African Women Entrepreneurs Break Barriers

After budding Kenyan entrepreneur Chebet Lesan, 2016 Fellowship Alumna, quit a lucrative job as an industrial designer to concoct eco-friendly charcoal briquettes in her parents’...

Working for Women’s Financial Empowerment in CAR

To address low financial literacy among women in Central African Republic, 2016 Fellowship Alumna Olive Michele Dol-Somse founded Bekilita, a social enterprise that educates, trains...

Together, We Are Stronger

The 2021 theme of World Health Day: “building a fairer, healthier world” is a daily goal for Claire Sambou. Claire is a Mandela Washington Fellowship...

NGO donates mobility aids to 100 students in Ondo

2019 Fellowship Alumna Folajogun Akinlami's nongovernment organization, Differently Abled Foundation, donated walking aids and low vision writing aids for over one hundred students in schools...