Keeping Up with the Kohorts: 2020

Joining the Anzisha Prize is just a part of these Very Young Entrepreneurs journey, here's what the 2020 fellows have been up to.

2020

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2020

Abdelouahab Toukkart

Abdelouahab Toukkart developed his innate strong entrepreneurial skillset from his father. Abdelouahab left university and spent most of his teenage years helping his father while taking up part-time students.

Abdul Dumbuya

Concerned Generation Network is a social enterprise geared towards the sustainable production, and packaging of ginger into ginger consumables. The business model dedicates 25% of revenue generated from the sale of ginger powder to supporting community schools and educational projects.

Adjeiwaa Nyamekye

Adjeiwaa is the youngest of the Anzisha 2020 cohort. She grew up riddled with the pain of losing 3 family members including her mom, to Malaria. Determined to reduce the spread of malaria, so that other's don't have to face the same grief as she did, she started the Mosquito trapping + Emergency LED light Bulb initiative.

Alaa Moatamed

At an early age, Alaa had a passion for business. In 2016, she participated in Eyouth where she co-founded and headed her first project "Fettrah"-a project aimed at teaching different skills to people with mental disabilities. Alaa continued to mix her passion for business with community engagement to later co-found, Presto.

Aseitu Olivia Kipo

Aseitu describes herself as a passionate and resilient emerging community developer and an agripreneur. Growing up in a rural community in Ghana, Aseitu witnessed the majority of people in her community malnourished. Consequently, she relentlessly sought ways of supporting the people of her community with healthy foods whilst creating employment. This led to the start of her entrepreneurial journey and the birth of Kobaa-Ok-Enterprises.

Benjamin Mushayija Gisa

When Benjamin was 16, his mother developed multiple chronic illnesses, one of which being diabetes. His mother required a change in diet to products such as honey. Apart from these products being expensive and unaffordable, it was also hard to find natural ones, especially pure honey. This motivated Benjamin to find a way to help his mother and many other people in his community to get pure honey.