Amina Mohamed

Amina Mohamed has always had a passion for photography. In 2018, Amina designed an initiative called Cameras For Girls to teach photography and business skills to women and girls in her home country of Uganda. She provides a camera to keep + a 4-phase skills-based curriculum for girls and women who want to become journalists and photographers in male-dominated Africa but face gender-based barriers to employment. She has taught 64 young women via an in-person workshop in Uganda, 15 in Tanzania as of recently, and 10 women online in South Africa during Covid, and 74% now have full-time jobs in journalism, photography, and communications-related jobs, but more importantly, they are confident young women ready to take on challenges that define gender-inequality in this sector.