According to the United Nations, the number of people working in agriculture across Sub-Saharan Africa has fallen by five percent (5%) since 2005, even while...
How a Mandela Washington Fellow and Wisconsin Community Member Sparked a Groundbreaking Collaboration
While the COVID-19 pandemic has been devastating to millions, especially those who are most marginalized, Mpho Seipubi, 2019 Fellowship Alumna, and Wisconsin resident Kathi Seiden-Thomas...
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...
YALI Reunions Week: Our Most Inspiring Zoom Calls Yet
From March 15 – 23, the Presidential Precinct hosted its first-ever Mandela Washington Fellowship Alumni Reunions Week. It was jam-packed with Zoom calls for each...
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...
Reciprocal Exchange Participants and Fellowship Alumni Awarded Citizen Diplomacy Action Fund (CDAF)
The Mandela Washington Fellowship is proud that 28 Fellowship Alumni and Reciprocal Exchange participants were awarded the Citizen Diplomacy Action Fund.
You’re the Change You Want to See, Says One Young Leader in Benin
2017 Mandela Washington Fellow Maureen Jessica Gaba is an assistant in the Ministry of Digital Economy and Communication in Benin and is using mobile banking...
Announcing Gates Foundation Generation Equality Forum Youth Grantees
Congratulations to N'zani Kassim Zani, 2019 Fellowship Alumna from Kenya, on her organization the Hijabi Mentorship Program recently being awarded a $50,000 grant from the...
‘Paving the Way for Girls’ by Addressing Gender Inequality
Gender equality cannot be achieved without the involvement of men and boys. They must abandon harmful stereotypes, embrace respectful, healthy relationships, and support all people’s...