2019 Cohorts
Joan Nalubega
Uganics
(Uganda)
Uganics works toward a malaria-free world by offering natural, mosquito repellent formula in daily use cream and soap to communities facing malaria.
Chris way
Atinga Project
(Rwanda)
Atinga connects small-scale artisan shoemakers in Rwanda to a global market through selling sandals made from recycled tires.
BEATRICE KOROMA
eWomen
(Sierra Leone)
eWomen employs young people in Makeni, Sierra Leone, to recycle waste into unique new products such as trash bins made from used tires.
Sadik Ibn Abdulai
Tilaa Ltd.
(Ghana)
Tilaa Ltd. creates innovative beehives and trains local farmers on beekeeping and cashew production, bolstering job creation and improving land conservation in northern Ghana.
Tonny Wamboga
Our Roots Africa
(Uganda)
Our Roots Africa mitigates plastic waste and creates financial stability for farmers around Kampala through creating durable, plant-based straws made from local reeds
Daniel Yin
Spouts of Water
(Uganda)
Spouts of Water is committed to providing people with safe, clean drinking water through their innovative ceramic water filters built for families and communities.
Payton McGriff
Style Her Empowered
(USA)
Style Her Empowered focuses on education for girls in rural Togo, Africa, through programming and through products such as an adjustable, growing school uniform.
Kathy Mbondo
Proactive Merit
(
Kenya)
Proactive Merit encourages farmers to place beehives on acacia trees and then purchases the honey to resell in retail outlets in Nairobi.
University Student Team
Smart Farm Box
(Kenya)
Smart Farm Box is an innovative three-tier farming box that combines chickens, fish, and vegetables in a system that fits inside a family home.
Raphael Otakwa
Bio-Briquetting
(Kenya)
Bio-Briquetting produces eco-friendly briquettes made of biomass to replace firewood for cooking, fighting deforestation in Kenya.
Jessica Ho
Museum of TOmorrow
(USA)
Museum of Tomorrow is a pop-up museum that uses an innovative approach to portray climate change.
Nabeel Jaffer
Manavta
(Nepal)
Manavta has created an ecological sanitation system to capture nutrients, prevent water pollution, and utilize energy from bio waste to produce a fertilizer that can be used on crops.
Darius Roberts
Uplift Solar
(USA)
Uplift Solar creates power electronics that fit inside solar panels and energy storage devices, improving power production, lowering the cost of installations, and enhancing features for innovative power systems.
Nadine Brandy
Garbage Receptacles
(West Africa)
Garbage Receptacles aims to create a trash receptacle that can compact the trash in order to collect more trash.
Charlie Bullard
LifeBox, Inc.
(USA)
LifeBox, Inc. creates sustainable modular housing units out of recycled shipping containers to be used for rapid deployment in regions that have been impacted by natural disasters.