Our Founder: Lasu Manasi
Refugee Youth Advocate, Photographer, and Executive Director leading Rise For Success.
Meet Our Founder: Lasu Manasi
Founder & Executive Director • Launched RFS in 2024
Rise For Success was launched in 2024, built upon professional skills in photography, journalism, storytelling, and filming to address representation imbalances in displacement settings.
Why I Started This Work
“As a Refugee Youth Advocate, I used storytelling to find my voice when words failed me. I founded Rise For Success to give young women and girls that same power so they can see themselves, tell their own stories, and create change.”
Having navigated the settlement since 2016, Lasu recognized that while young women face heavy socio-cultural restrictions, they possess immense creative potential when provided ethical equipment and structured guidance.