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Building Africa’s Scientific Future: Inside the African STARS Fellowship with CARE at IPD and in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation.
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Building Africa’s Scientific Future: Inside the African STARS Fellowship
YouTube video by CERI & KRISP Centre Epidemic Response & Innovation
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November 20, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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Tomorrow, 12:30-14:00, we are hosting a OPEN Seminar on how to raise and scale funding in Africa. This event features a VC who invests in innovation and a Director of Impact Investments at ELMA Philanthropies.
All welcome: t.ly/BuQwL
#YoungAfricaWorks #AfricanSTARSFellows #Science #Funding #Africa
October 22, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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How do start one of the most advanced scientific fellowships in Africa??? By drumming together with 20 fellows from 16 African countries selected from over 3,000 applicants! We drum and have fun before the hard work starts! #YoungAfricaWorks #AfricanSTARSFellowship
August 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Introducing a STAR Fellow! Please let me introduce to you Edna Hounsa, who will of a 1 year fellowship in our program at Institut Pasteur de Dakar that has been producing vaccines for close to 100 years in Africa! So proud of Edna House. #YoungAfricaWorks #AfricanSTARSFellowship
August 7, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Please let me introduce Dr. Farida Ouedraogo, an African STARS Fellow of the advancing translational training (ATT) programme. You will inspire many others in Africa to become both clinician scientists and innovators! #YoungAfricaWorks #AfricanSTARSfellows
August 7, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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Fish cookie anyone? 🐟

By perfecting a cookie recipe fortified 💪 with fish protein, entrepreneur Frank Thoya is tackling malnutrition among snack-loving children in Kenya. 🍪🍪🍪

Read his success story: www.farmafrica.org/story/fishco...
#YISA #foodsecurity #protein #YoungAfricaWorks
Fish cookies: an unexpectedly tasty treat - Farm Africa
By perfecting a cookie recipe fortified with fish protein, entrepreneur Frank Thoya is tackling malnutrition among children in Kenya. With support from the YISA programme, led by Farm Africa in partne...
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May 12, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Equity Bank Uganda Showcases How Its Unsecured Loans Have Helped Youths Create Jobs at the #YoungAfricashtag/YoungAfricaWorks" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#YoungAfricaWorks Expo

Equity Bank Uganda has once again demonstrated its position as the leading banking institution for Ugandans at the MasterCard Foundation's #YoungAfrica Works Dialogue, which took place…
Equity Bank Uganda Showcases How Its Unsecured Loans Have Helped Youths Create Jobs at the #YoungAfricaWorks Expo
Equity Bank Uganda has once again demonstrated its position as the leading banking institution for Ugandans at the MasterCard Foundation's #YoungAfrica Works Dialogue, which took place at the Kampala Serena Hotel from February 18th-19th, 2025. This event aimed to create a platform for partners to exchange solutions and highlight innovations for the increasing youth workforce in Uganda. As one of the participants in the #YoungAfricaWorks initiative, Equity Bank illustrated its efforts to tackle the challenge of limited access to financing by offering unsecured and adaptable loans, along with financial literacy training targeted at youth, women, and refugees.
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February 19, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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GOOD NEWS: We Can Work Academy celebrates 500+ graduates!

Our programme with @mastercardfdn.bsky.social is reshaping perceptions and supporting young people with disabilities find meaningful employment.

For more #GoodNews2024, visit bit.ly/4giYeVG
#WeCanWork #YoungAfricaWorks
Two women, participants of a core life skills training session, smiling and laughing. They are seated at a table. © Denis Hombe / Light for the World
December 20, 2024 at 8:02 AM
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Through the #WeCanWork programme, Light for the World provides advisory services and user-friendly tools to support #YoungAfricaWorks Partners in achieving their #DisabilityInclusion goals meaningfully.
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November 17, 2023 at 10:21 AM
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As part of #WeCanWork, the partners underwent disability awareness training on the principles of disability-inclusive programming and how #YoungAfricaWorks partners can intentionally integrate #disability inclusion into their interventions and organisational systems and processes.
November 17, 2023 at 10:19 AM
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Light for the World, in partnership with UDPK, spearheaded the co-creation forum to foster a shared understanding of disability inclusion and disability-inclusive programming for the Mastercard Foundation’s #YoungAfricaWorks partners.

A thread🧵#WeCanWork
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November 17, 2023 at 10:18 AM