Speakers

Maimouna Ba is born on 23 January 1996 in Dori, capital of the Séno province in the Sahel region of Burkina Faso, and her friends call her " Maman sahélienne! " She is 27 years old and she has become a benchmark in her area for the fight she is waging to support women in their quest for resilience and the preservation of their dignity in the face of an extremely difficult security situation for them and their children. She has a degree in marketing and management from the Institut Burkinabè des Arts et Métiers, but she has been immersed in humanitarian and philanthropic work with the people of the Sahel region since the security crisis broke out in that part of the country in 2016. Her work with the association “Femmes pour la dignité du Sahel” (Women for Dignity in the Sahel), which she chairs, won her the Young Activists Summit 2023 prize at the United Nations, and she decided to use this prize to set up the “Maman Sahélienne foundation”, which will start operating in 2024.