Application Deadline: January 15 2013
The Akili Dada Fellows program awards year-long, renewable fellowships to young women leaders engaged in social change projects of their design. The program serves as an incubator providing financial, intellectual, mentoring, and networking resources to young women as they grow their projects to scale and sustainability.
These fellowships were created in direct response to the absence of African women among the ranks of those celebrated in existing social entrepreneurship incubators.
Akili Dada is an international award winning leadership incubator nurturing a generation of young African women from underprivileged backgrounds whose commitment to the underserved is transforming their communities.
By selecting from and building the capacity of some of Africa’s most innovative young women change makers, the akili dada fellowship is meeting the urgent need for both more African women in leadership, as well as the overall need for transformative leadership across the continent.