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Tell us about three project impacts and their potential ripple effects in the wider system over the next 10 years?

Sofonie Dala is a thriving young business leader, serving as the CEO and Founder of Talentos Multiplus, a global cloud-based startup dedicated to finding solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges.

1. Climate-Literate Communities:

By equipping rural youth and women with climate storytelling and sustainability education, the project will foster a new generation of climate-literate changemakers. These individuals will not only lead local adaptation efforts but also influence national policies, shifting the narrative from top-down aid to community-driven resilience.

2. Digital Inclusion and Economic Empowerment:

Through mobile media labs, green innovation training, and access to digital tools, the project will unlock economic opportunities for marginalized groups. Over time, this can reduce rural poverty, close the digital divide, and create eco-social enterprises that support local economies and contribute to green job creation.

3. Decolonizing Knowledge and Development Systems:

By amplifying indigenous and underrepresented voices, the project challenges traditional development models that exclude local wisdom. It will contribute to a more equitable knowledge ecosystem, where lived experience shapes research, policy, and practice—potentially influencing academic institutions, donors, and global development agencies to center local voices in decision-making.

Ripple Effects:

Over 10 years, these impacts can reshape community power structures, inform SDG implementation strategies, and inspire scalable models for grassroots-led transformation across Africa and beyond.

Please tell us about your project: how will it add value and why do you care about it?

Our project combines digital storytelling, grassroots innovation, and climate education to empower marginalized youth and women—especially in rural and indigenous communities—to become leaders in sustainable development. Through our digital platforms, we document local climate impacts, amplify underrepresented voices, and deliver community-based training in green entrepreneurship, digital literacy, and menstrual health. These stories challenge dominant narratives by centering lived experience as a form of expertise and resistance.

Structured around three pillars—storytelling, skills-building, and systems change—the project includes mobile media labs, youth-led climate reporting, and locally driven SDG education campaigns. It is multilingual, multimedia, and community-anchored.

We care about this work deeply because we grew up witnessing how poverty, climate injustice, and gender inequality silence potential. This project is our response—to transform pain into power, and invisibility into influence. It reflects our commitment to a more just, inclusive world where young people are not only heard but lead.