Ashaba Faridah is a Ugandan born Commercial Pilot, TEDx Speaker, Motivational Speaker, UN Women Model, Public Speaking Coach and Philanthropist.
She is the Founder and CEO of Bambino Life Foundation, an organization that focuses on promoting girl child education & empowerment, creating awareness about children living with disabilities and providing a sustainable environment to children living in orphanages.
In education, Ashaba excelled in arts subjects. At A’level she passed history, economics, geography and fine art.
“Since childhood, I have known where I come from. I hate stressing my mother. So, I dreamt and lived within my means,” she says.
Ashaba envisioned being a chef exploring local dishes and international cuisines or becoming an interior designer because she loves to beautify places.
However, in a remarkable turn of events, her dreams and life changed. Now she lives in a different world.
Ashaba believes in breaking stereotypes. In September 2018, she became the Director of STEM Queens Uganda, an initiative that encourages young girls to participate in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.
In that same year, she also became the Chairperson of Global Goodwill Ambassadors (GGA), Uganda Chapter to promote great opportunities for those in need.
In 2019, she was appointed as the international spokesperson for the Global Goodwill Ambassadors and a spokeswoman for the World Youth Summit Dubai Act 2019.
At the beginning of 2020, Ashaba Faridah was named among the Top 40 outstanding people in Uganda under 40 years of age by New vision, a national newspaper.
Her face and name were plastered all over New York Times Square, Westfield world trade centre, The Economist, NASDAQ with over five million impressions on International Women’s Day.
“I could not believe I was featuring alongside powerful women like Dr Christy Johnson, the first female African American deputy director at The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), among others,” she says.
During her TEDx talk in Kigali Rwanda, hosted by the European Union, Ashaba emphasised that girls should focus on who they want to become, instead of what the society expects of them.
