The Humanity Campaign » venture capital http://www.humanitycampaign.org Investing in social entrepreneurs working to reduce poverty and hunger in the U.S. and abroad Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:00:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 What We’ll Be Doing in Kenya & Uganda http://www.humanitycampaign.org/blog/what-well-be-doing-in-kenya-uganda/ http://www.humanitycampaign.org/blog/what-well-be-doing-in-kenya-uganda/#comments Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:57:00 +0000 admin tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4361337679034019638.post-1411490497988066997 From June 25th through July 5th I'll be in Kenya and Uganda with Jess Shorland and Bob Phoenix. The purpose of our trip is to:
  1. Visit the non-profits that The Humanity Campaign and iContact have provided funds to in order to see and document how they are using the funds and to learn about their operations and needs;
  2. Find additional qualified non-profits for The Humanity Campaign to invest in;
  3. Find companies with unique innovative technologies that address local social needs and for-profit companies with a social mission to invest in;
  4. Learn as much as we can about conflict resolution, IDP camps, food and water distribution, rural health care provision, and rural primary and secondary education; and
  5. Dance, dance, and dance some more like Matt from Where The Hell is Matt!
On our first day in Nairobi we'll be meeting with Amon Anderson from the Acumen Fund and Mary Muhara from Africa Rising. Amon is a friend of mine from back when we went to UNC together and from when he was in charge of the entrepreneurship minor at UNC. Mary is the in-country local representative for Africa Rising who vets the non-profits that Africa Rising contributes to. Mary will be taking us to visit TULIP Nairobi a program supported by AR. TULIP "strives to deliver hope for girls subjected to poverty and its vices: teenage pregnancies, HIV/AIDS, drugs, crime, and prostitution." On day two in Nairobi we'll be visiting with Carolina for Kibera. CFK works in Kibera, a slum in North Nairobi to "promote youth leadership and ethnic and gender cooperation in Kibera through sports, young women's empowerment, and community development." CFK was started in 2001 by a UNC students Kim Chapman and Rye Barcott. Rye has since completed five years of service as an officer in the Marines and completed a MBA/MPA joint degree from HBS and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, which is what I'd love to be doing in a few years. They operate a soccer league, medical clinic (Tabitha Clinic), and a reproductive health and women's rights center (Binti Pamoja). I'm so excited to be seeing their operation first hand. On day three, we'll be flying from Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta Airport to Entebbe, Uganda. We'll stay the night in Kampala with our friend Louis Ntale, the brother-in-law of Duke's Christopher Kigongo, and then wake up early to catch the five or six hour Posta Uganda bus from Kampala to Gulu and traverse once again the adventurous roads of rural Uganda. Upon arriving in Gulu we'll be meeting up with Andrew Morgan of Invisible Children. Over the past ...

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