Keeping Up with the Kohorts: 2016

Joining the Anzisha Prize is just a part of these Very Young Entrepreneurs journey, here's what the 2016 fellows have been up to.

2016

Meet our Finalists: Bennedict Kusi Ampofo | Anzisha Prize Fellowship

Meet our Finalists: Aly Abdelazem | Anzisha Prize Fellowship

Meet our Finalists: Asha Abbas Kombo | Anzisha Prize Fellowship

Meet our Finalists: Andrew Ddembe | Anzisha Prize Fellowship

Meet our Finalists: N’guessan Koffi Jacques Olivier | Anzisha Prize Fellowship

Meet our Finalists: Issam Darui | Anzisha Prize Fellowship

Meet our Finalists: Faustino Lizio Moniz Quissico | Anzisha Prize Fellowship

Meet our Finalists: Heritiana Fabien Randriamananatahina | Anzisha Prize Fellowship

Meet our Finalists: Ifrah Arab | Anzisha Prize Fellowship

Meet our Finalists: Chamsiya Lamine | Anzisha Prize Fellowship

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2016

Cote d'Ivoire

N’guessan Koffi Jacques Olivier

Founder of The Yaletite Entrepreneurship Group CI, an agricultural group with the aim of producing and selling food crops for profit, locating subsidies for students with disabilities, and mobilizing youth for agricultural employment.

Egypt

Aly Abdelazam

20 year old Aly is founder of Teens Club, a youth empowerment organization. Teens Club provides teenagers with a platform to develop themselves professionally by linking them up with experts, improving their skillsets, and providing a safe space for the expression of opinions and talents.

Madagascar

Heritiaina Randriamananatahina

Founded FIOMBONANA, an agro-processing enterprise that manufactures dairy products and confectioneries using only Madagascan raw materials, employing farmers and providing local job opportunities.

Kenya

Ifrah Arab

Founder and C.E.O of Supermom, a venture that aims to close market gap for last-mile distribution to low-income individuals by empowering and enabling women in communities to create a door-to-door distribution network in order to improve livelihoods.

Ghana

Benedict Kusi Ampofo

Project KIRIKU, a demonstration farm, is designed to create sustainable agricultural communities to minimize poverty by providing requisite skills, knowledge, and innovative technology, helping participating farmers and youth improve their agricultural yield through practice based learning.

Uganda

Andrew Ddembe

Andrew Ddembe is the Founder for Heart for the hunt. He is a serial entrepreneur who manages a seasonality of businesses in Textile making, Restaurants, and Coffee production.