Connections and Contributions

The Just Peoples team would love to invite you to meet leading social changemakers from across East Africa, South and South-East Asia and learn about how the organisations they've founded are changing lives in their communities. They'll each share an overview of Why and How they do what they do and then take questions from the audience.

You'll have the opportunity to ask questions, or simply listen, learn and be inspired!

We welcome all our current Just Peoples supporters as well as people who are curious about the meaningful change they can make in the world by directly backing local leaders overseas.

*Grants and donations can be made through Just Peoples to directly support the work of the speakers. Donations are tax deductible for Australian and New Zealand tax payers.

SPEAKERS MAY INCLUDE (TBC)

Beth Koigi
Beth is the co-founder of Majik Water, where she specialises in inventing air to water technologies to provide clean drinking water across arid and semi arid regions of sub saharan Africa. Beth and her incredible work featured in Brave Blue World - a documentary on Netflix by Matt Damon.

Hong Tang
Hong runs the largest online support group for at-risk mothers in Vietnam. She provides her community with psychological support and enables single mothers to learn skills and earn an income so they can support themselves and their kids without having to return to violent homes.

Douglas Mwangi
Douglas was honoured as a Queens Young Leader in 2018 for his work providing opportunities to break the cycle of poverty in Mathare slum in Kenya, where he was born and raised. He specialises in creating safe education spaces for kids and providing entrepreneurial and tech skills.

Lucy Odiwa
Lucy won the UN Women SDGs and Her Competition in 2018 for her work producing reusable sanitary pads and promoting menstrual health hygiene management in Tanzanian schools. Lucy also trains and employs women in rural areas to work as pad distribution agents.

Abel Robert Ssekayombya
Robert founded the 'Saint Ann Foundation' in Uganda to honour his late Auntie Ann, who raised him from the age of 8 along with 20 other vulnerable kids. With gratitude for receiving this love and an education, he now supports children, women and refugees to lead safer, more fulfilling lives.

Shah Rafayat Chowdhury
Shah is the co-founder and President of an organisation that has delivered lifetime drinking water access to over 250,000 Bangladeshis. Shah has received the Diana Award, AFS Prize for Young Global Citizens, and was listed in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2022.

Elizabeth Nyokabi
Liz is a Kenyan physiotherapist who is changing what it means to grow up with a disability in Masaai pastoralist communities. Liz works to change mindsets, diagnose conditions, and set up ongoing medical networks and treatment plans for children living with disabilities.

Sharmin Kabir
Sharmin has dedicated her life to reducing the stigma surrounding menstruation for women in Bangladesh. She runs menstrual hygiene workshops, develops sanitary solutions and renovates facilities in slums so girls and women have access to safe, private toilets and showers.