In today’s Volunteer Spotlight – we feature our Head of Budgeting at Ambitious.Global - Elli Safari.

In today’s Volunteer Spotlight – we feature our Team Lead at Ambitious.Liberia - Prince Fully, a young, ambitious, driven and talented geologist from Liberia.

Two months ago, I travelled to the heart of Africa to teach the first Lean Six Sigma (LSS) Green Belt course at the University of Kigali (Rwanda) as part of our Complex Problem-Solving Project, run in conjunction with Ambitious.Africa and ESTIEM.

In today’s Volunteer Spotlight – we feature our Grants Manager - Kristian Jakobsson, a young, self-motivated and hardworking university student from Finland.

In today’s Volunteer Spotlight – we feature our former Head of Community and HR - Miss. Eustacia Morris, a young, brilliant and ambitious changemaker from South Africa (originally from Zimbabwe).

Born and raised in Ethiopia, Eden is a 25-year-old social entrepreneur, digital innovator and human rights activist. As a proud non-conformist and global citizen, she is passionate about leveraging innovation, diversity and leadership to create sustainable solutions. Her professional experience spans across social innovation, activism, economic development, entrepreneurship and education ventures in Africa, India and the Nordics.

By Alexander Gröning  We are creating a Ambitious.Africa Online Platform where the community can gather in one place to work and collaborate towards our goals. As a community, we can share our experiences, support and guide each other. The online platform provides a unique opportunity to network between countries, areas of interest and partners. By having everything centralized we can work in unison and reach new heights.

Emmaculate is a young, passionate, and innovative entrepreneur in agriculture. She is the CEO and Founder of Emmat AgroFarm Limited, an agribusiness investing in agriculture and innovation with the aim of fighting youth unemployment, hunger, and poverty through various collaborations and partnerships with various stakeholders.

By Tiia Madekivi & Maija Luukka - In early March, our Ambitious Africa Team organized the first-ever Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Course at the University of Kigali. The course was coordinated by the Ambitious Africa team, together with European Students of Industrial Engineering and Management, ESTIEM, and supported by two French Universities. Let’s hear one of the Trainers, Maija Luukka´s insights about this extraordinary course:

By Tiia Madekivi - Ambitious.Africa is collaborating with PBL-BioAfrica and ESGROW to find opportunities for an open university concept in Zambia that focuses primarily on Agro-entrepreneurship. The project contributes to the HEI-ICI program’s long-term impact by strengthening the capacity of bioeconomy HEIs to provide pedagogically innovative, work-life relevant, and accessible higher education for large student numbers in Sub-Saharan Africa.

By Okhela Ntsamai - An inside look into the efforts of South Africans to show solidarity and community spirit in the aftermath of civil unrest.

For a long time, remittances and tourism have been the areas where the diaspora has proven to have a critical impact in Africa. These are the most recognizable ways in which the diaspora relates to Africa. They are not comparable to the experience of day-to-day living in Africa, but as a member of the diaspora that once relocated from my ancestral homeland of Kenya four years ago; I know there are additional ways Africans abroad are making an impact in Africa.

By Catherine Kyule