Spotlight on Jakub at Mest: Developing Africa’s Pipeline of Tech Entrepreneurs
MEST is a non-profit youth training program and incubator based in Ghana focused on building a pipeline of entrepreneurs and new businesses ...
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Bloom Impact: A mobile marketplace of financial services for entrepreneurs
Ghana-based financial tech venture Bloom Impact is helping micro, small and medium sized enterprises (MSMEs) access financial services throu...
Spotlight on Elizabeth & Ruth: Building Numida’s connections with entrepreneurs
Elizabeth and Ruth helped Numida improve how entrepreneurs interact with the mobile application. Numida noticed that retaining its users was...
Financing a Future Without Poverty
Traditional international aid models based on simple transfers of wealth or knowledge aren’t enough to solve the persistent problems of po...
Making Change Happen through EWB’s Day of Action!
Every year, EWB invites 60-70 young leaders to Ottawa for workshops and a Day of Action. The 3-day event builds participants’ understandin...
Spotlight on Erin Flanagan: Finding her voice at EWB
Erin credits much of what it took to reach her current role as Director of Policy at the Office of the Minister of Natural Resources Canada...
Spotlight on Sasha Caldera: EWB volunteer to national campaign leader
After nearly a decade at EWB, Sasha joined the team at Canadians for Tax Fairness this past fall. Sasha was a part of EWB since 2008, taking...
Empowering Africa’s young leaders to create change
Prince Adu Appiah founded 1 Billion Africa, a Ghanaian non-profit organization that works to help eradicate poverty in Africa by turning pro...
Amplifying Community Voices with Stephannie Veenbaas and Alain Chelala
EWB’s Day of Action and #BeAdVENTUROUS campaign were meaningful leadership moments for young people. Through these activities, the next ge...