Richard Turere hails from the pastoral Maasai community in Kenya. As a young boy, he was responsible for herding and caretaking his family’s herd of cattle. Because Richard’s family lives on the periphery of the unfenced Nairobi National Park, they often experienced lion attacks on their livestock, leading to devastating losses of livestock that they…
Edgar Edmund is the founder of GreenVenture. Seeing how the rains and floods destroyed houses in his country and how houses were weak because of poor foundations and poor building materials, Edgar was inspired to solve this problem by turning adversity into opportunity. GreenVenture Recycles plastic waste into cheap and affordable building products such as paving blocks….
Growing up, Asha Abbas, a 17 year old from Tanzania, noticed that many young Tanzanians were not getting adequate sex education. Realizing the health risk Tanzanian teenagers face as a result of being ill-informed, where young Tanzanian women are at a higher risk of contracting HIV than men, she was inspired to found Aurateen….
Gabriel Kombassare, a young Ivorian man whose community poverty situation inspired him to make a difference. Seeking to eradicate starvation in his region, at 17 he purchased a piece of land to cultivate staple food, founding a student-run farming association called Ribla Neda. Ribla Neda members cultivate basic staple food like maize and cassava to feed…
Born in Mwanza, on the shores of Lake Victoria, Faisal Burhan had a modest upbringing. After his parent’s divorce, Faisal continued to receive some support while he remained at boarding school in a village called Katoro in northwestern Tanzania. Faisal’s prodigious curiosity propelled him to explore science with a great intensity. Faisal first feat was…
