Nkem Okocha is the founder of Mamamoni Empowerment Foundation, a FinTech social enterprise that empowers low-income rural-and-urban slum women with free vocational, financial skill and micro-loans. Mamamoni's web platform www.mamamoni.org allows socially-conscious individuals to lend to low-income women money for their small businesses. Since inception over 7000 low-women have been impacted through Mamamoni. Nkem is a 2015 Tony Elumelu Foundation Alumna, 2016 Outstanding LEAP Africa Social Innovator, Young African Leadership Initiative (YALI) alumna, GSBI® accelerator Alumna and a 2017 Mandela Washington Fellow. She is passionate about Financial Inclusion, Women Empowerment, Technology and Entrepreneurship. She is a graduate of Lagos State University. Sources: Wikipedia, LinkedIn, thespark dot com. Photo: risenetworks dot org
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