YouMeWe Foundation’s founder awarded Governor General’s Sovereign’s Medal for Volunteers

January 30, 2020, Suzanne F. Stevens receives the Sovereign’s Medal for Volunteers awarded by the Governor General of Canada, Canada’s highest volunteer honour, for her dedication to amplifying the voices of African women.

Ruth Douglas giving Suzanne F. Stevens Sovereign's Medal

Suzanne founded the YouMeWe Foundation in 2007 and raised funds for 26 tertiary education scholarships for women …

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First Foundation Recipient Creates a Massive Ripple Effect!

When I returned to Kenya 2011, Mary Ogalo was heading up the Global Bag Project in Nairobi. Global Bag Project is a US based non-profit social enterprise that donates the proceeds from the sales of reusable shopping bags in the developed world to microcredit ventures in the emerging world.

Mary …

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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia – Africa Rising? Really?

We still wonder why educating girls in the developing world is such an important topic… well because not enough is being done about it!

As put by one of two female Presidents in Africa- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is the president of Liberia and a Nobel Peace Prize winner.

“It is …

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