DGGF Conference
Closing the SME Finance Gap:
Empowering Youth & Women Entrepreneurs in Frontier Markets
Khadidiatou Nakoulima
Khadidiatou Nakoulima
Khady Nakoulima, runs NEST, a network of medical centers that provides quality medical services to women and children from low-middle income families in West Africa. She started the company in 2009, with her brother and father, a pediatrician with 35 years of experience in Senegal.
Before coming back to Senegal, she spent 3 months as an operations intern, at Lifespring, a chain of maternity hospitals in India that inspired the project NEST. NEST is now the only organization in Senegal to have received the certification ISO 9001:2015 on the entire scope of activity.
Khady is also the Deputy Treasury Secretary of the Private Health Sector Alliance in Senegal.