The Entrepreneurial Mind
AUGUST 28, 2014
Uganda has more than 10 million people without safe water to drink. The idea for the business came to Ku when she was a nineteen-year-old volunteer at a clinic in Uganda. Ku started her non-profit with $15,000 grant from Harvard and a donated piece of land in Kumi, Uganda where she built a ceramic factory to make water filters.
Up and Running
DECEMBER 22, 2014
When I was in high school, my friends and I set up a giving tree outside the school library, as a fundraiser for the Harambee Centre, an organization which provides, among other things, ambulatory services; and which builds schools for children in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. If you try one of these things out, let us know how it went!
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crowdSPRING Blog
SEPTEMBER 13, 2016
“In March, we met with more than 25 sanitation providers in Kenya and Uganda, and discovered that this lack of data was a universal problem,” explains gather Co-Director John Peter Archer. “That was when we decided to pivot away from toilet construction towards building an online platform.”
crowdSPRING Blog
SEPTEMBER 13, 2016
“In March, we met with more than 25 sanitation providers in Kenya and Uganda, and discovered that this lack of data was a universal problem,” explains gather Co-Director John Peter Archer. “That was when we decided to pivot away from toilet construction towards building an online platform.”
crowdSPRING Blog
SEPTEMBER 13, 2016
“In March, we met with more than 25 sanitation providers in Kenya and Uganda, and discovered that this lack of data was a universal problem,” explains gather Co-Director John Peter Archer. “That was when we decided to pivot away from toilet construction towards building an online platform.”
View from Seed
FEBRUARY 27, 2019
This past fall we did Libya, the season before that we did Uganda, and we’re going to be doing Cambodia in 2019. So how do you go about picking the country to highlight and find artists or inspirations there? Every season we pick a different country.
crowdSPRING Blog
MARCH 11, 2012
Some questioned whether the effort was over-simplifying the situation and others pointed out that Kony was no longer in Uganda. The effort, however, has not been without some controversy and social media pushback.
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