About Aminata Aminata is a 22-year-old Ivorian entrepreneur who is currently pursuing a degree in marketing and management. She has a passion for equality and ensuring women in rural areas are financially independent by helping them build thriving sustainable businesses. Aminata is a visionary leader that has clear and smart objectives she wants to achieve. Transition into Entrepreneurship …
About Joshua Joshua Armah completed secondary school 5 years ago. Due to circumstances, furthering to university was difficult for both Joshua and his twin so they had to find alternative measures to survive. Joshua was inspired by his mother, who has an orphanage taking care of over 6000 people with little to no financial support….
About Johnathan Johnathan studied at Namilyango Junior Boys and continued to Namilyango College for secondary education. While at Namilyango College, he taught himself software development. One of his biggest projects was an artificial swamp that helped villages in Namilyango to access clean water. His project won the National Water and Sewerage corporation innovation challenge as…
Olipah Chomba started her chicken farm as a survivalist entrepreneur. With aspirations to finish her medical degree, Olipah left her studies due to health issues and discovered her passion for farming. Not long after pursuing her farming activities and receiving support from her brother, Olipah founded Poultry. Poultry is a poultry enterprise which orders broiler…
Health and wellness has been a lifelong passion for Nomena, a Business Management student in Madagascar. She founded her healthy beverage company, BOISSA , with a view to contribute to promoting healthier consumption patterns in the country. BOISSA produces an assortment of healthy fruit juices from the native fruits of the island. The company’s objective…
Lamine Chamsiya, a student of management and corporate communication, is the co-founder of E3D- Niger, a start-up involved in the production of Neem and local marketing of bio-fertilizers, bio-pesticides, and cosmetic products. E3D is involved in agriculture and cosmetics, Lamine heads the cosmetic wing of the venture. E3D’s cosmetic wing manufactures and markets products such…
Andrew Ddembe, the founder of a conglomerate of businesses called Heart for the Hurt is a serial entrepreneur who manages a seasonality of businesses in Textile making, Restaurants, and Coffee production. His first business started off when he realised that there were not enough uniform suppliers in his community. So he used the profits made…
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…
Noah Walakira, eager to tackle the growing unemployment in his community, founded the Namirembe Sweater Makers at 14. Using his knitting skills taught by his late grandmother and earnings from petty jobs, he started a community-based organization that knits sweaters to combat unemployment. Of which earnings were used to put himself and other employees through…
