Sofonie Dala is an African digital entrepreneur, philanthropist and activist who is founder and CEO of the startup Talentos Multiplus (https://talentosmultiplus.blogspot.com/), she was born in Luanda on October 31, 1991.
Sofonie Dala is an Angolan engineer, with Master’s degree in Oil and Gas Geology from UFA State Petroleum Technological University-Russia. She is also the winner of student awards. Additionally, she holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Media Management and Leadership from Rhodes University, South Africa.
Dala has strong focus on sustainable development goals, is passionate about communicating the development projects and believes that if we want to achieve the 2030 Agenda, we should communicate in ways and languages everyone can understand.
Sofonie Dala is best known for being singled out from over 3000 candidates to represent Angola at the 3rd youth capacity building workshop promoted by African Union/Centre for girls and women's education in Africa. The event took place in Accra, Ghana 2019.
In her closing remarks, Dr Rita Bissoonauth requested the participants to take up their roles as advocates for girls and young women to access and complete their education. A certificate was awarded at the end of the capacity-building workshop.
The workshop brought together 49 young participants representing several African Union Member States.
https://sofoniedala.blogspot.com/2020/03/report-of-3rd-youth-capacity-held-in.htmlSofonie Dala has a big passion for women and girls education in Africa. She wants to ensure all girls have access to a quality and safe education by dismantling the barriers imposed by Covid-19, poverty, teen-pregnancy, child marriage, discrimination, racism and gender inequality.
She intends to create a community cooperative with a sustainable activity model that empowers women living below the poverty line.
Happy Menstrual Hygiene Day 2022 - Making Menstruation a normal fact of life by 2030 (she-leads.blogspot.com)
Her work built on a culture of smart strategic thinking and creative innovation, inspires and guides youth action for both individual and systems change that enables sustainable lifestyles.
Free distribution of soybean milk for malnourished children - Sustainable Lifestyle Challenge by Sofonie Dala (tff-zero-hunger-angola.blogspot.com)
In July 2022, the founder of the digital Startup "Talentos Multiplus" won the 1st Edition of the Young Innovator Award “The Angola we want by 2030”, in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship category promoted by the partnership developed between the Ministry of Public Administration, Labor and Social Security - MAPTSS, INEFOP, UNDP, UNICEF with funding opportumity from the Royal Norwegian Embassy.
Named "Ladies Without Plastic", the project aims to advocate for behavioural change to reduce earth vulnerability to climate change and global warming from disposable sanitary pads. Work on women liberation against harmful restrictions surrounding menstruation. The project will produce washable and reusable menstrual pads, which help protect the environment.
Sofonie Dala is not only the founder of the Startup Multi Talents, she is also a multi-skilled expert that has mastered and developed a large series of projects and campaigns covering about 10 of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals, with successful assignments in Angola.
She is an inspiring, influential person raising global awareness of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the need for accelerated action. She uses her unique global platforms to raise ambition around the SDGs and reach the most vulnerable first. https://she-leads.blogspot.com/2022/08/innovating-education-in-angola-2022.html
She reaches vulnerable out of school ladies and sustainable development practitioners seeking knowledge on goal-based development so together we can build sustainable and resilient communities.
The Breast_Cancer campaign, developed by Sofonie Dala in Angola, will offer hope to women "who are part of the risk group, and who otherwise would not have the means to resort to a specialized assessment. With this campaign we want girls and women to "protect themselves and be ambassadors for the prevention of breast cancer with their families, friends and in their communities.
https://she-leads.blogspot.com/2021/10/breast-cancer-slowdown-campaign-with.html
Sofonie Dala created a hybrid community cooperative with a sustainable activity model that empowers women and girls living below the poverty line.
In 2020 she launched "She Leads Angola - cloud platform for out of school women and girls including disabled children.
On this hybrid environment, she offers non-formal training that helps individuals gain a comprehensive understanding of the societal transformations needed to achieve the SDGs.
She uses IBM technology, specifically robotic processes automation (RPA) to solve the world's most pressing challenges such as education, climate change, child abuse and child marriage. https://she-leads.blogspot.com/2022/03/we-are-pleased-to-announce-launch-of.html
''BabyScream'' IBM RPA Anti-harassment chatbot to End Child Marriage and Abuse.
https://sofoniedala.blogspot.com/2022/04/wow-we-are-delighted-to-announce-second.html
She launched the ladies without plastic project - where she advocates for behavioral change to reduce earth vulnerability to climate change and global warming from disposable sanitary pads, at the same time mobilising women and girls to switch back to the use of reusable sanitary pads and napkins.
The project will produce and distribute washable and reusable products, which help protect the environment. https://she-leads.blogspot.com/2021/12/live-congratulations-we-are-celebrating.html
Through her afronutri project she identifies women in the community who are most in need, and helps them by providing training and equipment to process and sell non-timber forest products and generate their own income.
https://afronutri-online-angola.blogspot.com/2022/05/women-playing-pivotal-role-in-more.html
This program showed the involvement of vulnerable women in the economic growth of rural areas and the power they have in promoting and transforming sustainable food systems to prevent climate change. https://afronutri-online-angola.blogspot.com/2022/08/congratulations-grand-finale-you-eat.html
By opening up new opportunities for women, Sofonie helps them to develop new streams of income, which helps to lift themselves out of poverty.
In August-September 2020, she launched Africa Educates Her Campaign Angola, a project that aims to bring all girls back to school during and after covid19. To date, she has collected information from hundreds of girls and women as well as mobilized them and their families to return to school. https://she-leads.blogspot.com/2021/09/congratulations-happy-first-anniversary.html
Remembering the last day of Africa Educates Her Campaign - Angola with Sofonie Dala (updated) (she-leads.blogspot.com)
https://she-leads.blogspot.com/2021/09/coming-soon-first-anniversary-of.html
She has also been doing investigative research in the oceans in the area of fisheries since 2021, and in June 2022 she launched the SDG-14_Trimethylamine platform on which she periodically publishes her campaigns and scientific research work on marine life.
https://formula-blue-sofonie.blogspot.com/2022/06/live-world-oceans-day-2022.html
Sofonie Dala works with those marginalized groups who lack access to digital technologies and knowledge, skills and competencies required to navigate them. https://she-leads.blogspot.com/2022/04/we-introd
Sofonie Dala has the opportunity to bring their voices, ideas and solutions to the forefront of this diverse and valuable programme to enable lasting change for local and global food systems.
SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE - TRANSFORMING FOOD SYSTEM- ANGOLA
https://sofoniedala.blogspot.com/2021/10/live-welcome-to-youth-world-food-day-by.html
We celebrate next generation leader Sofonie Dala from Angola, for starting raising awareness about issues around consumerism and over-consumption and the sustainability of lifestyles.
Currently, her major task is to develop a simplified systems map to grasp and visualize the interconnections of different challenges: poverty in rural, local communities, education, malnutrition in children, agriculture and the role of governments and big corporates, all being part of the Angolan food system.
In July 2022 she launched her new campaign ''Pride - Embrancing diversity-LGBTQ in Angola''. The analysis focused on whether people around Angola think that homosexuality should be accepted by society or not. The full question wording was, “Angola has decriminalized homosexuality. What's your opinion?
Join the campaign here: Other_SDGs| LGBTQ | Diversity Angola - By Sofonie Dala: The grand finale| We are celebrating the successful completion of LGBTQ campaign in Angola, by Sofonie Dala (wegotthisangola.blogspot.com)
In October 2021 she won a certificate of recognition by the UN Environment Program for promoting the 17 SDGs and inspiring girls and women to live sustainable lifestyles in favour of the environment. https://sofoniedala.blogspot.com/2021/10/key-take-away-from-aoa-for-sustainable.html
In just 2 years she reached a large audience and became the subject of significant media attention. Lately, her outstanding digital platform has been reaching the list of top finalists in the international competitions.
https://talentosmultiplus.blogspot.com/2021/07/remembering-7th-africa-fairtrade.html
As the impact of the lockdown, adopted to mitigate the coronavirus pandemic, has led Angola to fall into the grip of poverty and famine, I decided start Philanthropic Activities in order to support the most vulnerable people specially those affected by Covid- 19. This is to enable the poor have something to eat and also stay indoors.
#Envision2030
Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being
Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production
Diversity - LGBT
The other 7 you can find partially here in these links:
https://sustainablelifestyle-angola.blogspot.com/2022/01/key-takeaways-from-anatomy-of-action.html
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