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James Madhier - Canadian, North America

2017 Winner | | Canadian

Rainmaker Enterprise is an award-winning, scalable and climate adaptive social venture committed to combating deforestation, food insecurity, water scarcity, chronic poverty, women and youth unemployment among other cross-sectional issues in rural South Sudan through provision of clean water using clean solar-energy. The initiative will install solar-powered water pumps and drip-irrigation systems across villages in South Sudan to achieve these objectives. The rest site installation will be in Tonj, South Sudan in December 2017.

I am James Thuch Madhier, I was born in Tonj, South Sudan, where I lived until age 15 before fleeing to Kakuma refugee camp in Northern Kenya as an unaccompanied minor due to the deadly civil war in Sudan. Amidst daunting challenges in the refugee camp, I finished high school and came to the University of Toronto in December 2013 through the World University Service of Canada, a sponsorship program for exceptional refugee students around the world. I founded Rainmaker Enterprise to address some of the systemic issues that forced me to flee my home country as a child.

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