Impact Lab 4: A Round up!

World Pulse’s Last Impact Lab for 2025 was held on December 11, 2025, at 2 PM UTC via Zoom. The event is an innovative offering designed to elevate community-driven initiatives through advisory and peer collaboration. The event brought together six participants to engage with a panel of four experts in a collaborative engagement to understand ways to scale, enhance, and sustain the impact they are making on ground.

Our six participants came from all over the world.

1. Eniola Oluranti, from Nigeria, is working to build pathways to education for every child. She hopes to reach 200 underserved children in rural and remote schools through direct support, research and motivation, and advocacy and sensitization.
2. Hawraa Ghandour, from Lebanon, hopes to build a global sisterhood that rises from personal pain, shared strength, and the relentless hope for peace — especially for women and children living under the shadows of war. She hopes to support 1000 women, especially mothers, in areas affected by armed conflict.
3. Kat Haber, from the US, is on a road trip of 13,287 miles using an EV to educate people on the benefits of using EVs for the environment, as well as how it can safeguard the planet against climate change. She hopes to reach 4000 people with her critical message: We can power our lives without poisoning our planet.
4. Keturah Shammah, from Nigeria, is working to keep girls in class by preventing them from dropping out before completing primary school. Targeting 15 schools across Jos, Nigeria, Keturah focuses aims to reach 500 girls aged 10 to 18 years, who are at risk of dropping out, by engging key actors to drive behavioural and systemic change.
5. Solange Swiri, from Cameroon, is aiming to provide sanitary product banks to communities in Cameroon affected by crisis, conflict, and poverty, promoting menstrual health and dignity. She hopes to reach 5000 vulnerable girls and women who have limited access to SRHR supplies.
6. Veronica Ngum Ndi, from Cameroon, is working to support the lives of children living with sickle cell anemia in Cameroon. She supports their access to routine medication, education, and small income generating activities and reach at least 2000 such children.

Our panelists, Chloe Gold, Faiza Farooq, Janki Ramesh, and Sharmin Prince offered guidance and meaningful feedback to support these initiatives on ground. The panelists came in with suggestions specific to each community member’s work and intention for their progress, and offered directions and resources they could look into as they cultivate pathways to create lasting and meaningful impact on ground. This Impact Lab involved a powerful demonstration of both, women’s resilience and leadership, and resilience. One of our participants had come in late to the session, after an area near her had been bombed. She was determined and dedicated to making her presentation, and the participants, audience, and panellists demonstrated compassion for her and held her story with grace. Alongside the live feedback within the Impact Lab, our community also engaged actively, providing feedback for each initiative on World Pulse.

The session was beautifully stewarded by Rasika Sundaram!

Watch the recording here: https://youtu.be/mtpM39JK9zw