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Founder & CEO, http://t.co/PyyoG9Neim; Chairman & CEO, Gravitas Capital. Guinea-raised, Harvard-educated, 20yrs in banking. Come Make a Difference...Back Home.

Global, Washington, DC
Joined July 2011
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22,000 students in one year 🤖 Fundi Bots 🇺🇬 hit that pace in 2023 — 60,928 students since 2016 across 284 schools. Help reach 1M youth by 2030: every.org/fundi-bots-ug?utm_… #Robotics
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Clean water grows food 🌱💧 Farmer Tantoh 🇨🇲: 1,000+ gardens, 70+ water projects, 60,000+ people reached in Cameroon. Diaspora, help the next garden grow: every.org/farmertantoh?utm_s…
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Entrepreneurship you can hold in your hands 🇨🇩 At Sage Entrepreneurs Academy, founders learn by making — production, finance, marketing. 30,500+ trained in eastern DRC. Support them: every.org/sage-entrepreneurs… #YouthEntrepreneurs
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Living minutes from the sea — and never in it 🌊 Many SA children can walk to the ocean but far fewer can swim. Hanli Prinsloo's I AM WATER 🇿🇦 changes that: 53,325+ children in ocean workshops. Help: every.org/homestringsashoka-… #OceanConservation
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Leaving home to work shouldn't mean leaving your rights behind ✈️ Lilian Keene-Mugerwa's PLA has equipped 20,429 people in Uganda with safe-migration knowledge & helped 386 migrant workers access justice. Help the next journey be safe 🇺🇬: every.org/homestringsashoka-… #SafeMigration
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Science built by hand stays 🔬 In Uganda, Fundi Bots kids as young as six build robots in class — 60,928 students across 284 schools so far. Help reach 1M youth by 2030: every.org/fundi-bots-ug?utm_… #EducationForAll
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A well takes a day to drill — keeping its water clean takes a trained community 💧 Farmer Tantoh 🇨🇲 has helped villages do exactly that across 70+ projects for 60,000+ people in Cameroon. Back the next village: every.org/farmertantoh?utm_s…
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One restarted business, three households back on their feet 🇨🇩 A Sage Entrepreneurs Academy founder doubled her income, rented a stall — and hired two young people. Fund the next woman founder in eastern DRC: every.org/sage-entrepreneurs… #WomenEntrepreneurs
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Youth leading youth 🌊 Hanli Prinsloo's I AM WATER 🇿🇦 has trained 160 youth facilitators from coastal communities — who have now reached 53,325+ children through ocean workshops. Train the next one: every.org/homestringsashoka-… #SaveOurOceans
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100,000+ children withdrawn from exploitative labour & helped back to education by Lilian Keene-Mugerwa's Platform for Labour Action in Uganda 🇺🇬 Help bring the next child home to school: every.org/homestringsashoka-… #EndChildLabour
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In Uganda, discarded e-waste becomes robotics labs 🤖 Fundi Bots students build farm inventions from recycled parts — 60,928 students reached. Help reach 1M youth by 2030: every.org/fundi-bots-ug?utm_… #STEMEducation
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Train a young person to drill a well, and a village gains clean water — and a livelihood 💧 Farmer Tantoh 🇨🇲 has delivered 70+ water projects for 60,000+ people in Cameroon. Help train the next driller: every.org/farmertantoh?utm_s…
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"A $200 grant doesn't just restock a stall. It puts children back in school." — Ashoka Fellow Sage Rutakaza 🇨🇩 His Academy has trained 30,500+ entrepreneurs and created 450 businesses in eastern DRC. Fund the next seat: every.org/sage-entrepreneurs…
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UGX 4.56bn recovered in unpaid wages & compensation ⚖️ Lilian Keene-Mugerwa's Platform for Labour Action has given free legal aid to 67,000+ vulnerable workers in Uganda. Fund the next case 🇺🇬: every.org/homestringsashoka-… #WorkersRights
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Train a coach, change a coastline 🌊 Hanli Prinsloo's I AM WATER 🇿🇦 is scaling through its OCEAN FOR ALL Alliance: 53 coaches trained in Ecuador & the Galápagos, 77 workshops, 1,095 children reached. Support: every.org/homestringsashoka-… #OceanConservation
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In Uganda, girls are building robots from recycled e-waste 🤖 Fundi Bots has trained 60,928 students & 1,197 teachers in 284 schools. Help reach 1M youth by 2030: every.org/fundi-bots-ug?utm_… #STEMEducation
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Clean water starts at the source 💧 Farmer Tantoh 🇨🇲, Ashoka Fellow & 2025 EARTHNA Prize winner, has built 20 water recharge facilities and supported 1,000+ gardens in Cameroon. Diaspora, protect the next spring: every.org/farmertantoh?utm_s… #CleanWater #DiasporaGiving
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Record-breaking freediver Hanli Prinsloo 🇿🇦 founded I AM WATER to give coastal youth safe access to the ocean. 160 facilitators trained, 53,325+ children reached. We protect what we love 💙 Support: every.org/homestringsashoka-…
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In eastern DRC, an unprocessed harvest is income lost. Ashoka Fellow Sage Rutakaza is building shared production facilities that turn wasted produce into businesses for young food entrepreneurs 🇨🇩 Support Rebuild, Restore, Renew: every.org/sage-entrepreneurs…
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