Ambitious.Africa, a young initiative that aspires to be the bridge between Africa and the Nordics, partnered up with the technology group Wärtsilä.

Ambitious.Africa and Wärtsilä have joined in a strategic partnership based on their mutual values and goals towards supporting youth in Africa and Europe in international collaboration towards a sustainable future.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion are the key to a sustainable future. Empowerment is a fundamental right that everyone should have equal access to since it has the power to transform society by embracing diversity as something beautiful. Women today face several social and societal difficulties based on their gender alone: gender biases, stereotypes, norms, and oppression. Through equal participation in education, politics, economics, and society overall, women gain the confidence they deserve. Because women can - and women will.

SideBySide is a fairtrade interior design company started in 2016, which Ambitious Africa is partnering with. The business has so far employed five hundred women in Tanzania, in rural communities as well as in a women’s shelter. The women make interior items such as handweaved baskets, which are sold to Finnish resellers. They can use their earnings to move beyond household duties and imagine new possibilities for themselves and their families.

Only 30% of Africans have a smartphone. The cost of a smartphone is often equivalent to a full month or half a month all earnings, further data costs are expensive as well. The backbone of Africa's economy and well being are women who spend more than 80% of their earnings on family and the community. By enabling women entrepreneurs access to credit and a smartphone the economic opportunities increase, as do the access to life-changing information related to health, education and civic participation.