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...
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’...
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...
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...
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...
Racheal Counters Violent Extremism and Empowers Women in Uganda
Racheal Mpiriirwe Kaigo, a 2018 Fellowship Alumna, is very familiar with political processes in Uganda. After finishing university, she worked for a women’s organization called...
American Impact Award: Bullets to Books
The inaugural American Impact Award event took place on March 17, presented by 2019 Reciprocal Exchange Participants Gail Prensky, Cindy Oxberry, Sean MacLaughlin, and Andy...
Alumni Reflect on the 2020 ILA Global Conference
In November of 2020, the International Leadership Association (ILA) hosted its first-ever global virtual conference. Seizing the opportunity to attend a world-class leadership conference without...
Fellowship Celebrates International Women’s Day by highlighting #WomenOfCourage
Courageous women inspire us to help make a better world. In honor of International Women's Day and the U.S. Department of State's Women of Courage...