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12 & 13 DECEMBER 2025

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kanthari TALKS mark the grand finale of kanthari’s intensive, hands-on, seven-month on-campus part of the impact leadership program.

Throughout this journey, participants from across the globe transform their visions for social change into actionable, sustainable project plans.

Each participant, who is a change maker, returns home equipped with the skills, courage, and strategies needed to challenge injustice, reshape mindsets, and build innovative solutions within their communities.

In powerful ten-minute talks, they share their personal stories, the challenges they’ve confronted, and the social ventures they’ve created to tackle them.

Over two inspiring days, you’ll experience 20 unique stories and solutions from voices that are redefining leadership from the margins.
The kanthari TALKS are live-streamed for a global audience.

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Dive into riveting stories of changemakers who’ve triumphed over adversity to spark global change. These graduates of our transformative leadership program bare their souls—sharing raw journeys, bold innovations, and real solutions to the world’s toughest challenges.

Feel the fire of their passion, build empathy, and get inspired to fuel your own mission for a fairer, bolder world.

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At 5 AM, while her classmates slept, Itohan was already walking 15 kilometers—carrying 25 liters of water on her head. This was her daily reality. And it cost her everything.Growing up in Abeokuta, Nigeria, a city that means "Under the Rock", Itohan's childhood was defined by water scarcity. When the taps suddenly stopped, her education suffered, her health deteriorated, and her dreams of university faded. Crossing dangerous highways with bowls of muddy water balanced on her head became routine. Diarrhea became normal. Water became survival. But Itohan refused to accept this as fate.After years of struggle and working with Springboard, a kanthari-founded NGO focused on organic farming, she discovered that rural farmers and communities across Nigeria still face the same crisis, only worse. In 2023, she founded Omitide ("Water Has Come"), a grassroots movement transforming how Nigerian communities access, conserve, and protect water.Through rainwater harvesting systems, watershed management training, and community-led water conservation programs, Itohan is tackling one of Nigeria's most urgent crises: 70 million people without clean drinking water. She's not just building wells, she's building resilience, dignity, and food security for farmers and families.This is a story about environmental justice, climate action, and one woman's determination to turn a childhood nightmare into a national solution.🌍 What Omitide is doing: ✅ Running 5-day water awareness programs in water-scarce communities ✅ Training 10 community members per cycle in rainwater harvesting and watershed management ✅ Teaching DIY water-saving devices, drip irrigation, and groundwater replenishment ✅ Partnering with village chiefs and local leaders to maximize community impact ✅ Creating a ripple effect: trained communities inspire neighboring regions to adopt sustainable water practices📌 The crisis: Only 0.5% of Earth's water is accessible freshwater. In Nigeria, access to piped water dropped from 36% (1990) to 11% (2021). Farmers lose income every year due to drought. Children walk dangerous distances for contaminated water. Omitide is changing that.💬 Have you ever gone without water for a day? How did it feel? Share your story below.👍 Like this video if you believe access to clean water is a human right. 🔔 Subscribe for more stories of climate leaders, social entrepreneurs, and environmental changemakers driving sustainability, food security, and water justice across Africa and beyond. 📩 Want to support Omitide's mission? Learn more at https://omitide.org/More about kanthari at www.kanthari.orgA question for you: If you could solve one environmental crisis in your community, what would it be? Let's start a conversation. 💧👇#WaterCrisis #Nigeria #ClimateAction #Sustainability #EnvironmentalJustice #SocialImpact #Kanthari #Changemaker #WaterConservation #FoodSecurity #RainwaterHarvesting #Leadership #Empowerment #AfricanSolutions #ClimateLeaders #SDG6 #InspireDaily
Water Nightmare to Water Revolution in Nigeria | Itohan Iyawe, Nigeria | kanthari TALKS
Faith Siele TED-style talk at kanthari, Kerala: From enduring FGM legacy to empowering Maasai women via Siana cooperatives. Faith Siele, founder of Siana Africa, shares her personal journey, of witnessing a system of female genital mutilation (FGM) and domestic violence to building economic power for Maasai women in Namanga, Kenya. After her husband's brain surgery during COVID, she turned semi-arid land into a thriving farm, experimenting with drought-resistant dragon fruit that succeeded against odds. Passionate about restoring the lioness roar!As a kanthari, Faith embodies leadership transformation, training women in skills, storytelling circles, and value-addition of products such as honey or dragon fruit yogurt. Her cooperative model, inspired by 2025 International Year of Cooperatives, helps women own land, escape dependency (only 1% land owned by women in Kenya), and challenge FGM persisting in 38 tribes. Faith's story hits home for social impact leaders. Ready to unleash your inner lioness? Subscribe. Comment: What's your biggest silence-breaking moment?More information: https://www.sianaafrica.org/ www.kanthari.orgWhat are kanthari TALKS? kanthari TALKS are the powerful finale of kanthari’s seven-month impact leadership course in Kerala, India, a life-changing program for visionaries from around the world who turn their ideas for social change into action. In these inspiring 10-minute talks, each kanthari shares their personal journey, stories of struggle, courage, and transformation, and the unique projects they’ve created to make a real impact.Faith’s TALK is one of 20 powerful voices in the 2025 kanthari course who are redefining leadership, hope, and change from the margins. Get ready to be inspired, because the next story might just ignite your own! Do you carry a plan to start your own impact-making organization? Then the kanthari impact leadership program could be the right place for you. The next course starts in April Visit www.kanthari.org and apply today!#kanthariTALKS #EndFGM #MaasaiWomen #WomensEmpowerment #SianaAfrica #LionessRoar #LeadershipTransformation #SocialImpact
From FGM Silence to Lioness Roar: empowering Maasai women |Faith Siele | Kenya | kanthari TALKS 2025
In the dust of Bindura, a single thread weaves a new future. 🌱 Memory Siyapiya rises from personal loss to ignite hope for a generation. Imagine the hum of a sewing machine echoing through the night, the sound of a mother’s quiet defiance against poverty. Now, it’s the heartbeat of Young Generations, where Memory transforms shattered dreams into vibrant realities. In Zimbabwe’s forgotten corners, youth battle addiction, despair, and survival’s brutal edges. But through her Design Harvest Project, Memory crafts something extraordinary: six months of cinematic redemption. Hands shape sustainable furniture from raw wood, dye fabrics with organic harvests, and design digital worlds, all while healing hearts through counseling, mentorship, and community fire. From street-beggar Chipo building a family legacy in South Africa to young creators becoming role models, this is social change as poetry in motion. A story of environmental action, youth empowerment, resilient leadership, and lives stitched with dignity.Witness the spark that rebuilds worlds. 👍 Like if this moves you, 💬 share your own resilience story below, 🔔 subscribe for more tales of hope and impact.More information; https://younggenerations.co.zw/ www.kantharitalks.org What are kanthari TALKS? kanthari TALKS are the powerful finale of kanthari’s seven-month impact leadership course in Kerala, India, a life-changing program for visionaries from around the world who turn their ideas for social change into action. In these inspiring 10-minute talks, each kanthari shares their personal journey, stories of struggle, courage, and transformation, and the unique projects they’ve created to make a real impact. Memory's TALK is one of 20 powerful voices in the 2025 kanthari course who are redefining leadership, hope, and change from the margins. Get ready to be inspired, because the next story might just ignite your own! Do you carry a plan to start your own impact-making organization? Then the kanthari impact leadership program could be the right place for you. The next course starts in April Visit www.kanthari.org and apply today!🌱#ThreadOfHope #DesignHarvest #KanthariTALKS #YouthEmpowerment #ZimbabweImpact #ResilientLeadership #SocialChange #EnvironmentalAction
Thread of Hope: Reweaving Bindura's Lost Dreams |Memory Siyapiya | Zimbabwe | kanthari TALKS 2025
From Loss to Lake: Jacana, water walkers’ village | Justus Muhwezi | Uganda |kanthari TALKS 2025In the misty hills of Uganda’s Kigezi region, a young man turns heartbreak into hope. 🌊 Justus Muhwezi lost his brother to poverty, now he’s helping other forgotten youth rise above it. What began as pain became Jacana, a social enterprise that transforms school dropouts into “Water Walkers”; resilient young changemakers crafting boats, bamboo art, and new beginnings on Lake Bunyonyi.Through his dream project, the Water Walker Village, Justus not only revives lost skills but also builds a floating hub of sustainability, empowerment, and community-led environmental conservation.This is an inspirational story of leadership, social change, and resilience, proof that even in forgotten places, hope can rise… and sometimes, it floats. 🌱 👉 Like this story? Share your thoughts in the comments and subscribe to kanthariTV 👉 What dropout story hits you hardest? Share below – let's build hope together! 🌍✨More information: https://jacanaafrica.org/ www.kanthari.orgWhat are kanthari TALKS? kanthari TALKS are the powerful finale of kanthari’s seven-month impact leadership course in Kerala, India, a life-changing program for visionaries from around the world who turn their ideas for social change into action. In these inspiring 10-minute talks, each kanthari shares their personal journey, stories of struggle, courage, and transformation, and the unique projects they’ve created to make a real impact.Justus’ TALK is one of 20 powerful voices in the 2025 kanthari course who are redefining leadership, hope, and change from the margins. Get ready to be inspired, because the next story might just ignite your own! Do you carry a plan to start your own impact-making organization? Then the kanthari impact leadership program could be the right place for you. The next course starts in April Visit www.kanthari.org and apply today!#kanthariTALKS #ImpactLeadership #Changemakers #SocialChange #Kanthari
From Loss to Lake: Jacana, water walkers’ village | Justus Muhwezi | Uganda |kanthari TALKS 2025
Gilbert's TED-style talk on social impact leadership transformation: From job rejections and drought-hit Matibi to pioneering Ecowise youth empowerment in Zimbabwe. Discover his DIY water filter breakthrough!Gilbert shares how thinking differently sparked his unique problem-solving approach. After two years of job rejections, a DIY water filter, not his Computer Science degree, landed him an innovation role back in Matibi. This once-green village, his grandparents' home, now suffers from drought and youth exodus, with 48.5% of Masvingo youth neither in education, employment, or training. He champions self-designed learning to unlock creativity stifled by his father's harsh expectations. At Kanthari, Gilbert founded Ecowise, an initiative that engages youth in building a greener future. It rallies them through sports leagues where points reward environmental actions—like trees planted and waste recycled—more than just goals scored.Gilbert’s kanthari TALKS reveals leadership transformation: Turning climate collapse into thriving model villages. Gilbert's story mirrors Barefoot College vibes, practical and empowering.Comment: What is the situation in your area? How would you eco-revive your community? Share below, let's spark change!Subscribe to kanthariTV Website: https://ecowisezw.org/ Website: www.kanthari.orgWhat are kanthari TALKS? kanthari TALKS are the powerful finale of kanthari’s seven-month impact leadership course in Kerala, India, a life-changing program for visionaries from around the world who turn their ideas for social change into action. In these inspiring 10-minute talks, each kanthari shares their personal journey, stories of struggle, courage, and transformation, and the unique projects they’ve created to make a real impact. Gilbert's TALK is one of 20 powerful voices in the 2025 kanthari course who are redefining leadership, hope, and change from the margins. Get ready to be inspired, because the next story might just ignite your own!Do you carry a plan to start your own impact-making organization? Then the kanthari impact leadership program could be the right place for you. The next course starts in April Visit www.kanthari.org and apply today!#kanthariTALKS #Ecowise #YouthEmpowerment #ClimateAction #ZimbabweChangemaker #ImpactLeadership #SocialChange #LeadershipTransformation
Matibi Crisis to Victory: Gilbert’s Game-Changing Sports Hack | Gilbert Rupere | Zimbabwe
What systems are holding back the generation that could shape our shared future? Yadeendar (Tittu) from India grew up in environments that limited open thinking and discussion. Breaking free from those constraints, he now faces the growing climate crisis, and the frustration it creates among young people.With pollution devastating places like the Ennore coast, and Gen Z grappling with climate anxiety and pressure to seek short-term survival over long-term change, Tittu asks a piercing question: why are young people who understand the science of climate change still made to feel voiceless?Through his platform, AGAI, Tittu fosters critical dialogue, awareness, and collective climate action by mobilizing students and communities to challenge environmental injustice. His mission is clear, to replace despair with agency and transform anxiety into impact.In his kanthari TALK, Tittu shares his journey from manipulation to inspiration, and his vision of how youth can lead systemic change to protect our planet’s fragile future.Why Watch? Relatable for social impact leaders, feel the guilt-to-action pivot that sparked AGAI's youth-led revival. Perfect for NGO pros, Kerala changemakers, leadership trainers.Subscribe for weekly social impact tips from kanthari leaders! Comment: What's holding you back from your changemaker pivot? Share below, let's spark a conversation!Links: AGAI: https://agaitov.org/ kanthari: https://kanthari.orgWhat are kanthari TALKS? kanthari TALKS are the powerful finale of kanthari’s seven-month impact leadership course in Kerala, India, a life-changing program for visionaries from around the world who turn their ideas for social change into action. In these inspiring 10-minute talks, each kanthari shares their personal journey, stories of struggle, courage, and transformation, and the unique projects they’ve created to make a real impact.Tittu’s TALK is one of 20 powerful voices in the 2025 kanthari course who are redefining leadership, hope, and change from the margins. Get ready to be inspired, because the next story might just ignite your own!Do you carry a plan to start your own impact-making organization? Then the kanthari impact leadership program could be the right place for you. The next course starts in April Visit www.kanthari.org and apply today!#kanthariTALKS #GenZClimateAction #ClimateAnxiety #YouthLedChange #AGAI #ImpactLeadership #SocialChange #KeralaChangemakers
Tittu's Bold Call: Wake Up Gen-Z Before We Sink | Tittu (Yadeendar) | India | kanthari TALKS
Alick's Intervention Alick Mandandi's TED-style talk at kanthari reveals how his father's hidden diabetes battle sparked HIMZ, saving elderly Zambian men from toxic norms! Watch his uplifting journey. Listen to Alick Mandandi, HIMZ founder and kanthari changemaker.He shares his heartfelt solution for rural elderly men in Zambia. These men silently battle undiagnosed diabetes and hypertension due to "tough guy" norms that discourage seeking help. How HIMZ Helps: Organic HIM Gardens: Community spaces for awareness, storytelling, and growing diabetes-friendly foods like spinach and ginger. H4HIM Mobile Clinics: Doorstep services 3x weekly with BP checks, glucometers, massages, and referrals – no more 50km treks.Alick turns his father's hidden pain into hope, restoring dignity and challenging patriarchy. Simple, powerful changeThis 10-min talk shares raw snippets: Seeing his dad's weight loss at 68, vowing no more silent suffering. Empowering men to grow spinach & ginger while sharing stories breaks isolation. HIMZ restores dignity, reduces amputations, and shifts gender burdens.Ready to challenge norms? 👍 Like if Alick's story hits home! 🔔 Subscribe for weekly social impact tips from kanthari leaders! 💬 Comment: What's your biggest challenge breaking "strong man" myths? 👀 Watch next:🌐 kanthari: https://kanthari.org 📸 HIMZ: https://himz.org/What are kanthari TALKS? kanthari TALKS are the powerful finale of kanthari’s seven-month impact leadership course in Kerala, India, a life-changing program for visionaries from around the world who turn their ideas for social change into action. In these inspiring 10-minute talks, each kanthari shares their personal journey, stories of struggle, courage, and transformation, and the unique projects they’ve created to make a real impact.Alick’s TALK is one of 20 powerful voices in the 2025 kanthari course who are redefining leadership, hope, and change from the margins. Get ready to be inspired, because the next story might just ignite your own!Do you carry a plan to start your own impact making organization? Then the kanthari impact leadership program could be the right place for you. Visit www.kanthari.org and apply today!#kanthariTALKS #HIMZ #MensHealthZambia #BreakTheNorms #LeadershipTransformation #SocialImpact #DiabetesAwareness #ElderlyEmpowerment
Why Zambia's Strongest Men Die Alone | Alick Mandandi | Zambia | kanthari TALKS 2025
When every scream went unheard, she chose to speak out. From surviving domestic violence to founding a movement for healing and equality, Nyasha Marylyn Munetsi turned her deepest pain into powerful purpose.In this inspiring impact story, Nyasha reveals how she rose from depression and injustice to create Speak Out Voice It (SOVI), a grassroots initiative helping survivors rebuild their lives and challenging harmful masculinities in Zimbabwe.Through support circles, eco‑farming for empowerment, and programs that engage both survivors and perpetrators, SOVI is breaking the silence and transforming families from cycles of trauma to renewal.This Talk explores themes of gender-based violence, resilience, empowerment, survivor leadership, social change, and environmental sustainability, offering hope that healing can grow like trees with deep roots.🌍 Watch, feel inspired, and share this story of courage and change. 💬 Like, comment, and subscribe to support more voices driving social transformation.More information: https://speakout-voiceit.org/ www.kanthari.orgWhat are kanthari TALKS? kanthari TALKS are the powerful finale of kanthari’s seven-month impact leadership course in Kerala, India, a life-changing program for visionaries from around the world who turn their ideas for social change into action. In these inspiring 10-minute talks, each kanthari shares their personal journey, stories of struggle, courage, and transformation, and the unique projects they’ve created to make a real impact.Faith’s TALK is one of 20 powerful voices in the 2025 kanthari course who are redefining leadership, hope, and change from the margins. Get ready to be inspired, because the next story might just ignite your own! Do you carry a plan to start your own impact-making organization? Then the kanthari impact leadership program could be the right place for you. The next course starts in April Visit www.kanthari.org and apply today!#kanthariTALKS #NyashaMunetsi #SpeakOutVoiceIt #EndGBV #SurvivorLeadership #WomenEmpowerment #EcoFarming #SocialChange #ZimbabweChangemakers #ImpactLeadership
Beaten Silent, Now She Leads: Nyasha Munetsi | Zimbabwe | kanthari TALKS 2025
Esther's TED-style talk on empowering rural Nigerian girls through Iwari leadership transformation. Discover her dropout story to change the lives of girls and young women in Nigeria. Esther shares her raw journey: from a childhood forced into med school to realize her father's dream, to walking out after 3 years—alone, broke, but alive with purpose. She freelanced art, baked, designed, then hit the road teaching skills to purposeless youth in Owo, watching them become breadwinners. Her family's pride flipped, too! This fuels her organization Iwari! "Iwari" is a Yoruba word from Nigeria, meaning "discovery," "sought out," or "to seek and find.".Her program is battling 40-50% NEET rates for rural Nigerian girls via exposure trips to studios/fintech, resilience camps (burn your fears!), experimental labs (welding to filmmaking), and launch internships. Passionate about art, storytelling, and changemaking, Esther shows how school dropouts can ignite self-leadership in rural Nigerian girls battling child marriage and absent role models.Empowering, right? If you've battled family expectations or dream of social impact in Nigeria/Kerala-style leadership, this is your sparkSubscribe Comment: What's suppressing your true passion today? Share below, let's inspire each other! 🌟More information: • Iwari site: https://iwari.org/ • www.kanthari.org#SocialImpact #LeadershipTransformation #GirlPowerNigeria #IwariChangemakers #RuralEmpowerment #TEDStyleTalk #WomenLeadership #ImpactStory #SelfDiscovery #NigeriaYouth What are kanthari TALKS? kanthari TALKS are the powerful finale of kanthari’s seven-month impact leadership course in Kerala, India, a life-changing program for visionaries from around the world who turn their ideas for social change into action. In these inspiring 10-minute talks, each kanthari shares their personal journey, stories of struggle, courage, and transformation, and the unique projects they’ve created to make a real impact. Esthers’ TALK is one of 20 powerful voices in the 2025 kanthari course who are redefining leadership, hope, and change from the margins. Get ready to be inspired, because the next story might just ignite your own!Do you carry a plan to start your own impact-making organization? Then the kanthari impact leadership program could be the right place for you. The next course starts in April Visit www.kanthari.org and apply today!#SocialImpact #kanthariTALKS #Iwari #GirlPowerNigeria #LeadershipTransformation #RuralEmpowerment #YouthEmpowerment #SocialImpact #WomenLeadership
Why Esther Ditched Med School for THIS Game-Changer – Esther Oke | Nigeria |kanthari TALKS 2025
When hunger becomes a child’s daily companion, even dreams begin to starve. But one man who grew up faking school meals with stones decided to change that story, forever. Meet Moris Muhindo, a compassionate change maker from Kasese, Uganda, whose childhood hunger ignited a movement called Endanda Eco. After years of watching students collapse from hunger, the same hunger that once shadowed his own life, Moris found a simple yet powerful solution: teaching families that food can grow anywhere.Through sack farming, rooftop gardens, vertical planting, and organic manure making, Endanda Eco helps parents and schools turn tiny spaces into green oases of nourishment. Every child now plants a fruit tree of hope, learning that sustainability, empowerment, and dignity can flourish even in the poorest soil. This isn’t just a story about food, it’s a story about resilience, leadership, and reimagining what’s possible when adversity becomes the seed of innovation. 🌍 If you believe in the power of social change, food security, and impactful leadership, this story will move you.❤️ Like, comment, and subscribe to support more inspiring stories of transformation and to be part of a growing movement for a hunger free, sustainable world. More information; https://endandaeco.org/ www.kantharitalks.orgWhat are kanthari TALKS? kanthari TALKS are the powerful finale of kanthari’s seven-month impact leadership course in Kerala, India, a life-changing program for visionaries from around the world who turn their ideas for social change into action. In these inspiring 10-minute talks, each kanthari shares their personal journey, stories of struggle, courage, and transformation, and the unique projects they’ve created to make a real impact.Manish’s TALK is one of 20 powerful voices in the 2025 kanthari course who are redefining leadership, hope, and change from the margins. Get ready to be inspired, because the next story might just ignite your own! Do you carry a plan to start your own impact-making organization? Then the kanthari impact leadership program could be the right place for you. The next course starts in AprilVisit www.kanthari.org and apply today!🌱 #NoMoreStones #EndandaEco #KanthariTALKS #SackFarming #FoodSecurity #EndHungerUganda #ImpactLeadership #SustainableFarming
No More Stones in the lunchbox - Ending hunger in Uganda | Moris Mohindu | kanthari TALKS 2025
From Poisoned Soil to Global Hope | Putri's Regenerative Fight #RegenerativeAgriculture #kanthariTALKSWhat if healing the earth could heal a nation, and ourselves? 🌍 Meet Ika Putri Novita Wati, whose journey from religious conformity in Indonesia to ecological awakening in Europe ignited a worldwide call for regenerative agriculture and soil regeneration.In a country plagued by pesticide use and biodiversity loss, Putri co-founded Ecotica to pioneer regenerative agriculture, transforming 1,300 m² of previously dead land into a biodiverse farm that thrives with over 40 native crops, agroforestry, biochar, and pollinators. Building on this foundation, Ecotica is developing its Soil to Plate program, a future initiative designed to empower women and youth through natural preservation, value-added processing, and direct farmer–consumer links via Harvest Hubs, reviving food sovereignty and farmer livelihoods on a global stage. #SoilRegeneration #ClimateResilienceThis is environmental action meeting social empowerment: composting waste into "black gold," challenging industrial farming, and proving that smallholder farmers can lead the way to a sustainable future. Putri's mantra: ”If we see the problem clearly, what are we waiting for?" fuels a movement for climate resilience, biodiversity restoration, and impact leadership worldwide.Watch how Putri cultivates hope amid collapse. Share your thoughts: What's your vision for regenerative change?👉 Like if this inspires you, comment your takeaways, subscribe for more global impact stories, sustainability solutions, and changemaker journeys! #ImpactLeadershipMore information: https://ecotica.org/ https://www.kanthari.org/What are kanthari TALKS? kanthari TALKS are the powerful finale of kanthari’s seven-month impact leadership course in Kerala, India—a life-changing program for visionaries from around the world who turn their ideas for social change into action. In these inspiring 10-minute talks, each kanthari shares their personal journey, stories of struggle, courage, and transformation, and the unique projects they’ve created to make a real impact.Putri’s TALK is one of 20 powerful voices in the 2025 kanthari course who are redefining leadership, hope, and change from the margins. Get ready to be inspired, because the next story might just ignite your own! Do you carry a plan to start your own impact-making organization? Then the kanthari impact leadership program could be the right place for you. The next course starts in April. Visit www.kanthari.org and apply today!#kanthariTALKS #RegenerativeAgriculture #Ecotica #SoilRegeneration #ClimateResilience #ImpactLeadership #WomenEmpowerment #IndonesiaChangemaker
Healing Earth & Farmers: Putri's Ecotica Breakthrough | Ika Putri | Indonesia | kanthari TALKS 2025
Shamed at 18, Now Rising: Rita's Teen Mom Revolution Rita's world shattered at 18, pregnant, shamed, and silenced by a culture that never taught her about sex. Her father's quiet gift of hope and her newborn's gaze pulled her from despair to defy the stigma. From dropping out in fear during Cameroon's crisis, Rita founded Kinamani, a nurturing haven where teen moms heal through a garden-inspired journey: sowing seeds of sex education, watering confidence, weeding trauma, and harvesting entrepreneurship. Young mothers and their children emerge empowered, turning judgment into role models and silence into stories of renewal. This is a tale of compassionate leadership blooming amid Anglophone conflict, proving every girl can begin again. 👉 If Rita's resilience inspires you, like, comment, and subscribe for more stories of hope.More information: https://kinamani.org/ https://www.kanthari.org/What are kanthari TALKS? kanthari TALKS are the powerful finale of kanthari’s seven-month impact leadership course in Kerala, India, a life-changing program for visionaries from around the world who turn their ideas for social change into action. In these inspiring 10-minute talks, each kanthari shares their personal journey, stories of struggle, courage, and transformation, and the unique projects they’ve created to make a real impact.Rita’s TALK is one of 20 powerful voices in the 2025 kanthari course who are redefining leadership, hope, and change from the margins. Get ready to be inspired, because the next story might just ignite your own!Do you carry a plan to start your own impact-making organization? Then the kanthari impact leadership program could be the right place for you. The next course starts in April Visit www.kanthari.org and apply today!🌍 #kanthariTALKS #TeenMomRevolution #Kinamani #YouthEmpowerment #WomensEmpowerment #SocialChange #LeadershipTransformation #TeenPregnancySupport
Talking about sex is okay! Fight the shame! | Fon Rita Bih | Cameroon | kanthari TALKS
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You know the change society needs… We just give you the tools…

Do you carry a plan to make a difference within your community and are you looking for a leadership training course to acquire the necessary skills? Then check out the kanthari Curriculum and apply to become a participant in the next kanthari course that starts in April 2025. Apply today at www.kanthari.org/admission

Since 2009, 303 participants from 57 countries were trained at the kanthari campus in Trivandrum, Kerala, India.


This has resulted in 200+ social initiatives and organisations that are creating a positive impact in the lives of thousands of people within their communities and therewith contributing to a more peaceful world, every day.

At kanthari our aim is to annually train 20 – 25 leaders:
The course is a final stop before starting an own organisation / venture /NGO or social enterprise.
If you are selected, a scholarship will be provided.

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