Ashes To Action | SDG 3&7

Featuring: Ruth Wambui
Ruth Wambui is committed to transforming lives through sustainable cooking practices. Through her work with the Clean Cooking Association of Kenya, she addresses the health, environmental, and economic challenges of traditional cooking methods, empowering communities with clean energy solutions and advancing opportunities for women.

Featured Episodes

Ashes To Action | SDG 3&7

Goal 3 | Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. Goal 7 |Ensure access to...

Piloting Dreams | SDG 4&5

Goal 4 | Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning...

Dismantling Systemic Oppression | SDG 5,10&16

Goal 5 | Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. Goal 10 | Promote policies and...

Ashes To Action | SDG 3&7

Featuring: Ruth Wambui
Ruth Wambui is committed to transforming lives through sustainable cooking practices. Through her work with the Clean Cooking Association of Kenya, she addresses the health, environmental, and economic challenges of traditional cooking methods, empowering communities with clean energy solutions and advancing opportunities for women.

Piloting Dreams | SDG 4&5

Featuring: Refilwe Ledwaba

Refilwe Ledwaba is dedicated to empowering young African women in STEM. Through Girls Fly Africa, she breaks down barriers, offering mentorship, training, and motivation to help a new generation of girls expand their horizons and redefine what’s possible.

Dismantling Systemic Oppression | SDG 5,10&16

Featuring: Emilia Roig

Emilia Roig is a social justice advocate who challenges systemic inequality and amplifies the voices of marginalized communities. Through compelling advocacy, she dismantles oppression, reshapes narratives, and inspires a shift in collective consciousness to achieve equality, emphasizing the importance of an inclusive, intersectional approach.

Voices From The Margins | SDG 4&10

Featuring: Valentine Onyeka Ogunaka
Valentine Onyeka Ogunaka is a storyteller and social advocate who amplifies the resilience of marginalized communities. Through powerful narratives, he challenges stereotypes, reshapes perceptions, and highlights the humanity and triumphs behind global development efforts.

Art For Activism | 5 Ps

Featuring: Yacine Ait-Kaci
Yacine Ait-Kaci is a visionary digital artist and social activist at the forefront of using creativity to ignite global change. With his captivating visual storytelling, Yacine transforms concepts like sustainability, human rights, and social inclusion into compelling narratives that inspire action.

Nigeria’s Brain Gain: Nabila’s Return | SDG 4&5

Featuring: Nabila Aguele
Nabila Aguele spearheads progressive policies, narratives, and movements to promote gender equality, innovation, and social inclusion, advancing SDG 4: Quality Education and SDG 5: Gender Equality.

Unlocking Genius | SDG 4&8

Featuring: Brandon Nicholson
Brandon Nicholson is spearheading a transformative movement in youth empowerment through his organization, The Hidden Genius Project, in the United States.

Lighting Up Africa | SDG 7

Featuring: Benedict Owanga & Chinelo Adi
Benedict Owanga & Chinelo Adi, the co-founders of Owanga Solar are tackling energy poverty in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) with innovative battery and solar solutions, advancing SDG 7 (Affordable & Clean Energy).

Championing Gender Parity | SDG 5

Featuring: Alice Apostoly
Alice Apostoly, a feminist diplomacy and international gender activist, is increasing awareness of gender mainstreaming to disseminate solutions for combating gender-based violence and injustices using a human rights-based framework with her work at the Gender in Geopolitics Institute.

Voices for Zainab | SDG 4&5

Featuring: Carolyn Seaman
Carolyn Seaman, an advocate for girls’ rights, is committed to dismantling barriers to education for girls in Nigeria. Her resolve stems from a personal experience involving her classmate, Zainab, who endured the ordeal of forced child marriage.

Strengthening Food Security | SDG 2

Featuring: Isak Pretorius
Isak Pretorius leads the charge to strengthen food security across Africa, igniting hope for a brighter future. From pioneering sustainable agriculture initiatives to fostering community empowerment programs.

A Midwife’s Mission | SDG 3

Featuring: Ashu Martha Agbornyenty
Martha Agbornyenty doesn’t just deliver babies; she delivers hope in Cameroon. In this premiere episode, we share Martha’s journey to educate communities in her mission to reduce alarming maternal mortality rates. Giving life shouldn’t cost a life.

About Credo Voices

Welcome to the podcast that celebrates and amplifies the stories of extraordinary individuals driving social impact and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) around the world. In a world where social, economic, political and environmental challenges persist, it is crucial to shed light on the unsung heroes actively working towards positive change. Credo Voices provides a platform for ordinary people doing extraordinary things, showcasing their journeys, achievements, and the impact they are creating in their communities and beyond.

Building a Global Community

Through intimate interviews, we uncover the compelling stories behind their work, exploring the challenges they have faced, the lessons they have learned, and their vision for a better, more sustainable and just world. From eradicating poverty and promoting gender equality to tackling hunger and building resilient communities.

Join us on this transformative journey as we explore the stories of those turning their passion into action, creating a ripple effect of positive change in our interconnected world. Be inspired by the Credo Voices community and discover how you can drive social impact and the Global Goals.

Listen to Credo Voices, be inspired, and be an agent of change in the movement towards a better world.

Meet our Host

Awele Okigbo is the Founder and CEO of Credo Advisory, a leading strategic and development communications firm based in Abuja and Washington, DC.

For over 25 years, she has led communications teams to raise awareness, build trust, and effect change for institutions, including the United Nations, the United States Agency for International Development, the United Kingdom Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, the World Bank, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

In 2022, she was inducted into the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Goalkeepers community. As a Goalkeeper, she is part of a collective of global leaders addressing the world’s major challenges and accelerating progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals using powerful stories, data, and partnerships to highlight achievements.

In 2024 Awele Okigbo was selected as one of 50 women visionaries for the prestigious Vital Voices
Visionaries program, founded by Hillary Clinton and Madeline Albright. This fellowship recognizes emerging
women leaders tackling global challenges like gender-based violence, climate change, and economic
inequality.

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