Benedict Ampofo, a 4th year medical student in Ghana, has always seen himself as a budding social entrepreneur. Growing up, his sense of responsibility and a desire to impact the world challenged him to do something different. Coming from a low-income family, an itching desire to help families like his sprung forth; he wanted to…
Mabel is passionate about poverty alleviation through entrepreneurship, with a particular focus on empowering persons with disabilities with relevant skill sets unique to their needs as well as providing formal employment. She is a student social entrepreneur pursuing her Bachelors’ from university with a focus on Development Studies. Her desire to empower the disabled…
Winnifred Selby co-founded the Ghana Bamboo Bikes (GBB) in an effort to address unemployment and environment degradation through effective use of local resources. Bamboo being an environmentally friendly local resource, she co-created the project to make handmade bikes. GBBI presently has 35 employees, of which a majority are women with an average family of 5,…
Chineye’s passion for art and the environment stirred up a desire to create a space where she could teach fellow students how to create great art pieces using trash.At 21, she founded the Mosaicinspiration project, a venture that converts trash into art and trains other young Africans in the art of recycling. Despite facing…
You may have known someone like Yaw in high school, with a knack for understanding risk and the fortitude to take it. At the Accra Academy, Yaw noticed several high school classmates regularly unable to travel home for holidays. While the obvious possibility of giving schoolmates money to go home for the holidays was there,…
