Edward in India with the MBA Enterprise Corps
By kareem • Published on March 23rd, 2010 • Leave a Comment
Hi all,
Edward Hobart, our newest MBA Business Advisor has landed in India! He’ll be working with the Grassroots Business Fund, whose mission is to create bottom-line solutions to poverty by helping grassroots organizations drive economic growth and social change. He’ll be performing due diligence analysis on GBF’s various clients in India while analyzing the businesses’ [...]
Tags: Grassroots, India
Leeat on her way to Tanzania
By kareem • Published on February 4th, 2010 • Leave a Comment
Leeat Weinstock, our newest MBAs Without Borders volunteer business advisor is on her way to Tanzania to work with HAI and Honeycare, two local businesses seeking support in financial management and strategic planning. Her six month assignment begins February 8th and we wish her the best of luck!
Founded in 2007, HAI is a cocoa exporting [...]
Tags: Dar Es Salaam, hai, honeycare, Tanzania
Go Girl! Kibera
By elayna • Published on May 28th, 2009 • Leave a Comment
I’ve been in Nairobi for almost two weeks, working with K-Rep Development Agency (KDA), whose mission is “…to build the field of microfinance through the development of appropriate microfinance products and services to create economic opportunities for low- income people and contribute to eliminating poverty.” The agency works to achieve this mission by [...]
Tags: Kenya, Micro Finance, Nairobi
Taking Quality Control seriously
By Gonzalo • Published on January 30th, 2009 • Leave a Comment
Taking Quality Control seriously: Godza is the Quality Controller at Streetwires. He is a young man that started to work at the company on October, 2004, the first job that he had was artist and was promoted to his actual position on 2007, due to his willingness to learn and grow in the company.
Tags: Artist, cape town, Craft, south africa, streetwires, wire and bead
Report from South Africa
By Gonzalo • Published on January 9th, 2009 • Leave a Comment
On July 2008, Gonzalo started to work with three craft companies in South Africa; Streetwires (www.streetwires.co.za), Kunye (www.kunye.org), and Mielie (www.mielie.com). During his assignment, he has been helping these companies on different issues related to the business and marketing. He helped the owners and managers of these companies to draft their Marketing Strategy Plan that helped the companies to focus their businesses on the markets needs identifying their strengths and weakness.
Tags: cape town, Grassroots, Kunye, Mielie, south afrcia, streetwires, upliftment, Wire art