Leading social entrepreneurs moving barriers and contributing to 'Everyone A Changemaker' world.
Founded in 2001, Ashoka East Africa is the youngest Africa program serving Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania. With 87 Fellows, we are also one of the smallest Fellowships. But we are growing rapidly. Ashoka East Africa strives to shape a regional, entrepreneurial, and competitive citizen sector, one that allows entrepreneurs to thrive and enables the region's citizens to think and act as Changemakers since 2000. For the past years, we have grown considerably both in terms of numbers of leading social entrepreneurs (Ashoka Fellows) elected and supported and in our greater efforts to build a more conducive environment for change.
CONTRIBUTING TO THE SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
We have contributed to a collaborative ecosystem to search leading social entrepreneurs in the region and nominated them as Ashoka Fellows thus supporting the growth and development of the sector together with partners from other sectors since 2001. We have directly invested resources in fellowship engagements with these Fellows.
BUILDING A DIVERSE ECOSYSTEM
87 Fellows, 15 Changemaker Schools, 50 Youth-Serving Organizations supporting young people to grow self-identifying as changemakers, 4000 young changemakers and 20 youth champions
BUILDING A TEAM OF TEAMS
The team of teams in East Africa includes; Staff, Fellows, Change Leaders from schools and youth-serving organizations, young changemakers, interns, volunteers, youth champions, partners among other allies and friends.
IMPLEMENTING GLOBAL PROGRAMS
Among the programs we have implemented in East Africa include; Globalizer, Youth Venture, Changemaker Schools, Changemaker Bootcamps (AmEx Leadership and Mastercard Foundation’s Future Forward), Making More Health Acceleratro Program and ChangemakerExchange.
DIVERSIFYING OUR FELLOWSHIP NETWORK OF CHANGEMAKERS
Ashoka Fellows cut across different all sectors and come from all the four East Africa countries and about 70 others from across the globe with their work here in East Africa.
Transforming Employability for Social Change in East Africa
Ashoka Youth Years
Ashoka Venture and Fellowship
Staff
Vincent Otieno Odhiambo
Regional Director, Ashoka East Africa
Vincent Otieno Odhiambo
Regional Director, Ashoka East Africa
Santiago Del Giudice
Globalizer Associate
Bryan Chesoli
Making More Health Accelerator, Project Associate

Bryan Chesoli
Making More Health Accelerator, Project Associate
Ruth Soi
Visionary Program Coordinator and Fellow Engagement Lead

Ruth Soi
Visionary Program Coordinator and Fellow Engagement Lead
Arnold Otieno
Monitoring & Evaluation Expert

Arnold Otieno
Monitoring & Evaluation Expert
Chris Rasugu
Finance Lead

Chris Rasugu
Finance Lead
Our partners



American Express
American Express’s vision is to bring to life the American Express value of good corporate citizenship by supporting diverse communities in ways that enhance the company's reputation with employees, customers, merchants, business partners and other stakeholders.

Boehringer Ingelheim
Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) and Ashoka have partnered together in promoting innovative solutions to challenging health problems since 2010. By exploring the intersection of social entrepreneurship, employee talent development, and healthcare networks the teams have co-designed "win-win" solutions to global healthcare challenges. Solutions have come through increasing individuals’ access to healthcare and community health issues, especially underserved populations. Over 5 years, the team has supported 75 Making More Health fellows in 47 countries, launched 3 global open-source competitions finding 800+ health innovations worldwide, and engage 10% of BI's global workforce of 45,000.
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Ashoka East Africa
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