We do not need middlemen to store and sell our mangoes and oranges. We are much better off doing it ourselves, says Margaret Miano. She set up the Pegama Farm, a rural learning and circular economy based trading hub in Makueni County, Kenya, after attending Danida Fellowship Centre’s learning course Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Value Chains.
Portrait articles
Across every continent former and current Danida fellows drive development and effect change. They make important breakthroughs with innovative and progressive new ideas in a vast spectrum of sectors.
Danida Fellowship Centre is proud of all its alumni. We celebrate it with portrait articles featuring our remarkable former and current students.
If you have suggestions to whom we should interview, please write us at alumni@dfcentre.dk
Alumni portrait
Rich in taste and with a good sustainable story, TOMS EKSTRA chocolate plates were launched in Denmark in 2010. Meet one of the key experts behind the product: Ghanaian Margaret Owusu, PhD from University of Copenhagen.
Like Denmark, Bhutan is concerned with preserving the environment and the livelihoods of it's people, explains Jigme Dorji, MBA, Aarhus University. He foresees business collaboration between the world’s two happiest nations.
As the Country Director of the Population Council in Nairobi, Harriet Birungi still draws on her experiences from her PhD years at University of Copenhagen.
Plastic in lakes and the sea is an increasing, big problem. Bahati Sosthenes Mayoma from Tanzania, found that 20 per cent of the fish by Mwanza in Lake Victoria had plastic in their gastrointestinal tracts.
If you think that career paths as professional singer and scientist are incompatible, then you ought to think twice. 38-year old Danida fellow Nguyễn Đắc Khoa is living proof that the two career paths are complementary.
27 year old computer engineer, Daniël van Schouwenburg decided to change his career path and broaden his horizons.
He went to Denmark in September 2010, three days after his wedding, to pursue a full-time Master of Business Administration (MBA) through the Emerging Leaders Scholarship Programme (ELSP) administered by Danida Fellowship Centre (DFC).
When Lillian Tibatemwa-Ekirikubinza became a PhD student in Denmark she was prepared. From childhood she was a pioneer and expected to excel.