Fredrick Moll
Fredrick Moll, a Kenyan social entrepreneur founded Stand Up Shout Out (SUSO) on a simple premise: equip young people with the tools to generate their own opportunities rather than wait for them. What began as a weekend mentorship circle in Nairobi has grown into a nationwide network of training hubs that blend entrepreneurship boot camps with community-service challenges. To date, SUSO has guided more than 15,000 teens and twenty-somethings through hands-on courses in digital skills, agribusiness, and micro-enterprise finance, programs that have seeded hundreds of side hustles and lifted scores of alumni into full-time self-employment.
Moll, now CEO, runs SUSO with the rigor of a start-up accelerator and the heart of a youth club. He brokers scholarships with tech firms, funnels graduates into venture-fund pitch days, and insists that each cohort design a social-impact project before collecting their completion certificates. Recent cohorts have launched solar phone-charging kiosks in Turkana and recycled-plastic furniture workshops in Mombasa, proof that empowerment can scale without migrating to the city. Looking ahead, Moll is rolling out a mobile learning app to reach remote counties and mapping partnerships to replicate the SUSO model across East Africa. His goal remains constant: turn the continent’s youth bulge into a generation of resilient, self-directed change-makers.