LIGHT MY WORLD - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Co - Founder, Community Engagement & Operations Director

Gyimah holds a degree in Computer Science Engineering from KNUST and has an extensive experience working with children and students from all the levels around the regions of Ghana. As a Co-Founder of Light My World International, he is also empowering youth through his NGO, Action Empowerment Foundation (AEF) through voluntary activities like Healthcare to the communities, Educational supports to high schools and entrepreneurial engagements with the tertiary and youth in the communities. Gyimah has been responsible for implementing the successful community-based sensitization projects in health, ICT literacy and Sustainable resource management. He will be managing our Operations and Social Outreach Engagement with Stakeholders. He has over six years of experience in the non-profit sector starting back from his active involvement in AIESEC at KNUST. Gyimah has worked with Operation Mobilization Ghana making impacts in the Northern and Western regions of Ghana, Youth Development and Advocate Foundation (YUDAF) and currently with Edify Ghana reaching out to schools.

Job Titles:

• Director
• Founding Member
• BL. Co - Founder, Fundraising & Partnership Director

Esther is a founding member and director of Light My World International. She is also an Associate at Landmark Legal. She is attached to the Investment Mining and Finance practice group of the firm. Esther holds a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) degree from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and a Qualifying Certificate in Law from the Ghana School of Law, Accra and a member of the Ghana Bar Association. She was adjudged the best student in Alternative Dispute Resolution for the year 2014/2015, Ghana School of Law, Accra. She is also a member of Young ICCA (International Council for Commercial Arbitration) which is world-wide arbitration knowledge network for young practitioners and students. Esther has also worked with Green Advocacy Ghana, a non-governmental organization in Ghana. During her internship, she worked on the e-waste project which aimed at finding solutions to the problem of e-waste in Ghana. Esther has a strong passion for identifying problems within her community in Ghana and providing solutions to same, hence her involvement with LMWI to help bring light to that school boy/girl in the poorest community in Ghana, many kilometers away from the capital city of Accra, who does not have access to light. Esther will be managing the projects fundraising and partnerships strategy as well as a Legal Administrator for LMWI.

Job Titles:

• Co - Founder, Project Evaluation & Volunteers Coordinator

Joseph is currently the Empowerment Coordinator at Afrika Youth Movement, a pan-African, action-oriented, youth-led movement that believes in the active participation and leadership of African youth to transform Africa and achieve their rights to peace and social justice. He is also one of the founding members of Light my World International who will be serving as the Volunteers and Project Coordinator in charge of coordinating, monitoring and spearheading the training and recruiting of international volunteers to be stationed in villages and communities for the project implementation. Joseph is very enthusiastic about community development, environmental issues and youth empowerment which have seen him attending and speaking at regional and global conferences. Over the past seven years he has led various projects with other organizations promoting global integration and citizenship. He is currently an MPH student at the KNUST Africa Institute of Sanitation and Waste Management. Joseph doubles as the Co-Founder of ShyOut, a web-app that provides free family planning services to young people and Innovations Manager at Kente Master.

Job Titles:

• Co - Founder
• Co - Founder & Project Director, Light to Read!
• Co - Founder, Project Lead - Light to Read
• Strategy and Innovation Advisor

Samuel is a Co-Founder of Light My World International. Having read and studied the plight of inhabitants of communities without electricity in the world especially in Africa, Samuel organized the team to come together and propose solutions to such situation. As a passionate social and wellbeing individual, Samuel has been part of high profile international meetings such as the UN Youth Assembly which took place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York in 2017 where he deliberated with over 1500 youth from all over the world discussing and initiating policies for social inclusion and implementation of the Sustainable Development Goal of the United Nations. Currently, he is also a Shaper of the Global Shapers Prague Hub under the World Economic Forum. Samuel has designed, participated and led youth action projects from his involvement in AIESEC, a global non- governmental organization present in over 124 countries serving as Social Projects Director both in Ghana and Moldova which executed projects in close collaboration with stakeholders. Samuel serves as the Strategy and Innovation Advisor for Light My World International always looking out for various innovative ideas, voice for the voiceless to tackle some of the continent's most pressing challenges such as Energy and Education.