Who is Lorna Rutto

     LORNA RUTTO,

      KENYA,

      ECOPOST, CEO

Lorna Rutto is an inspiring, multi-passionate social entrepreneur with a vision to liberate Green Africa from poverty.

Lorna is the World Economic Forum's young global leader and founder and CEO of the nonprofit Social Enterprise, which has created thousands of sustainable jobs for the marginalized population in environmental protection.

She was born in 1984 in Nakuru, Kenya. She holds a B.Com degree in Accounting from the Nazarene University of Africa, where she demonstrated outstanding leadership skills and was elected the first female student body president.

She got a job in the financial sector in 2007; However, she resigned due to her inherent need to find jobs for people living in poverty in the lower classes. She chose to work with junk because the rich or the poor did not discriminate and thus emerged in EcoPost 2010.

EcoPost recycles plastic waste to make plastic posts and lumber for other applications such as road markings, fencing, building and construction support beams, floorboards and greenhouse beams; Basically the things that were once made of wood, her company is made of plastic waste. Lorna's passion & leadership skills have made EcoPost a success.

The socio-economic and environmental impact of ecopost

EcoPost has so far created 50 direct and 2000 indirect jobs for marginalized communities, withdrawn 3.5 million kg of plastic waste from the environment and thereby saved 500 acres of forest, further reducing climate change.

Lorna Rutto has received various international awards for her exceptional and exemplary community service through her social enterprise. She was honored as the 2011 Sub-Saharan Africa Cartier recipient in Paris; She has won Safaricom, the Youth Entrepreneurship Facility, the Enablis Award, the 2010 Bid Network Nature Challenge Award in the Netherlands, the Seed Award at SI, and the Unreasonable Institute Award.

Lorna has been named in the Elite Forbes list of 20 Most Powerful Women in Africa, and in 2013, she was named one of Africa's Top Female Practitioners, along with Guardian newspaper readers.

Lorna is a highly sought-after trainer and speaker on local and international forums. She developed the Community Engagement Program, where she trains young people on various entrepreneurial opportunities and the establishment of successful businesses.