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Tumwebaze Khamutima, The C.E.O of Young Farmers Champions Network has scooped the 2016 Echoing Green Global Fellowship. Echoing Green identifies tomorrow’s transformational leaders today. Through its Fellowships and other innovative leadership initiatives, Echoing Green spots emerging leaders and invests deeply in their success to accelerate their impact. It accelerates leading social change talent, investing deeply in visionaries serving communities all over the world. Echoing Green Fellows are the innovators, instigators, pioneers, and rebels that reject the status quo and drive positive social change all over the world. While their work, their geographies, and even their approaches may be as varied as the problems they are working to solve, their common passion and commitment form the base of this robust, active community of leaders
We are excited that the C.E.O of our organization Young Farmers Champions Network that works to Expand employment opportunities for youth and ensure food security in Uganda by attracting young people into commercial farming has joined the exclusive network of fellow rebels that are transforming their communities through social entrepreneurship at Echoing Green
The Young Farmers Champions Network (YOFCHAN) is an umbrella organization for youth in agriculture in Uganda. Its mandate is to lobby and advocate for an enabling environment that promotes youth engagement in agriculture as a business. YOFCHAN focuses on lobby and advocacy for youth inclusion in the agricultural sector policies and agribusiness development of young farmers’ enterprises. To achieve this, YOFCHAN organizes platforms that bring the young farmers and policy makers together to discuss issues affecting youth in agriculture and builds their capacity to engage in agriculture as a business. YOFCHAN’s ultimate goal is to improve youth livelihoods through agriculture.
With this opportunity, we hope that the expertise and the networks that will be created will be good for the development of our organization.
