Meet our Global Partners!
Chilufya Simwanza
Founder of Zatu Foundation
Chilufya Simwanza is a law student at the University of Zambia. She is 22 years old and is the second born in a family of three. Chilufya is passionate about creating social impact and is the Founder of a non-profit organization called Zatu foundation, which she runs with the help of friends and family. Her main focus is on ensuring that children have access to education and at least one meal a day. She is currently running a community school with over 150 underprivileged students to whom she provides free education and at least one meal a day when they attend school. Furthermore, she is running a building project in efforts to build a bigger school which will accommodate more children.
Eddie Mwale
CEO of EDEL Communications Company
Eddie Mwale was born on 24th March 1995, a Friday. He is the second born of 4 children. He is currently studying at the University of Zambia in the school of Law where he is in his final year. He also is the CEO and proprietor of EDEL Communications Company. He is also a human and civil rights activist and a social entrepreneur.
Lilian Nakigozi
Lilian Nakigozi is a 26 year old high-level experienced young leader and social entrepreneur with over 6 years’ experience in the agribusiness space. Lilian is an analytical decision-maker with extensive experience in sustainable development, market research and business planning. Currently, she is the Founder & CEO of Women Smiles Uganda an organization that combines passion, innovation and entrepreneurship to make a world a better place for women, children and youth. She is passionate about women empowerment, food security and youth entrepreneurship. Her entire life, Lilian has dedicated her knowledge, passion and skills to provide training in sustainable vertical farming concepts to women and youth living in underserved communities of Uganda especially those in urban slums who struggle to access land for agriculture which helps to build their capacity to use the available resources to sustain themselves and use the limited spaces to grow crops hence enhancing their food security. This has earned her recognition and endorsement by several international organizations which include Obama Foundation, Ygap, Tony Elumelu Foundation, Westerwelle Foundation, Takeda Foundation, The French Embassy in Uganda and many others.
Nanje Nobaho
Humanitarian Program
Nanje Nobaho was founded on 23 June 2016 in Bujumbura, Burundi by Ruremesha Hugues-Hardy as an effort to improve living conditions of children who lived on begging in streets and had given up on going to school because of familial poverty situation and many of them have been sent by their mothers which is a shame. So, the program was initially started in order to put an end to that awful habit of poor single mothers or widows who encouraged their children to lead a street life so they can contribute to the family revenue and thus survive on a daily basis; reason why Nanje Nobaho works with these single mothers or widows in order to help their children.
Sixty children from fifteen families of single mothers or widows have been taken back to school and been fed too. Since September 2017, Nanje Nobaho has distributed to those children educational supplies (school uniforms, copybooks, pens, etc) and paid for their school fees.
As far as their mothers are involved, the "woman empowerment" part has not been left behind. In February 2018, Nanje Nobaho gave small capitals to responsible single mothers to start up small-income generating activities.
Nanje Nobaho has worked with Rotaract Inyenyeri-BURUNDI which is a member of Rotary International, Together for a Great Burundi (TGB) which is a community of Burundian student living in China, and last but not least Unicef-Burundi in order to provide to all the needs that may be necessary for the good of children under its care.
As a humanitarian aid-program operating in an educational domain of children living in developing countries, Nanje Nobaho hopes to reduce the continuation of this type of street children issue and provide a lasting solution to that problem with Compass Vision.