The current version of Rapid Dry is a prototype, which has been tested with smallholder farmers on the UMaT campus. Sharing her journey “from rejection to resilience” at the African Youth Conference on Natural Resources and Environmental Governance, Roselyn set the stage for a panel conversation on Unlocking Climate and Green Finance for Youth-led Solutions. She honed the skills needed to turn her passion into a fundable project through capacity-building programs run by the Strategic Youth Network for Development (SYND) Ghana, organisers of the African Youth Conference on Natural Resources and Environmental Governance. Delivering a solidarity message at the conference, Dr ChiChi Aniagolu-Okoye, Regional Director, Ford Foundation office of West Africa, urged African youth to take charge of natural resource governance, describing them as the “power in the room today” driving a new era of environmental stewardship. You are not just participants in the struggle for climate change and sustainable resource governance,” she said.