Eric Kaduru is a social entrepreneur with a passion for promoting youth entry into Uganda’s agriculture sector. After spending six years in marketing, Eric moved to Fort Portal, Uganda where he founded KadAfrica—a social enterprise that has created economic opportunity for more than 2,000 out of school girls through passion fruit farming using a proprietary curriculum training program called the KadAfrica Experience. As a farmer himself, Eric has a unique perspective on the difficulties facing Uganda’s smallholder farmers, including access to inputs and the realities of markets dominated by traders; he is committed to transforming this experience into a market-based approach to empowering out of school youth and smallholder farmers through agribusiness.

Transforming Urban Cardiovascular Health
At the 2025 Concordia Annual Summit, leaders from across sectors gathered to address one of the most pressing global health challenges: cardiovascular disease in rapidly growing urban environments. In partnership with

