Heroes in Action

Kwame Agbata is leading , Coliba a Ghanaian Plastic Waste Recycling Company, Committed to The Environment. Coliba 2.0 is the fist African Mobile app designed to manage plastic waste across West Africa.

Coliba Recycling seeks to innovatively address the plastic waste pollution in the West Africa region through a franchise model that integrates Coliba Rangers (Waste pickers) into the digital platform that enables homes, institutions and communities start and request recycling services with click of the finger.

(Source: https://coliba.com.gh/)

Bilikiss Adebiyi is a Nigerian entrepreneur who founded the Lagos-based recycling company Wecyclers.

Wecyclers is a for-profit social enterprise that promotes environmental sustainability, socioeconomic development, and community health by providing convenient recycling services in densely populated urban neighborhoods.

Bilikiss and her team built a platform on a fleet of relatively cheap, and locally assembled, cargo bikes called “wecycles” dedicated to pick up recyclable waste from households and deliver the materials to collection, sorting, and packaging hubs located around Lagos. Wecyclers rewards service subscribers with points per kilogram of recycled waste, which they can exchange for essential goods such as food and household items. Read more

(Source: https://www.wecyclers.com/ )

Alhaji Ahmed Siraj Bah, becomes the first ever Sierra Leonean to be part of the UN Young Champion of the earth. He created Rugsal Trading, a company dedicated to tackle the waste crisis in Africa with two solutions. He makes coconut husk briquettes as an alternative for burning coal, to combat deforestation in Sierra Leone.

In addition, He make eco-friendly biodegradable paper bags from banana leaves to tackle plastic pollution. Today Rugsal Trading have produced more than 250,000 eco-friendly bags and more than 120 tons of clean and smokeless briquettes from coconut, saving thousands of our mothers, wives and sisters from health risks by providing them with clean and affordable fuel, while saving more than 15,000 trees. Read more

(Source: https://www.unep.org/ )

What sets Andy Costa apart from other environmental activists and gives him a truly remarkable identity (certainly unique in the world) is his green helmet.

In Côte d'Ivoire, he is well known for advocating for the establishment of cycle paths with the government and institutions. Wherever he is, he raises awareness of change management through his bike trips and his bicycle interviews. This is what he calls “climate diplomacy”. » Thanks to his commitment, there is now a bill on the creation of cycle paths during the construction of road infrastructure. Read More

(Source: https://www.societegenerale.com/fr )

Fatou Sonko is a student in Food Technology at Gaston Berger University in Saint-Louis. She developed the “Patat'innov” project, a sweet potato and cowpea compote enriched with moringa and bissap leaves that are very rich in micronutrients.

This project started from the observation of a paradox. There are major agricultural losses, particularly in the north of the country, and at the same time, we are seeing a lack of micronutrients in many children. So we wanted to reconcile these two issues in a project and that's what gave us "Patat'innov". Read more

(Source: https://www.unicef.org/senegal )

At 79, he has won the bet of planting more than 35,000 baobab trees, this majestic tree from Africa, a witness and at the heart of many myths and legends.

For 54 years he has been planting baobab trees by the thousands each year to fight against the desert. Old El Hadj even transmitted the “baobab virus” to his children, whom he taught how to find the seeds, sow them and take care of the plants.

The baobab is one of the most important trees in Africa for its nutritional, health and cultural virtues. Read more

(Source: https://www.sidwaya.info/ )