Gia Whitehead

Gia Whitehead is the Sustainability Director/Founder of TSiBA Education, Gia was recognized as one of South Africa’s 100 Brightest Young Minds in 2002. Gia was also awarded Top Women Entrepreneur of the Year 2012 (Topco Media).

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Lydia Muso Lesotho Child Counciling Unit

Lydia Muso

Founder & Director, Lesotho Child Counseling Unit, Lesotho. An orphanage that she founded in 2001 to provide a temporary and safe home for the rehabilitative care of sexually, physically, and emotionally abused children.

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sheila freemantle tintsaba

Sheila Freemantle

In loving memory - Founder & Managing Director Tintsaba, Master Weavers in Sisal. Sheila Freemantle left us on October 29, 2012. Sheila impacted so many lives. Watch, Listen, Read, her inspiring words of wisdom of how to change the lives of thousands with love. Help her legacy live!

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Maria Sarungi Tsehai Compass Communications

Maria Sarungi Tsehai

Founder & Director of Production, Compass Communication Company Ltd, Tanzanian public broadcaster, producer of Miss Universe Tanzania beauty pageant; founding member Tanzania Independent Producers (TAIPA). Recipient of the prestigious Commonwealth Vision Awards (UK).

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Philippa Reiss Thorne | Philippa Thorne | gone rural | wisdom exchange tv

Philippa Reiss Thorne

Managing Director, Gone Rural, Swaziland. Impacting hundreds of rural women by creating jobs through high-quality hand-crafts. During Philippa's tenure, she has doubled business turnover, quadrupled artisan incomes, and fostered a positive economic impact on Swaziland’s rural communities by enabling women to earn money while maintaining their customary lifestyle.

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Sara Abera of Muya Ethiopia PLC

Sara Abera

Fashion designer and founder of Muya Ethiopia P.L.C. Sara has created hundreds of community jobs through export and innovation. Muya won a first place Millennium Award for woman exporters in the handloom sub-sector.

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Meaza Ashenafi guest on wisdom exchange tv

Meaza Ashenafi

Chairperson Enat Bank, Lawyer & Women Activist in Ethiopia. Meaza contributed to the inclusion of women and children’s rights provisions in the 1995 Constitution of Ethiopia. She was identified as one of the five prominent women’s rights activists worldwide.

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