Little Big Fellows 2024-2025
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Monal Bhattarai
Monal is dedicated to advancing education and gender equality. As the Managing Director of Canopy Nepal, she works to make education more accessible and reduce dropout rates in Nepal. UN Women recognized her as part of the "30 for 2030" network, where she contributed to campaigns addressing online gender-based violence. She is also part of the Global Shapers community.
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Kuol Arou Kuol
Kuol is a peacebuilder, refugee, and youth activist from South Sudan. Having had a childhood that was significantly affected by war, in 2018 Kuol co-founded SPEAK, an organization that facilitates conflict-resolution between refugees and their host communities, and among refugees themselves. Kuol is an alumnus of the Peacebuilding Institute Rwanda, YALI East Africa, the African Changemakers Fellowship, Ashoka Leaders Academy, Athari Group Fellowship, and Ubuntu United Nations.
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Ramatu Ada Ochekliye
Ramatu is a content creator. She is the founder of Shades of Us, a storytelling initiative for African people that works as a media platform where she uses a suite of written, audio, visual, and audiovisual content to promote eleven global goals she has adopted as personal mantras. Her work especially focuses on the issues that affect women, children, people with disabilities, and other marginalized members of society. She is part of The Moth Alumni of Storytellers.
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Christine Njagi
Christine, a former actuarial science lecturer turned social justice champion, based in Nairobi, Kenya, is the founder and director of the Common Good Institute and a Certified Gender Equality Changemaker.
She began this pursuit in the family by embarking on empowering survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) by providing training in financial management, job skills, and entrepreneurship training.
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Vanessa Ishimwe
Vanessa Ishimwe is the founder and director of Authentic African Works, an initiative that empowers young refugee women by producing and selling leather products and using the profits towards sponsoring girls to finish secondary school. Vanessa also won the Anzisha Price in 2018. She is also a member of the Youth Advisory Committee for the DREAM Project under the World University Services of Canada in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation.
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Camila Olmedo Mendez
Camila is the co-founder of Start Americas Together, an organization that promotes volunteering in Latin America, and the founder of El Agua es Oro, an initiative that works to transform the narrative around water access. Her work is mainly based in Bolivia. Camila brings a very complete and inspiring educational background, having studied in the United States, Spain, and France, and now living and working in Mexico City.
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Aisha Abdullahi Bubah
Aisha is a certified psychologist, co-founder and Executive Director of The Sunshine Series & Idimma Health Initiative, a leading hybrid mental health organization based in Nigeria. Her expertise and areas of focus involve helping clients in therapy to address life and mental health issues. She is also a fellow of the Mandela Washington Fellowship and Echoing Green.
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Erioluwa Adeyinka
Erioluwa Adeyinka is the co-founder and fundraising coordinator at YouthxYouth, a global learning community that supports young people in transforming their educational systems. They also provide youth with the access, tools, skills, and resources they need to contribute to their societies positively. Erioluwa is also an Ashoka Young Changemaker and a fellow of the Barrack Obama/USAID Young Africa Leaders Initiative, among others.