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African young issues. This later developed into his Clean Water
African entrepreneurs are leading more than 25,000 people throughout the
for Everyone project, that has so far, supported

the way, pushing the
continent
social boundaries of Africa’s He currently consults for the European

economic development,
Commission Directorate General for
aligned with new
Development and Cooperation (EuropeAid)
ventures technology and focused developing tools and cases to support the
European Union assistance for decentralization,
on improving the physical,
local governance and local development
social and business
Abbey’s current Project is even more exciting;
are driving environment for people it’s a new financial tech start up, by the name of

Esusu, similar to what the Caribbean community
across the Continent.
used to call the “Pardna system”, and now
based on a digital platform, Esusu facilitates
African Take this young man for example: He is Abbey community-based savings and lending, in poor

Wemimo, a 24-year-old Nigerian businessman
rural communities.
and social entrepreneur committed to clean
environment. He is the founder and Chief
Young, dynamic and committed to improving
economic Executive Officer of Clean Water for Everyone the life chances of the very poorest on the

(CWFE), an organization that provides access to
African continent, this young man demonstrates
clean and affordable water supply in developing creativity and ingenuity that is driving Africa’s
success. countries, particularly the African continent. economic revival.

He is attracting a lot of attention as a result of his

driving passion and the unique energy he brings
Mr Abbey to his business dealings. Already attracting

attention, Abbey is the recipient of the: 2014
Face2Face Africa Young African Committed
Abbey Wemimo to Excellence award; New York University
Wemimo is Dean Scholarship; Sue W. Hancock Scholarly
(NYU) Presidential Service award; NYU Wagner

Excellence in Equity and Diversity (SEED) award;
a perfect the United States Presidential Achievement

award and the National Excellence in Leadership
award.

example. Abbey immigrated to the United States in 2009

to further his education, attended the University
of Minnesota and began working with other
students on tackling critical environmental