Nzometiah Nervis Tetsop is a 23-year-old tech innovator and community builder from Cameroon.

He utilizes technology to lead positive change in his community and has impacted almost 3,000 students through workshops and seminars on career orientation and opportunities in information technology.

He founded NERVTEK with the vision to create a tech ecosystem for innovation and boosting technological advancement. The Nervtek Community currently has 2,000+ young leaders.

He organized an innovation challenge where 20,000 young tech entrepreneurs and innovators all over the nation designed solutions for sectors like Transport, Education, Agriculture, Fintech, Health, etc.

Several useful innovations were submitted and the top three winners each got a cash prize of $2,000. Necessitated by the COVID lockdown, Nervis and his team designed various solutions ranging from a hands-free wash basin, to an Automatic Water dispenser and robot sprayer.

Anna Maneno Michael Milla is a dynamic and resolute 20-year-old human rights activist from South Sudan.

Notably, she pioneered Mending Hearts Initiative South Sudan (MHISS) that raised $10,000 for 100 vulnerable families.

Her team distributed food and other essentials to over 2,000 orphanages and indigent families, as well as small business owners whose livelihood was affected by lockdown periods. She organized Farmers Support Program, a campaign that raised $2,500 to buy tools for 50 farmers.

And she sourced for funds for a borehole project in Lologo Community, providing water for 1,500+ residents. Anna also raised $5,000 to help build a house for an elderly woman whose wooden shelter collapsed, and provided 30 bags of cement to repair an orphanage’s fence .

This ardent change agent conducted several educational and mentorship campaigns targeting children, especially adolescent girls in settlement camps, and created awareness to mitigate teenage pregnancy and help them return to school. She has also facilitated trainings for women and students on peace processes, women empowerment, and reproductive health.

César Aguidi is a 23-year-old Togolese who is vibrant, self-driven, inspiring and passionate about nation-building.

He created ‘The Influence’, an organization aimed at youth leadership development; conferences held by the organization have reached 5,000+ youth in Togo and West Africa. He’s also organized success motivations projects in Ghana and Togo, impacting thousands of students.

An Ambassador of Peace, César organized PEACE FOR TOGO conference, where he taught over 200 young leaders about civic values and how to prevent chaos during elections. Also, he organized conferences for 2,000+ students who were enlightened on their role in nation building.

Again, he organized an entrepreneurship program for over 4,200 students, to help them discover careers linked to their training.

César also initiated a music course for 18 students at the University of Lomé. On Africa Day, César partnered with Togolese National Television to broadcast a program motivating youths to solve challenges in their communities, reaching 15,000,000+ people in Togo. In celebration of International Women's Day, he held a conference titled "Female Leadership for an Equal Future” to instill leadership values in over 200 young girls.

Destiny Funtsani Zulu is a 21-year-old visionary young leader from Zambia and founder of ‘Light of the World’ organization.

Sponsoring orphanages and helping orphans get back to school with scholarships and the provision of school supplies underscores Destiny’s passion for lifting others up. He has helped over 100 orphans and secured up to tertiary level scholarship for 69 candidates. Destiny further raises funds to sponsor tuition for 500 pupils.

Destiny impacted over 10,000 young people with fashion design workshops for disabled youth, personal hygiene campaigns to help underprivileged girls, tutorials and provision of textbooks for literacy and remedial classes, drug abuse sensitization and rehabilitation campaigns, skills development courses for street kids, and many more.

Hillary Nakitare is a young man from Kenya who is full of passion and purpose. The 23-year-old has partnered with global corporation to provide ‘dignity kits’ to schools girls and organize personal hygiene awareness programs in the slums of Kenya.

In his activism for environmental conservation, he acquired a 2-acre land for planting tree seedlings to keep Kenya breathing. In partnership with the Ministry of Land and Forest, over 600,000 seedlings have been planted across Kenya. This project also provided employment for five families.

Working with the Ankara Organization, he provided food, medical services, and environmental sanitation to those displaced by heavy rains in Eastleigh, impacting more than 1,000 families. He also organizes weekly food drives in Mathare and Mukuru where hundreds of kids get free meals . Through the program, over 200,000 families have been impacted. He has rescued 100 children from the streets of Nairobi, and he’s rehabilitating them for the society.

Manzi Guevara is a 23-year-old, self-driven youth leader from Rwanda with a strong passion for impacting lives. Moved by the plight of many in Rwanda, he established Global Love Empowerment.

He worked with community leaders to sponsor medical insurance for 1060 families, and granted 3000+ beneficiaries free healthcare for a year. Guevara created a Digital Health Service that helps hospitals manage blood donation processes and source for donors; over 1,000 liters of blood was donated in the first month and the solution has been adopted by 100 hospitals in Rwanda, Malawi, and Kenya.

Following his outstanding initiatives, Guevara is a role model to other young people. He inspires many through radio programs where he challenges them to act for the greater good. Guevara and his team organized 13 youth development programs on mind management and productive self-expression. Over 4,800 youths benefited from and 3,500 of them received free copies of Christian materials.

He leads a team of 15 volunteers to meet over 300 students whom they mentor weekly. He also procures food items, toys, toiletries, and school equipment for care centers, to enrich learning for

Isaac Bitrus Nggida is a 23-year-old social activist from Nigeria.

He embarked on projects to ameliorate the anguish caused by insurgents in communities across Plateau State.

Isaac partnered with others to sensitize 200 leaders from 13 communities on peaceful co-existence following attacks by gunmen.

In the aftermath of the End SARS Protests, Isaac’s team helped renovate a Police Station in his community. He also partnered with CYPA Africa and the Plateau State Government to rebuild the Dogo Nahawa Community, which was destroyed by insurgents.

The project involves building a community library and Tech Hub for over 5,000 youths. His team also built four new toilets for the community clinic. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Isaac partnered with Kingdom Kids Klub to help inner-city children by organizing classes and providing kids with lunch; 930 children in 15 communities benefited from this campaign.

When the lockdown ended, Isaac joined others to organize a Book & Art Festival in Jos, Nigeria.

Deo-Gratias Meyou is a 24-year-old human right activist from Republic of Benin who is committed to the health, social welfare, growth and development of children and youths.

He carried out various youth empowerment programs in 6 high schools and 3 universities across 3 major cities in his country, impacting over 10,000 students with the teaching and free christian materials.

Partnering with PNLP (National Program against Malaria), he organized STOP PALU (STOP MALARIA) campaign in a community with the highest cases of malaria and infant mortality, with 200+ beneficiaries. He worked with Red Cross to organize blood donations campaigns.

He raised awareness on preventive measures for high blood pressure. He set up centers for a faith healing outreach at the CNHU (the largest hospital in Benin Republic) where 80 patients were healed of various ailments.

Emmanuel Gyan Finawah is a 23-year-old young leader and a technology enthusiast from Ghana.

In January 2021, he launched a Back-to-School Campaign that provided cleaning supplies for 100 schools in five districts in the Greater Accra region, impacting about 90,000 students.

He developed “The Science Box” - a learning aid for practical studies with 50 experiments in physics, chemistry, and biology. Emmanuel and his team also developed “The Nsowhe App” a mobile app that provides learning guides to students from Crèche to Senior High School. Over 13,000 children were also reached via video CD versions of the lessons on the app in remote communities.

Emmanuel organized Success Motivation Conferences for over 300,000 high school students in 8 regions across Ghana to inspire them for the next level in their educational development.

23-year-old Prisca Torboal is a courageous and dynamic youth leader from the nation of Chad.

She facilitated an entrepreneurship and skills acquisition program and 40 beneficiaries have started new businesses with investments from philanthropic individuals.

Prisca adopted a primary school where renovated two classrooms, distributed Christian materials to 250 children, and also volunteers as a teacher. She organized two evangelical programs and a concert in her local community and had about 1,100 young attendees, with 300 people converted to Christ.

Sheregularly visits a local orphanage where she mentors and inspires the children through weekly study session that instill the right mindset in the young ones.

She embarked on a missionary trip with her team in the Sud region of Chad, renown for kidnapping and killing pastors.

The team reached 995 people and pioneered a Teens Church that is thriving. In that same city, she organized a crusade with 300 participants. There were no kidnap incidents.