Gone Rural and Gone Rural boMake are venturing into something new. Over the last week, I have been searching for models and similar structures to no avail. Even though, through my “irregular internet searches” and phone calling stakeholders, I have found other fair trade and social business organizations that have created their own nonprofit, there [...]

Every day, we come to Malendela’s farm, to the Gone Rural office to work on our respective projects (the MBAs from the U.S.). The office is two stories and we are on the second floor. There is a huge window on one side that looks out onto the Ezulwini mountains. The sun sets each day [...]

So why did I leave Paris? A large part of me didn’t want to leave. I was making great friends there and was quite literally having the time of my life. It seemed almost illegal to have that much fun and be so happy. But I knew as soon as I applied, [...]

Before coming to Swaziland, I had pictured a country in misery – dry dirt roads with shacks that house worn out bodies drawn thin from disease, from AIDS. Swaziland has the highest HIV/AIDS rate in the world. A startling 40 % of adults are HIV positive and the average life expectancy has now [...]

BIO: Ling Ling is passionate about the creation and growth of businesses for economic development in Africa and Asia. She has worked both in the public and private sector in business analysis, financial services, microfinance, information technology, systems design, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting, microenterprise development, value chain development, and biofuels. Ling Ling has [...]