Before Tuwindi existed, Mali's anti-corruption oversight body had almost no data.

Founder and CEO Richard Chivaka built Spark Health Africa around a belief formed by years of witnessing.

"The assumption we sometimes make is that young people are not interested in democracy," said Jerry Sam.

An elderly woman had saved with a bank for years. When the time came to withdraw her investment, the bank refused to pay.

Delphine Uwamahoro came home with the highest marks in her secondary school examinations. Her mother told her she would not be going back to school.

Nice Nailantei Leng'ete was six years old when she lost both parents. At eight, she was set to undergo female genital cutting and escaped.

In North Kivu, eastern DRC, indigenous women and girls had been facing compounding layers of exclusion for generations.

The question Nathan Okiror set out to answer was simple: why were girls in eastern Uganda dropping out of school.

Marcel Cirhuza grew up watching his father provide for an entire village in eastern DRC. That quiet inheritance shaped everything that followed.

ABDO's model is built on a single conviction: people closest to a problem are  the ones who hold its solution.