N’guessan’s desire to venture into agriculture lead to the founding of Yaletite Entrepreneurship Group Cl, an agricultural group with the aim of producing and marketing food crops for profit, locating subsidies for students with disabilities, and mobilizing youth for agricultural employment. At inception, the group’s primary objective was to produce and market food crops to support…
Sirjeff Dennis is recent graduate of the University of Dar es Salaam with a degree in petroleum engineering and the founder of Jefren Agrifriend Ltd. Company. He is very passionate about agronomy; his greatest compulsion is leadership and entrepreneurship and he is confident that he can help his community eradicate the tragedies of hunger, malnutrition,…
Benedicte Mundele is CEO and Founder of Surprise Tropical, an organic local business that promotes a healthy lifestyle in her community in the suburb of Kinshasa. “Food is more than eating. It is a relationship because with food we have culture, we have energy, emotion, the future, and healthiness,” she says. Highlighting her passion for…
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 a rural area in Swaziland, Lindokuhle lost his father at the age of 12 and moved in with his uncle, an agriculture teacher. While enrolled in Lusothi High School, Lindo became inspired to address two major issues in Swaziland: the environment and food production. Together with 15 classmates, Lindo established Eco-Eagle. Under Lindo’s…
Laetitia lives with her mother in the remote village of Bukura in Kenya and has never known her father. Despite her own challenges and responsibilities as the eldest of three sisters, Laetitia still made time to tutor fellow students when she was not studying. For as long as she can remember, she has sought to…
David Morfaw has always looked for business ventures that can support himself and his family. He even started various businesses at the young age of eight. From there, he moved up to his current venture, Poult-Vault Inc. which he believes can usher in a new era for his community financially. But he isn’t just thinking about the bottom line with Poult-Vault,…
