Binnie Bintou Cisse is passionate about children and girls. After a personal experience, she decided to get involved in the humanitarian field to contribute to the development of Africa. She decided to invest in educating and caring for girls in vulnerable situations.
She launched EWA (Empowering Women in Africa), an association dedicated to empowering young African girls. With her team, she fights daily to bring a smile to the faces of families who have lost all hope. Her long-term goal is to empower girls by developing their leadership skills and equipping them in IT and English so that they can adapt their skills to the demands of professional markets and be competitive. Because technology and innovation can create opportunities, this can be a real tool for promoting gender diversity in the workplace.
Binnie is also a 2018 Alumni of the Yali "Mandela Washington Fellowship" program initiated by Barack Obama, a program that earned her a Stay in the USA for leadership training. She is a certified English teacher, having completed her professional training in London.
She loves passing on knowledge. Her dream is to see all French speakers become bilingual because English opens doors. She works with 73 teachers from different backgrounds to promote English language learning throughout Africa. In 2021, she was awarded a scholarship by the British government to be trained in TESOL (Teaching Languages to Speakers of Other Languages) + Technology, a training which is part of her professional development skills.
After her training, she obtained her second Master's degree in the field of languages. Her expertise, and that of her team, has propelled her company Binnie's English training (BET) to the top, and inspired other firms to make digital an effective weapon.
Thanks to digital technology, BET is a benchmark throughout Africa and soon internationally. Binnie Bintou Cisse is one of the 88 most inspiring young leaders of 2022, and she has no intention of stopping there. Through her NGO EWA, she empowers girls in vulnerable situations through education and technical training. This year, she and her team have set up a program dedicated to unemployed African women. The aim of this program is to train a minimum of 15 girls in STEM, leadership, entrepreneurship, English and mobile employability (social media management, web writing, digital content creation).