Coumba Toure
Mali
It is challenging to be a feminist daughter, wife, mother, and worker. In all parts of my life, the
struggles are present and constant.
I currently live in Mali where I work for Ashoka. My role is to support social
entrepreneurs and their organisations, also known as Changemakers. The
work I do is based on the assumption that every problem, every issue in any
community can be solved by engaging people to find innovative solutions to
these problems. Using this philosophy, we support these processes by making
visible the initiatives and facilitating networking among Changemakers to
ensure that they are able to realize their objectives sand find opportunities
for collaboration where possible. The philosophy is also based on the idea
that given that new problems are constantly born, we need to equip everyone
from childhood to have the capacity and the sense of responsibility to act
and bring about change and justice. I also write and publish books and other
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