The world has taken notice

Zannah Bukar Mustapha with students — Maiduguri

Aurora Humanitarians 2019 — Yerevan, Armenia

Zannah Mustapha in Maiduguri, Borno State

CNN Hero of the Year 2021

UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award 2017 — First Nigerian laureate

Community engagement — Northeast Nigeria

Field operations — Borno State, 2014

Students at Future Prowess Foundation school

A school where every child matters — 2019

Zannah Bukar Mustapha — Founder, Future Prowess Foundation

A large harvest of red onions freshly pulled from the field, piled under a shaded area ready for sorting and distribution.

A worker tends to rows of young vegetable seedlings in a net-covered greenhouse equipped with drip irrigation lines.

Women harvest ripe tomatoes and kale inside a Future Prowess greenhouse, with one woman holding freshly picked produce.

A group of women tend to tall rows of pepper plants inside a large shade-net greenhouse as part of the Foundation's greenhouse agriculture programme.

Three women in matching maroon hijabs work among lush pepper plants inside a greenhouse, tending crops under the Foundation's women's livelihood programme.

Participants of the greenhouse agriculture programme tend to rows of pepper plants inside a shaded tunnel greenhouse.

A woman carefully tends to pepper plants in a greenhouse, engaged in the Foundation's greenhouse agriculture and women's livelihood training programme.

Three women collect ripe tomatoes into a green harvest crate inside a drip-irrigated greenhouse.

Wide-angle interior view of the Foundation's greenhouse showing dense rows of tomato plants growing on black mulch beds with supporting strings.

A woman's hand picks a ripe red pepper from a greenhouse plant, capturing the moment of harvest from the Foundation's greenhouse agriculture programme.

A group of women work together tending tomato plants in a greenhouse, demonstrating collective participation in the Foundation's agriculture programme.

Two women inspect and tend to growing tomato and pepper plants inside a net-covered greenhouse under the Foundation's livelihood programme.

A newly completed two-storey school building constructed with NEDC support stands ready to serve displaced children in Northeast Nigeria.

Workers complete finishing touches on the grounds of a newly constructed school building, with a communications tower visible in the background.