Hadeye Maiga

Hadeye Maiga has eight years’ experience in civil leadership and is the founder and CEO of Yellen Africa in Mali, an NGO which aims to create an exchange platform for youth from African countries on democracy, human rights education, and issues of global peace. She is also a founding member of CRI de Coeur, a group of Malian youths who carried the first humanitarian corridor in northern Mali after the occupation by jihadists in April 2012. She is a graduate in computer networks and telecommunication from Hetec Bamko, Mali and holds an MS in Applied Mathematics from the University of Bamko, Mali. In 2013 she was recognized as one of the 25 Most Outstanding Young Women’s Leaders in Africa. When she returns back home, Hadeye Maiga wants to work to increase girls’ education and fight violence against women in Mali. Her driving sense is that education is a weapon for the empowerment of women.