Jangala
Rachel Karikari is a seasoned professional specializing in corporate partnerships and advocacy, currently serving as the Senior Corporate Partnerships Manager at Jangala since June 2023. Previously, Rachel held multiple roles at Comic Relief from January 2020 to July 2023, focusing on cross-organizational management for charity partnerships with major corporations, as well as managing grants for malaria programs and leading impact reporting. Prior to that, Rachel worked at The Alliance for Reproductive Health Rights from November 2017 to January 2020, demonstrating a commitment to community advocacy and ethical storytelling. Rachel has also contributed as a research and communications officer, implementing community-based assessments to improve healthcare quality. Rachel’s early career included positions at the Ubora Institute and as a project consultant for USAID. Rachel holds a Master of Science in Global Public Health & Policy from Queen Mary University of London, and a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Human Biology from Aston University.
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Jangala
Jangala is a technology not-for-profit on a mission to connect marginalised and underserved people in communities globally to the internet - from healthcare clinics in the Himalayas, refugee camps in Kenya to schools in remote parts of India, Uganda and Colombia. We also deploy our Wi-Fi systems to support emergency relief workers and communities in humanitarian disasters, such as the recent Türkiye and Syria earthquakes. To date we’ve connected over 100,000 people with our easy to use award-winning technology. Our goal is to connect millions of people and communities to the internet enabling them to rise out of poverty, recover from disaster and for all of us to benefit from a more inclusive, equitable world. Jangala designs, manufactures and globally deploys our self-designed and self-developed products Big Box and Get Box from our base in the UK. These small portable Wi-Fi connectivity systems are easy to use and can transform any form of internet connectivity into scalable high-quality Wi-Fi. Big Box and Get Box eliminate the need for costly technical expertise making it easy to set-up Wi-Fi wherever it is needed. Proud to be Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge Winner; Clifford Chance SDG Award Winner 2022; IEEE Connecting the Unconnected Winner 2022; World Food Programme Humanitarian Innovator Accelerator Finalists 2023.