WE INVITED FUNTO BOROFFICE FOUNDER AND CEO OF CHANJA DATTI LTD. WE DEEP DIVE INTO AFRICA’S WASTE MANAGEMENT ISSUE. WE EXPLORE AT LENGTH THE DIFFERENT OUTLOOKS IN COLLABORATION, LAID EMPHASIS ON THE URGENCY AND EXPLORE THE WORK BEING DONE AT CHANJA DATTI LTD IN SOLVING AFRICA’S WASTE MANAGEMENT ISSUES STARTING FROM LAGOS.
Bio Funto Boroffice
Funto Boroffice is the founder/CEO of award-winning Chanja Datti Ltd, a waste collection & recycling social enterprise dedicated to transforming the waste in her environment to value and creating jobs. Prior to starting Chanja Datti, she spent 3 years as a Senior Aide to Nigeria’s Honorable Minister of Power covering Investments, Finance and donor Relations, and before that, 17 years gaining global financial, strategy and project improvement experience - 12 of which was as a GE executive in the U.S, where she was a Vice President, working in the largest GE Capital Americas business. She graduated with a Master’s degree in Financial Management from Pace University’s Lubin School of Business in New York and has a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and Finance from Northeastern University in Boston where she graduated cum laude (with honours).
She is a founding member and Vice President of the Recycling Association of Nigeria (RAN), founder of Initiative for the Advancement of Waste Management in Africa (aka W.A.S.T.E Africa), a Fellow of the Waste Management Society of Nigeria and an alumni of the several prestigious local and international programs and sits on several boards. She was recognized in 2021 by Global Citizen.org as one of 11 Change-making Africans that the world needs to know about, recognized by CNBC Rising Woman Africa series as one of 31 African women leaders in 2021 and winner of the 2021 WE Empower UN SDG Challenge. In 2023, Chanja Datti Ltd came in as 1st Runners up in the Afri-Plastics Challenge, and the 2023 ACT NOW Award for Impact from Stiftung Manager Ohnegrenzen.
