Vienna Hub - Africa Tage 2023

“Connecting People with Passion”

Promoting People with Passion as positive role models, Inspiring others to find and follow their Passion

Vienna Hub - AAfisa

Passion: Writing and rapping to educate, entertain, empower, and represent the voiceless.

Projects: Music for changing refugee lives.

Dream: To support refugee artists all over

- Educate, empower, and entertain refugees

the world to make a good living from their

and host community through music.

arts.

- Nurture and support talented refugee artists to make a good living from their music works

Background: My background is in

and any other things related to music

nurturing and helping youths in Kakuma

knowledge and creativity.

refugee camp to showcase their talents in music and to earn something wherever possible to keep them motivated.

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Vienna Hub - Barnaba

Passion: investing in adult education

Project: TEACH FOR COMMUNITY is a community-based organization that believes in

Dream: to create job opportunities for

aggregative ideas from the community in order to reduce the

adults and provide skills and knowledge

most pressing digital literacy within a refugee and host communities by empowering Women with digital skills,

Background: Founder of TEACH FOR COMMUNITY

English language to enhance sustainable or lasting transformations.

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Vienna Hub - Esther Passion: Teenage mother and children can get equal quality education

Dream: To become a successful Entrepreneur and an international model and to take my daughter to school

Background: Senior High school Graduate in General Art. About me :-) Am Esther Osei Poku 26 years old, a single mother to a beautiful daughter of 5 years with cerebral palsy.

Project: The Learning Street, Accra. Building Social Capital by talking to others, creating education possibilities beyond what is currently available, and spreading more happiness among mothers and toddlers. We are connecting young mothers and their toddlers in Ghana, Kenya, and Austria though Vienna Hub Creative Circles. A weekly update on activity, and plan for the coming week is shared between 4 groups of families, building collective wisdom and sharing ideas and inspiration.

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Vienna Hub - Gladys Passion: Leadership, governance & education

Dream: motivation and inspiration through coaching, training

Project: Ravine Foundation

forums

is a nonprofit humanitarian organization that uplifts human

Background: Mkamburi has over 8 years experience in

dignity through restoration &

leadership & governance through founding and managing

impacting the less fortunate and

Ravine foundation, several projects & other humanitarian

elderly. Causes: Leadership &

causes; which earned her honorary awards and recognition certification as a global ambassador with the UN and other recognized humanitarian international bodies. Her experience

governance, Economic & education, gender,

in managing non profit organization has seen her introduce and implement causes which are reflected from her passion Photo credit -

and dream in helping and giving dignity to the elderly, children, people with disability, youth through initiatives

Vienna Hub - Grace Passion : Orphans, Kids, Jesus, Ministry, Sharing Project: We face a lot of challenges Dream : Being an orphan isn’t a choice but God’s

including hunger, house rent,

plan to prove His mighty through providing and care

medication and education though the

for them using people around them. So my dream is

biggest challenge we have here at

that God uses us to show them love and care.

the orphanage is hunger because kids are sensitive when it comes to

Background: I grew up as a street kid because my

hunger so our project is to get a land

parents died when I was still young and I managed

and on that land we can put on big

to survive on streets for 13 years but We used to

projects like a school a hospital a

spend almost a week without eating, we used to fell

home and a farm then when this

sick when no one can help, so decided to find a

project comes to reality we can get a

way to help them and I came up with an orphanage

home free medication free education

helping needy people now I have 25 orphans, and

and food for these beautiful kids

10 other kids which I support within their families

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Vienna Hub - Hassan Sidibay Passion: Technology, Entrepreneurship

Project: Innovation challenge in Education and

and sport

Entrepreneurship. I would like to continue my studies

Dream: to develop my community

outside Sierra Leone, so that when I graduate from

through entrepreneurship and to

college, I will come back home to help address

become more innovative.

Innovation challenge in Education and how to

Background: Born 2005 in Kailahun

improve the lives of youth through entrepreneurship

District, where the rebels entered in

.Also I have great concerns over the vulnerable rural

March, 1991 from Liberia. It was my

women and children living in the Streets. Through my

home town, and later I was transported

innovative ideas, I fix lights, when there is no

to Freetown, where I entered my

electricity through meter problem, I will amend it and I

primary school and now I'm in Senior

will create self electricity in a home that doesn't have

Secondary school, SSS 2 and next

energy light. My desire is to study abroad and gain

year I will take my public exam.

more skills in technology solutions and Entrepreneurship skills.

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Vienna Hub - Horace

Passion: Trainings and enterpreneurship empowerment

Dream: Owning a community

Project: ViFa computer training Center. Adult

center fully equipped with

and youth education on IT related

computers and free WiFi for

fields,coding and enterpreneurship by

learning and trainings .

equipping ViFa CTC in mabinju village within siaya county region

Background: Kenya,study in Kisumu, founder of Victoria farmers organisation ( ViFaO) Photo credit -

Vienna Hub - Justin

Passion: Nature conservation, community work, education, youth

Project: Environmentally friendly beekeeping

empowerment.

project to economically empower rural communities and protect elephants in Tanzania.

Dream: Rights and welfare of domestic and wild animals and nature in general.

Climate mitigation measures for the Maasai community in rural Tanzania.

Background: I’m a conservation enthusiast, working with communities to find solutions to the hardest questions they come across.

The project involves the installation of beehives along the farms to protect crops from elephant raids.

The project aims to reduce human-elephant conflicts while providing economic opportunity for the community through crop protection and honey production.

Every donation will help protect elephants and provide income to poor households in rural Tanzania.

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Vienna Hub - Nigel Passion:- People, internet,

Project:- Learning Spaces

Education, English, Passion Goal - Setting up sustainable Learning Spaces by Dream:- a network of learning

31.March.2023 at 4 partner projects:-

spaces in 527 cities, small space for 12 people with internet

Tinap4development, Freetown, Sierra Leone

and art, 12 people per hour, 144 per day. Half the time is kids,

Ssala - Kampala, Uganda

with kids books, learning from books

Innovation School, Nakivale, Uganda

Background:- Sales and

PDRI , Kakuma, Kenya

Marketing, English training, Project management,

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Vienna Hub - Rachael Passion:- Health and Women led Change

Project:- Live Healthy Initiatives, a Kenyan

Dream:- a community where every person has access to

NGO, as founder and chief executive

universal health coverage & leadership facilitation

officer. LHI supports under-served

programs to support women change makers

communities across Kenya to sustainably

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meet their water, sanitation, hygiene

Community Health and Development with more than 10

(WASH) and other health needs. LHI

years’ experience in diverse areas of Public health,

designs interventions that resonate with

Sanitation Marketing, Education, gender mainstreaming,

the heart and soul of the communities that

women and girl child empowerment, business

we serve; their perceptions, motivations

development, Product Design and Development and

and needs. Rachael is also the brain

market linkage. She was involved in the design and

behind KERRY WASH Innovation, which

development of the Kenya Menstrual Hygiene Policy

is involved in the production and

(2019) and menstrual hygiene guide book for teachers,

distribution of dignity kits with reusable

and is the Executive Director and Co-founder of

menstrual products such as pads, panties,

Centrumberliner Medical Center.

menstrual cups and soap.

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Vienna Hub - Samuel Passion: Youth, Education, Career, Food, Farming Dream: That YOUEE shall operate in communities all over the Republic of Ghana and spread outside of Ghana.

Background: I fled to Ghana as a Refugee from Liberia after the last civil war in 2003. I was able to aquire a skill in ICT and managed to set up my own small business in the Refugee camp for a period of time. In 2020 I got moved with a passion where I could see so many youths who could really want to learn and get a career so I decided to transform my business center into an ICT hub by the name YOUEE.

Project: YOUEE To provide ICT skills such as Graphic Designing, Computer Programming, Networking, Hardware, Digital Marketing, life skills, etc. for self-reliance. To provide ICT career guidance and counseling to our beneficiaries. To assist teenage girls and single mothers in our communities of operations with sustainability such as food rations, used clothing, sanitary pads, etc. To conduct periodic healthcare workshops to educate and inform our beneficiaries about healthy living. To conduct intensive Religious moral education with the aim of building the morale and character of our cherished beneficiaries. Improving our ages parents with their gardener's work as their source of income.

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Vienna Hub - Seth Passion: Empower and educate Refugees living with disabilities in Kakuma.

Dream: To use the power of education to transform and empower with life and digital Skills to every refugee living with disability to become self-reliant.

Background: I am a Changemaker, and refugee advocate since 2019, I use to work harder to help my fellow Refugees with skills I have in entrepreneurship and other life/digital Skills. .

Project: The Discover, In Kakuma we have more than 12,000 refugees living with physical disabilities according to our survey report, who are in need of Quality education to promote their Well-being and their healthy, we are using SDG4 (Quality Education) and digital Skills in the life of Refugees living with disability in order to thrive in the world, reach their full potential and become self-reliant.

We generate solution that makes difference through the trainings. Courses that we provide and promote dignity and worth for them, We provide the following Courses: 1.Computer skills, 2.Entrepreneurship Skills, 3.Tailoring, 4.English language, 5.Changemaker Course, 6.Skills in Hair Planting.

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Vienna Hub - Wilmot Passion : Advocating for vulnerable children, Media

Dream : Settled home and status in Ghana Project: SMART GOAL: To Background: Liberian media practitioner based in Buduburam Refugee camp, two certificates in Local Fundraising and Mobilizing Support from the Change The Game Academy / NCOI University of Applied Sciences Holland. Has been advocating for the most vulnerable children in Buduburam since 2010. His advocacy has attracted support for food and to put

raise a monthly budget of $4000 USD through 2023 to feed protracted and stranded Liberian Refugee elderly men, women and teenage mothers who can not afford daily meal.

some of these kids in school. During the peak of covid he was also advocating for most vulnerable elderly men, women and teenage mothers in the Camp.

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Vienna Hub - Mark Ndayizeye Passion: Child Orphans, Kids, Youths, women group set up small Business Dream: To prepare people with powerful skills to set up small Businesses

Project: Nonprofit organization called unity

initiative for refugees (UIR) to empower children, youth & adults for education at kakuma refugee camp in kenya.

Background: UIR in kakuma refugee camp in Kenya. Established 2019, we serve .the

SMART GOAL:

Refugees from 18 Nationationalities. It is

Within 5 years to set up Training for Refugees in

the place where there is little rain, dry

Kakuma camp in Kenya between 12- 35 years old

session, sunhot every day. Refugees are

on English, Digital, Permaculture skills - Theory and

suffering sometimes shortages free education, free medical, job opportunity,

practically. Within 6 month I will have a class of 400

good education. We offer Training

Learners within 5 classrooms each with 80

opportunity, skills, Mentorship training, food

Learners and build my relationship by the world of

and Livelihood projects.

mouth and friendship with community Leaders.

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