Meet our founder - The pioneer Sofonie Dala heads Multi Talents

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.

Talentos Múltiplus delivers business and markets ideas, data, analysis, and video to the world, featuring non-fiction stories with strong focus on sustainable development goals.

The startup creates Community-wide awareness campaigns that generate real business results and helps its target market leap ahead of their competitors.

Sofonie Dala is an Angolan engineer, with Master’s degree in Oil and Gas Geology from UFA State Petroleum Technological University. 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.

Like any young entrepreneur in its initial phase, she needs funding and mentoring opportunities for her startup to survive. Intending to build a corporate headquarters in Luanda, she is actively looking for sponsors, investors and partners.

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.html

Sofonie 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.

In 2020 she took the time to distribute free soybean milk to malnourished children in Angola. Malnutrition is the 7 disease that kills the most in Angola and it is estimated that 46 children die of malnutrition every day in the country. Southern and central Angola are facing one of the worst climate shocks in recent years, including alternating droughts and floods.

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

The dark side of beast cancer https://she-leads.blogspot.com/2021/10/breast-cancer-slowdown-campaign-with_26.html

Sofonie Dala created a hybrid community cooperative with a sustainable activity model that empowers women and girls living below the poverty line.

Sofonie Dala believes that women can play a pivotal role in a more sustainable future for Africa's rural communities. https://afronutri-online-angola.blogspot.com/2022/05/women-playing-pivotal-role-in-more.html

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

Many children took a long walk to reach us and learn something from us. Most of these children have never attended a school, others have been facing big challenges in their student journeys due to extreme poverty and some have never returned since the emergence of covid-19 in Angola in March 2020.

She has also been doing investigative research in the oceans in the area of fisheries since 2021.

In June 2022 she launched the SDG-14_ life below water 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

Many African women can still only dream of owning a smartphone and having access to the internet. Men, however, have long been able to surf the web. This inequality has significant political and economic consequences.

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.

Bridging the Digital Divide: Solutions by Sofonie Dala (talentosmultiplus.blogspot.com)

In 2021 she joined TFF® and started seeking all kinds of solutions to address the prevailing question: “How do we feed 10bn people on a hotter planet?”

We are delighted to officially announce the launch of our new brand campaign Thought For Food® with Sofonie Dala (tff-zero-hunger-angola.blogspot.com)

Sofonie Dala believes that poverty, environment, harmful economic systems, conflicts, and rapid population growth are the main causes of hunger.

We all know that there are populations who are suffering from the lack of food and water, with serious consequences, especially for children.

There is always someone who is hungry or thirsty and who needs us. We cannot delegate this to another. This poor person needs you, your help, your word, your commitment. We are all involved in this.

https://tff-zero-hunger-angola.blogspot.com/2021/04/though-for-food-with-sofonie-dala-zero.html

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

This short period of her life was probably one of my most defining life experiences thus far.”

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.

The finalists of the Recover Africa Youth Competition. The Competition invited young people across the region to look back at their experiences during COVID-19 and depict them through works of art and innovation.

If there's been anything impactful, educative and inspiring last year, it's the AFC 2021. The Annual Convention has demonstrated the incredible resilience, dedication and power that farmers, producers and inventors possess. It was wonderful getting to know so many change makers across the world.

As a result sofonie Dala was invited to exhibit her products at Africa FairTrade Convention 2021 and speak to a wide international audience.

https://talentosmultiplus.blogspot.com/2021/07/remembering-7th-africa-fairtrade.html

Project Stronger than Covid-19

Congratulations!

Sofonie Dala have completed the UNICEF COVID Challenge and have earned her international certificate!

In May 2020 UNICEF launched the Covid-19 Youth Challenge across Africa. She applied and won!

She got certified in design thinking as she developed products, services and solutions to the challenges faced by people in her community like hunger, misinformation & trust, depression, income insecurity and stalled learning.

Sofonie Dala received a certificate of participation from UNICEF, acknowledging her positive contribution in the fight against this pandemic.

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.

https://sofoniedala.blogspot.com/2020/07/congratulations-sofonie-dala-was.html?spref=tw

The coronavirus, which causes the disease known as Covid-19, has killed thousands of people across the world and upended the lives and work of billions of others still lucky to count themselves alive. Governments across the globe have responded by imposing emergency rule and nationwide ‘lockdowns’, which force people to stay in their homes in a bid to slow down the spread of the virus.

In the next 5 years Sofonie Dala intends to create a community-based cooperative with a sustainable activity model that empowers women who live below the poverty line. By 2030, she hopes to empower and transform the lives of 50% of the 4 million illiterates who are left behind in the digital world in Angola.

She wants to ensure all girls have access to a quality and safe education by dismantling the barriers imposed by Covid-19, poverty,and gender inequality.

https://she-leads.blogspot.com/2022/09/happy-international-literacy-day.html

In the long run, her startup will help limit the ecological problems caused by disposable menstrual pads thrown into rivers and on the streets of rural areas where there is no municipal garbage collection.

Looking at the high unemployment and dropout rate within Angolan communities, Sofonie Dala sees her company as unique in solving these problems and contributing to the development of the economy.

Her aim is to break ground and have a big factory that can manufacture millions of reusable products and menstrual pads for women and girls, distribute to businesses, schools and health centers and etc, in the next 5 years.