Maritha Osekre-Amey is a social entrepreneur. During her undergraduate agriculturist studies, she worked closely with the farming communities in Sri Lanka. She discovered that supporting people was more rewarding as you learned about their challenges and found solutions together that contributed to positively and directly impacting their livelihoods and communities. This rich experience and exposure at an early stage of her career path convinced her that her focus and energy should be dedicated to serving communities in Sri Lanka.

Vahid Suljic is the founder of Campus and Student Life in Qatar, a powerhouse of reliable educational information and impactful content that nurtures Qatar's student community with a suite of services and firsthand testimonials from both current and past students.

Kafayat OYEWO-OYELERE, is the co-founder of the Golden Gleams Empowerment Foundation, a not-for-profit organization ensuring quality education, opportunities and economic empowerment of women and girls in Ogun State, Nigeria, by offering continuous education and promoting climate change initiatives with the launch of a tree planting practice.

Kafayat OYEWO-OYELERE explained the reason for her motto "Humanity first". Her mission is to help women and girls have access to equal opportunities for continuous learning and a path to economic empowerment and self-reliance through education.

ProfDoc Rasheedat Adetoun Oke-Olaniyan is the founder of Dastia Academy, an educational center with the mission of helping children learn academics and integrate a holistic approach to life. The students are groomed to be multilingual and have a strong vision that learning is a lifelong process that needs grooming at an early stage. We catch them young from the cradle.

Smita Suchde Gruetter is the founder of HEMLATA. HEMLATA is empowering young women to gain financial independence, to lead lives of dignity and self-worth by accessing tertiary-quality education. HEMLATA is promoting gender equality and investing in young women’s socio-economic development and shaping actively their own future.

HEMLATA Scholars receive a holistic impact scholarship that includes funding for quality education at accredited universities along with mentorship, skills development and career support, all designed to lead to economic development.

HEMLATA alumni have provided proof of concept and broken inter-generational cycles of poverty within a single generation. They are now not just supporting themselves by uplifting other young women in the program, but also contributing to their families and communities.

Marian Thushari Fernando is a social entrepreneur. During her undergraduate agriculturist studies, she worked closely with the farming communities in Sri Lanka. She discovered that supporting people was more rewarding as you learned about their challenges and found solutions together that contributed to positively and directly impacting their livelihoods and communities. This rich experience and exposure at an early stage of her career path convinced her that her focus and energy should be dedicated to serving communities in Sri Lanka.

Pooja Saxena is the Chief Executive Officer of Innovoidea, India. Her mission is to build capacity resilience programs for disaster preparedness by training local communities on equipment and safety gear.

Raimi Olaide Basirat is the founder of Plastic Entrepreneurship Ventures (PEV), a social enterprise committed to reinventing, recreating and reengineering plastic waste in Nigeria. Her mission is to educate the next generation by sharing the social and economic opportunities of using plastic waste as a resource material.

Dr. Lahiru Kodituwakku is part of the core team at Little Food Cabinet Movement of Resilience RTC, a grassroots, crowdsourced solution to cater to immediate and local needs amidst the current economic crisis and cascading effects of COVID-19 pandemic in Sri Lanka. The mission of the Little Food Cabinet Movement is to help feed and nourish the needy members of the community while promoting its resilience and sustainability.

Today, OneMillionSparks is celebrating Sascha NICK, a serial entrepreneur, a scientist, a professor and a true professional. Sascha will be joining the headline keynote speakers at the 10th Edition of GoodFestival on the 11th of October at The Olympic Museum, Lausanne. The topic of his speech is “Female leadership, male leadership, or good leadership?”

“When I was five years old my parents lived in India for one year in Varanasi, which is a very intense place. My memories as a child start from India. I don’t remember my life before, so it really had an impact on me

After a corporate career, Melissa Matteucci initiated International Women Association in Cambodia. IWA Kep empowers women by offering them training and a space to express their creativity by recycling plastic bags into handicrafts.

"Through HOBI we empower women to offer better chances to newborn babies and their mothers. And it is innovative, creative and fun!"

Laurence de Bure, a French born immigrant,brought an agricultural background from farm life in the Pyrenees Mountains in southern France to Tucson Arizona. Her appetite to learn of the tribal life near her new surroundings led her to discover traditional indigenous water harvesting techniques. 

How would you encourage youth entrepreneurship while reaching for a sustainable future? Directly impacting 15,000 students, indirectly 60,000 and saving 24 kilotons of CO2 emissions, it is safe to say that LEDsafari has a solution. 

Based and operating in Geneva by eight hopeful young adults, the Essaim d’Accueil team works tirelessly towards the social inclusion of asylum seekers. As they profoundly word it, “Many who are called ‘migrants’ are not treated as individuals, but as part of a faceless mass.