African Achievers International endeavours not only to create an on-line forum that showcases members' expertise, experience, and perhaps a bit of their personalities, but also to maintain one where visitors may search free of charge, in contrast to traditional book publishers who sell costly and unwieldy volumes of their data.
Waris is a Somali model, author, actress and social activist. In 1997, abandoned her modeling career to focus on her work against FGM. That same year, she was appointed the UN Special Ambassador for the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation. In 2002, she founded the Desert Flower Foundation in Vienna, Austria, an organization aimed at raising awareness regarding FGM...
Justina is the Founder & President of the Justina Mutale Foundation and its Scholarship Programme for underprivileged African Young Women. She is also Founder of POSITIVE RUNWAY: The Global Catwalk to Stop the Spread of HIV/AIDS. Named as one of Africa’s most respected names, well-known faces, and influential voices, Justina is listed in various Who’s Who Lists...
For those with an interest in helping Nigeria’s orphans and vulnerable female population, Dr. Kemi is a name that comes up quite often. As a member of the Erelu Adebayo Foundation, or ERAF, as well as one of the two primary physicians within Ideal Eagle Hospital, She is the founder of WARIF and has become somewhat of a household name in many circles within the country...
Buumba is a councillor for Magoba ward in Zambia, is a dynamic Humanitarian aged 24 and founder of Buumbalambo Foundation. Her Humanitarian work has given her the privilege to be on great platforms like the Queen young leaders advisory panel where she met the Queen at Buckingham palace in June 2015. Her Charity is currently working on a project to stop early marriages in rural Zambia...
Mohamed Muktar Jama "Mo" Farah, CBE (born 23 March 1983) is a British distance runner. On the track, he mostly competes over 5000 metres and 10,000 metres, but has run competitively from 1500 metres to the marathon. Born in Somalia, Farah moved to the UK as a child. Farah runs distance races tactically, but also can maintain a fast pace and has a quick sprint finish. Farah is additionally involved in various philanthropic initiatives, launching the Mo Farah Foundation after a trip to Somalia in 2011. The following year, he participated in ITV's The Cube and won £250,000 for his foundation, becoming the first person ever to win the top prize on the show.
Denis(born 1 March 1955) is a Congolese gynecologist. He founded and works in Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, where he specializes in the treatment of women who have been gang-raped by rebel forces. Mukwege has become the world's leading expert on how to repair the internal physical damage caused by gang rape. He has described how his patients arrive at the hospital sometimes naked, usually in horrific condition. In 2014, Mukwege was awarded the European Union's Sakharov Prize and in 2013, he received his first of three nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize. On May 28, 2015, Dr. Mukwege was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws by Harvard University.
Born in Kenya, Wanjiru holds a PhD and a Master’s degree in
Political Science from the University of Minnesota, a Bachelor of
Arts degree in Politics from Whitman College in Washington,
U.S.A. Prior to joining AWARD as the
Director, Dr Wanjiru founded and served as Executive Director of
Akili
Dada, an award-winning leadership incubator that invests in
high-achieving young women from under-resourced families, who are
passionate about driving change in their communities. Wanjiru also
served as an assistant professor of Politics at the University of
San Francisco and a lecturer in International Relations at the
Jesuit Hekima College, a constituent college of the Catholic
University of Eastern Africa.
Boniface (born July 10, 1983) is an award-winning Kenyan
photojournalist involved in social-political activism through his
initiative Team Courage a movement that aims to instill a sense of
hope and self-belief in a generation of young change makers by
enabling patriotic citizens to take bold and effective actions in
building a new Kenya. He is known for his images of the
post-election violence that hit Kenya in 2007–2008. He is also the
founder of Picha Mtaani, a youth-led peace initiative that
primarily seeks to create space for young people to reconcile and
become agents of reconciliation to their respective communities.
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Farmer is the Founder and Director of Save The Future Association. Dieudonne Tantoh Nforba, popularly known as Farmer Tantoh, was born in Nkambe, a rural community of the North West region of Cameroon. He became very interested in environmental and agricultural activities while a teenager in high school, thus earning him the nickname “Farmer”. After high school, he studied agriculture at the regional college of agriculture in Bambilib, Cameroon and graduated with an HND in 2004, specializing in spring water catchment conservation and agroforestry. In 2007, he was selected as the first participant from Africa, in the Tahoe Baikal Institute, to study the watersheds of the world. Later on, he also studied organic farming practices and horticulture /landscaping at the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Currently, Farmer Tantoh has been elected an Ashoka Fellow in Washington DC...
Born in Malawi, Marie Da Silva has been working as a nanny in the United States for the past sixteen years. In 2002, Marie visited her mother and met the headmaster and teachers of a school housed in a nearby church. A year later the school had to move out of its premises and had nowhere to go. Marie's late mother, Aisha Da Silva, donated for use as a school and sanctuary for orphans. The school was at first housed in Da Silva's childhood home, just outside Blantyre, outside which Da Silva placed a sign reading "Free education for AIDS orphans. The Jacaranda Foundation is an American/Malawian grassroots organisation founded in 2002 by Malawian Marie Da Silva. Marie's love for children and her personal history gave her the inspiration and sense of urgency to rescue orphans and raise awareness about their plight. Like so many Malawian families, Marie's family was struck by the AIDS pandemic...
Born in South Africa Ambassador Edgars is a multi- award winning, GBSH Consult Group Chairman, well known business authority, seasoned diplomat & a cutting edge thinker with an outstanding record in planning, managing and executing highly successful private and public sector initiatives in Africa, Europe, America & Asia. He is Africa’s leading authority and informed voice on knowledge of foreign policy community, Growth and Competitiveness Practice, complex negotiations, strategic foresight, government affairs, brand strategy and how countries & businesses can be active participants in their own development. He holds a Doctorate in Strategic Foresight, Diplomacy & Security Intelligence. A Bachelors degree in International Law & Legal Studies (LLM., J.S.D +S.J.D)- Egregia cum laude, preceding Masters from the University of Bradford (Actuarial Science, Mathematics and Statistics)...
Betty is a Zimbabwean gender activist who in 1999 founded the Girl Child Network, a charity which cares for Zimbabwe's young sex abuse victims; the organization has rescued more than 35,000 girls and provided mentoring to at least 60,000 girls around Zimbabwe. She earned two degrees from the University of Zimbabwe, and has been awarded numerous national and international awards. Orphaned as a child and sexually abused, Makoni is the principal subject in the documentary film, Tapestries of Hope. In 2003 the Women's World Summit Foundation awarded Makoni with the Prize for Women's Creativity in Rural Life. In 2007, Makoni won the World's Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child. In 2008, Amnesty International awarded her its Ginetta Sagan Award for her work with the GCN. In 2012 her autobiography Never Again was published. The book was launched in Essex on 13 April 2013.
Victoria is the founder of SELFINA, a leader who has used innovation, initiative, and determination to empower women in Tanzania to become economically self-sufficient, focusing especially on women who are heading families after being widowed by the rapidly spreading scourge of HIV/AIDS. Victoria was profiled by the World Bank in 2007 – Doing Business in Africa; she is an alumnus of Vital Voices.
Evans (born 11 March 1986) is a Kenyan engineer, the Co-Founder of GreenWize Energy Ltd, the Executive Director and Founder of SDFA-Kenya, and one of CNN's top ten heroes of 2010. He is a graduate in Electronic and Computer Engineering from the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology in Kenya.
Saran is a clean water advocate and social entrepreneur from Liberia. She is the Founder of FACE AFRICA, an award winning social enterprise working to strengthen water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) infrastructure and services in rural communities across sub-Saharan Africa. She is World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and a 2016 TIME Magazine Next Generation Leader.
Jaha (born 1989 or 1990) is a Gambian women’s right activist and anti-female genital mutilation campaigner. She is the founder and executive director of Safe Hands for Girls, an organization working to end FGM, and is the lead campaigner in The Guardian's End FGM Guardian Global Media Campaign. In April 2016, she was named to the 2016 Time 100 list.
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