubator he intends to grow his initiative the [...]

2021-02-08T09:37:49+00:0018th March 2020|

Fouad Bajwa

Fouad Bajwa has been actively involved with open technology, public policy and entrepreneurship. He has worked globally with various initiatives targeted at bringing open and low- cost technology to the less privileged. He is contributing to startups in the areas of artificial intelligence, biomedical engineering, public policy and governance. A mass skills dissemination program promoting learning, community and recognition that tries to remove the barriers that stand in the way of acquiring skills.

2021-02-08T09:37:44+00:0018th March 2020|
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