Segal Family Foundation

09/02/2026

Guess what? The network just got stronger. Meet Safe Haven Foundation. 💚 🇹🇿

Safe Haven Foundation supports young women with the knowledge and protection that make healthier life choices possible, especially in contexts where poverty, early pregnancy, and gender-based violence can quickly narrow options.

We especially love the way the program brings all the pieces together.

SRH education sits alongside leadership training, mentorship, and life skills, and that combination helps girls advocate for themselves, keep pursuing education, and participate in community decision-making. 🌟

To learn more, visit safehavenfoundation.or.tz

09/02/2026

Four episodes in, and these conversations are getting GOOD. 👀🎙️

Consider this your invitation to catch up with The Next Beat podcast. 🎧

Start with Ojok Okello if you want to meet the rural futurist building an entire city from scratch in northern Uganda, and hear why he believes the village is exactly where Africa’s future can be built.

Watch Komlan Abalo Braly if you’ve ever wondered what happens when someone stops waiting for the system to solve the problem. Displaced by conflict to a community with no upper secondary school, the applied-physics graduate who had never planned to teach decided to build one.

Choose Ziadath Achimi for a story about the things we carry with us. As a girl in rural Benin, fetching water nearly cost her an education. Today, she’s an engineer building solutions around the very problem that once stood between her and school.

And press play on Nathan Okiror and Lydie Hakizimana for a conversation the social impact world probably needs more of: joy. Why do we expect people doing difficult work to perform their struggle? And what changes when African leaders refuse to do so?

At the mic for every conversation is host Muthi Nhlema of BASEflow, asking the questions that get beyond what these leaders are building and into the choices, convictions, and experiences behind it. 🎙️

Different sides of the continent, different countries, different work, different lives. Just African leaders telling their own stories, in their own words, from within. 🌟

So yes, this is your sign to get in on . 🥁

You know how to find it: youtube . com / .family.foundation

See you there. 💚

08/27/2026

Just 3% of accredited artisans in Kenya are women. Our partner Buildher is working to change that. 👷🏾‍♀️💚
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BuildHer is helping Kenyan women build careers in skilled construction, earn more, and claim their place in an industry where women have long been underrepresented.

And people are paying attention. Their work was recently featured by NPR. 🙌🏾

Since 2019, BuildHer has trained more than 1,000 women, with graduates increasing their average daily earnings five- to six-fold. A 2024 Dalberg study also found that 65% were still working in construction a year after graduating.

Now that’s how you demolish barriers. 💚

Read the full NPR story: https://www.npr.org/2026/07/05/g-s1-129643/construction-business-women-kenya

08/19/2026

Senegal is bringing new energy to the SFF community: please welcome, Teach For Senegal. 🇸🇳✨

What do they do, you ask? Well, they recruit and train young leaders to teach in underserved schools, with a focus on foundational learning and leadership development that lasts beyond the classroom.

Why we love them is pretty simple: they’re narrowing a major resource gap in Senegal’s education system by bringing more young people into teaching, and they’re helping expand early childhood education in a public system where that kind of focus has been missing.

Want to learn more? Visit http://teachforsenegal.org.

08/19/2026

Ojok Okello had a good job, a house on campus, a car, and what he calls his “middle-class dream” in Kampala.

Then he quit his job and told his wife they were moving to a village with “guineafowl and snakes and pythons” to chase that other dream. 😭

His friends thought he'd gone berserk. His boss literally refused to accept his resignation.

Ojok went anyway.

A year later, CNN picked up the story and proof that he wasn't crazy after all.

Today, that “stupid dream in the village,” as Ojok once called it, has a name: Okere City - a community of around 6,000 people in rural northern Uganda reimagining what village life can offer.

There’s a school serving 700 children, healthcare in the village, and a shea butter factory creating jobs and connecting local producers directly to global markets. And Ojok is nowhere near finished.

Hear how he went all in on a rural future in Episode 1 of The Next Beat, with host Muthi Nhlema. 🎙️ Watch it on our YouTube channel (segal.family.foundation). ⏯️

08/18/2026

Who looks the most interview-ready here? 😉🤓
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Just a couple our rockstars getting ready for their close-ups filmed last month at .

Rollout of each begins on a Tuesday/Friday near you later this month. 💚

Stay tuned.

08/18/2026

If you thought had a lot happening in the room, wait until you see what Alliance Magazine captured. 👀

The comprehensive is packed!

It captures the people, ideas, and big conversations that made The Next Beat what it was. 💚

So trust us... there's plenty to read, revisit, and keep thinking about. You better dive in. ⤵️

https://www.alliancemagazine.org/conf-report/segal-2026-the-next-beat/

Last month in Nairobi, more than 700 organisation leaders, funders, social innovators, and policymakers from Africa and elsewhere around the world attended Segal 2026: The Next Beat, a gathering aimed at reshaping how global philanthropy …

08/13/2026

What does it take to build a city from scratch, in a place the world wrote off? 🤔

Ojok Okello returned to rural Uganda to build Okere City: a self-sufficient community, powered and run from within. When the funding dried up, he kept going. When nobody was applauding, he kept building.

In the very first episode of The Next Beat, he sits with host Muthi Nhlema to explain what he means when he calls himself a “rural futurist” and why the future of Africa isn’t coming. It’s already here.

🎧 Watch the full conversation — link in the comments.

08/07/2026

We know what you're thinking: "Didn't we already get the trailer?" 🤭 Technically... yes. But this is the *full* trailer. ⤵️
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Director's cut. Extended edition.

(Okay, maybe not that extended.)

So, yes, the next beat has a microphone... and you'll hear why next week. 🎙️

Throughout , we pulled up a chair with the African visionaries shaping the continent's future for conversations hosted by Muthi Nhlema that you won't get anywhere else.

And news flash: episode 1 is out sooner than you can procrastinate subscribing to our YouTube channel (so, you might want to do that now 🤳).

podcast premieres Tuesday, 11th August at 10 AM ET | 3 PM UK | 4 PM CEST | 5 PM Nairobi. You won't want to miss that next beat drop on YouTube and your fave podcast platform. See you there. 🥁