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🌟 Announcing the 2024 WE Empower UN SDG Challenge Awardees! 🌟 We are thrilled to announce our remarkable cohort of women social entrepreneurs who are making significant strides across a range of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). ✨Middle East and North Africa: Dr. Ayesha Zulfiqar (#Pakistan) Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer, Bioniks - Revolutionizing healthcare using AI to provide customizable and affordable bionic limbs. ✨Asia & the Pacific: Lach Baniya (#Myanmar) Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer, Icarus Media - Bridging information gaps and addressing disinformation and social challenges such as women’s empowerment, reaching 20% of Myanmar’s population monthly. ✨Europe, North America and Other: Dr. Edda Aradottir (#Iceland) Co-Founder and CEO, Carbfix - Contributing to climate recovery through proprietary technology that permanently mineralizes captured CO2 underground. ✨Sub-Saharan Africa: Teresa Njoroge (#Kenya) Founder and CEO, Clean Start Africa - Restoring dignity and supporting successful reintegration for women, girls, and children impacted by the criminal justice system. ✨Latin America and the Caribbean: Lina Maria Useche Jaramillo (#Brazil) Co-Founder and Head of Institutional Relations, Aliança Empreendedora - Empowering, training, and connecting low-income micro-entrepreneurs, with over 200,000 predominantly women and people of color supported to date. Our Awardees will travel to New York City in September to participate in events surrounding the 79th Session of the UN General Assembly, Summit of the Future, and Climate Week and we are so excited to have them join our cohort of incredibly inspiring women. Join us in congratulating these extraordinary leaders! 🎉 Read more about these women and their work here: https://lnkd.in/dhZZ_qyZ Thank you to our incredible Lead Partners who make WE Empower possible! ASU Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory Amanda Ellis Vital Voices Global Partnership Alyse Nelson BMO Moriah Linton MBA DVF (Diane von Furstenberg) GroYourBiz LTD Barbara Mowat - GroYourBiz Ltd. President and Founder Procter & Gamble Allison Tummon Kamphuis RELX Márcia Balisciano The Rockefeller Foundation Eileen O'Connor Saïd Business School, University of Oxford Kristine Navarro Homoki United Nations Foundation Michelle Milford Morse The World Bank Tea Trumbic Marianne Gilchrist #WEmpower #UNSDG #WomenEntrepreneurs #Empowerment #ClimateWeek #NYC