23/05/2025
🎊 🎓 Congratulations to the 10 young women entrepreneurs of POWER Cohort 3 2025! Your diligence and resilience shone through after an intense three-month period of training, coaching, and mentorship in social entrepreneurship. Out of the 10, three outstanding young women innovators were rigorously selected by a panel of three judges.
👑 Champion: Nadia Malker Nanteza, Founder of Lyfex Africa| Nourishing Lives, Empowering Communities. This business aims to nourish lives and advance health equity through nutrition and financial empowerment. Nadia walked away with a cash prize of UGX 1,000,000.
🏆 1st Runner Up: Babirye Angella, Founder of Eco-Bella Organics a business venture geared towards restoring health, confidence, and dignity through organic solutions, walked away with a cash prize of UGX 700,000
🏆 2nd Runner Up: Elizabeth Kawalya Mbekeka, Founder of Better Minds a business venture geared towards nurturing minds and building futures, walked away with UGX 500,000
The other seven ladies each received seed capital worth UGX 200,000 to help them run their business ventures. Also noteworthy is the awarding of the Best Business Coach, a selection made by the young ladies. This Cohort's best was Sharon Natukunda, who is also a POWER Alumna and she walked away with UGX 300,000..
Keep an eye out for Cohort 4!
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