Sazini Mojapelo is the CEO of Village Enterprise and the organisation’s first Africa-based CEO. She leads Village Enterprise’s mission to end extreme poverty in rural Africa through entrepreneurship, innovation, and sustainable economic development.
They work with vulnerable women, refugees, and youth who are most impacted by climate change, conflict, and displacement, and equip them with skills and resources to launch climate-smart businesses, build savings, and put themselves and their families onto a sustainable path out of extreme poverty
Village Enterprise has started over 120,000 businesses and positively transformed the lives of over 2.4 million people in Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Congo-Brazzaville, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Tanzania.
