09/07/2026
“Every Time Women Are Happy, She Is the Happiest”: How Dienaba Keita and the Jamila Foundation Are Closing the Empowerment Gap
Behind every program, , and success story at the Jamila Foundation is a leader who walks extra miles so that every , , and has a better place to stand. That leader is our team leader, Dienaba Keita.
When women are happy, she is the happiest. When a girl returns to school, when a woman reads her first full sentence, when a mother starts her own business—these are the moments that fuel her commitment.
This leadership sits at the heart of the Foundation’s work to close the women’s empowerment gap in Africa, where:
Women earn about 78 cents for every dollar earned by men.
Only 27.4% of national parliament seats worldwide are held by women.
In Africa, just 26% of young women complete secondary education.
In Boké, Guinea, 75% of women are illiterate, blocking economic participation and voice.
Under Hann’s leadership, the Jamila Foundation responds with concrete action:
1. Education & Literacy
Scholarships for disadvantaged children, with 30% reserved for girls, challenging the pattern where poverty pushes girls out of school first.
The project in Boké, which gives 100 learners in Katougouma access to literacy and a path to self-reliance—many of them women facing the highest illiteracy rates.
2. Entrepreneurship & Economic Opportunity
In its first year, the Foundation trained 315 young people in entrepreneurship, leadership, and professional skills, creating a new generation of economically active leaders.
It explicitly supports women-, youth-, and marginalized-led enterprises that remain among the most underfunded despite their potential for jobs and inclusive growth.
3. Women’s Leadership in High-Value Sectors
Through partnerships with organizations like WIM Guinée, the Foundation is helping women access and opportunities in male-dominated fields like .
Platforms such as the Africa Women of Impact Summit bring women leaders together to share strategies, build networks, and amplify their influence.
Hann’s leadership turns these programs from projects on paper into lived change: more girls in classrooms, more women in workplaces, more voices in decision-making rooms.
At a time when only 4% of women live in countries with near-full legal equality, leaders like Hann Dieanable and teams like the Jamila Foundation are essential bridges between rights on paper and opportunities in daily life.
Follow and support the work of the Jamila Foundation as it closes the empowerment gap—one woman, one girl, one child at a time.
