…deprived of dignity and opportunity. Think of the young women from northern Mali to Afghanistan whose schools have been destroyed. Or of the girls across Africa, the Middle East, and…
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When Pain Derailed This Doctor’s Career, She Started a $5 Million Nonprofit That Saves Pregnant Women’s Lives Around the World
…2002. Today, Stachel is the globe-traveling co-founder of We Care Solar, a social enterprise that manufactures solar-powered suitcases that provide power to maternal health facilities in Africa, Asia and other…
Dr. Ibilola Amao: Technical Solutions in Lagos
…in Africa and all over the world. I have been involved in training Africans for the past 26 years to take up leading roles and compete effectively with their foreign…
Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille on Protecting Society’s Vulnerable
Mayor Patricia de Lille is not waiting for national leaders to step up to save the planet and protect its people. The plain-spoken mayor of Cape Town, South Africa’s second…
5 Crowdfunders to Watch – A World of Creativity
…Owners Designs Africa-Inspired Shoes (via Plum Alley) The Business: Fashion can make a powerful statement. With their shoes, the founders of Buqisi-Ruux hope to convey their “love for Africa and…
Being an Immigrant and a Woman: Double Advantage or Double Disadvantage?
…provide an opportunity to aid other members of her community with helpful services or products and by introducing them to entrepreneurial values. Sabina Zunguze created A Gift to Africa after…
5 Crowdfunders to Watch – Innovative Concepts
…and Brian Fosse named their company after a woman who taught them about babywearing while they were in Africa. “We were impressed with how easily babies integrate into daily life…
Stephanie Heinatz: Consociate Media– Storytelling For Good Causes
…@consociatemedia Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ConsociateMedia Reason for starting I cut my teeth as a newspaper journalist. Whether working on assignment in my small, Virginia hometown, or in remote areas of East Africa…
Kenyan Entrepreneur: Dust off Failure to Embrace Success
…awards including the Goldman Sachs Fortune Global Leaders Award. In an interview with Ventures Africa, an online African business publication, Muraya said, “If in any economy of the world women…
Tanya Kisten of Khanyisela College: Corporate Training & Leadership Development for Young Professionals
…Port Elizabeth, South Africa Reason for starting: I was frustrated with the fact that I could only execute other people’s decisions at a big corporation I was working at, despite…
Business Headlines for Busy Female Entrepreneurs
…make up more than 50% of its startups. (Currently, it’s 36% of the 225 startups.)” Catalyzing the Power of Africa’s Youth (Source: Stefanie Bauer for Next Billion) “Africa’s growth story,…
The Women Entrepreneurs’ Toolbox
…in its programs to improve the lives of 1 million people. In addition to offering programs out of Boulder, Colo., it also has locations in Mexico and eastern Africa. Chicago,…
The Young and The Relentless: Entrepreneurs under 25
…how they could functionally make it work. The pair knew they needed engineers to help design their product but many were skeptical. So they booked their tickets to Africa. They…
Friday Four
…to peruse what UN Women has put together. The Young Women Who Hunt South Africa’s Poachers — Unarmed Laura Mallonee, Wired (Photos by Julia Gunther) We loved this look at…
Ep. 33: Instead of Building a Wall…
…love with Argentina. SUE: After that… KATE: I went to France for a couple of weeks. When I went home, I said, “I’m going to Africa next. I always wanted…