Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Rolex’s new awards programme for entrepreneurs, the Young Laureates, pulled in some 600 people for the 11 November ceremony, where five people between 18 and 30 won recognition and prizes of $50,000 each for their projects.
The awards went to: Jacob Colker from the United States, Reese Fernandez from the Philippines, Nnaemeka Ikegwuonu from Nigeria, Piyush Tewari from India and Bruktawit Tigabu from Ethiopia. Their projects range from transforming volunteering for the 21st century to enabling impoverished women to create eco-ethical fashion goods, from developing interactive radio in order to promote sustainable farming, to training volunteers to provide rapid care to road accident victims and developing TV programmes to improve children’s health.
Bruktawit Tigabu’s video on her winning project: TV and children’s health
