Transformify
APRIL 15, 2016
Despite Kenya has been named as the fasted growing payments market in Africa, there is still a lot to be done to develop the local business angel community. The capital of Kenya, Nairobi, is a vibrant city offering various resources for young start – ups, including accelerator 88MPH and incubator i-Hub.
thebarefootvc
DECEMBER 16, 2011
Women Rising: Microfinance institutions have known for years that women have higher repayment rates than men and that women are more likely to invest the borrowed capital back into their families and local communities. The era of the patriarch is nearing an end.
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Feld Thoughts
NOVEMBER 3, 2017
Amy went to Tanzania and Kenya in 2009 with TNC to increase capacity of TNC non-profit partners. Heather Tallis , TNC’s Global Managing Director and Lead Scientist for Strategy Innovation, generously participated in our August 2017 Anchor Point Fellowship in Global Leadership Conference.
Up and Running
JANUARY 14, 2015
Penda improves health care in Kenya. Penda is a social enterprise: a for-profit company with the mission of improving the lives of people in the community, in this case via its affordable health clinics. Koczela is enthusiastic about the entrepreneurial spirit in Kenya: “You are working from seven a.m. to nine p.m.
Hearpreneur
AUGUST 19, 2015
When you support that platform with inspirational and informative subject matter that helps guide people along the way, and then offer them a community of service providers who can help round out their team—well, that’s the ticket. Karibu Markets began after a trip I took to Kenya in early 2014. That’s massive.
Transformify
JULY 21, 2019
In 2006, I volunteered in an orphanage in Nairobi and Mombasa in Kenya. It was fulfilling for me to see people developing their leadership skills by leading an employee resource group. The first time I volunteered, it was in a hospital in France as a teenager. Since then, I embarked on humanitarian missions around the world.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 10, 2016
As a white person I cannot accept that the GOP candidate for office was the leading voice in the United States for the “birther movement,” which questioned the citizenship of the president of the United States because his father was from Kenya. How can we as a community not speak up? After Eric Garner? Trayvon Martin? Freddie Gray?
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