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  1. Is on the hunt for good micro-finance biz training programs - know any?
  2. Just got $5k for our Junior Field Officers biz funds - so they can make $ for university! Need only a $2.5k balance to fully fund all biz!
  3. Back from the Mau Forest seeing REFUGE's Participatory Forest Management Project that ZanaA is supporting. Bees, trees, and crops all happy
  4. ZanaA's eco-friendly sanitary pads business chosen this weekend by Wharton's Africa Biz Forum as best biz plan in their competition!
  5. Urban pop: 300M in 1950, 1.5Bn 1990, projected 4.4Bn 2025. Urban youth as role models = key to breaking cycle of poverty for students
  6. Nearly half the world's population is younger than 25. Ya think a lot of girls are gonna need (eco-friendly) sanitary pads soon?!
  7. ZanaA gives hope to some of the poorest HIV+ caregivers: http://bit.ly/YrK1e.
  8. 1 in 3 women worldwide will be raped, beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise violated in her lifetime. We want men to also stand against this
  9. Women: perform 2/3 all labor, produce >50% world's food, own only 1% of world's assets, represent 70% of those living in absolute poverty.
  10. School's resumed! Empowerment Groups restarting. Expanding this term to more boys. Can't wait.
  11. New intern just arrived for 3 months, and Empowerment Groups start Monday. Looking forward to getting back to Kibera
  12. Elder's report from Maasai youth outreach: thankful; thru youths' qs, realized need more family bonding to raise next gen- they'll do in Dec
  13. 8 ZanaA staff +100 Maasai youth in Kajiado + 3 days Empowerment Seminar = life transformations!
  14. @women2 our start-up is of interest: low-cost eco-friendly sanitary pads for girls and women in Kenya. contact me for more info
  15. Girls in Kibera are 6x more likely than boys to be HIV+; In Kenya, 75% HIV+ youth ages 15-24 are girls. We're working to stem this trend
  16. Why manufact in Africa needs to START with eco-friendly supply chain: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article6736113.ece
  17. Latest blog from our intern about stepping out and diving in: http://bit.ly/19Dng2
  18. The sister of our intern did Sec State Hillary Clinton's hair today n she bragged about it to AFP. That's as close as we get to fame today.
  19. I get to promote ZanaA and C.K Prahalad on KISS FM, they give me nearly free ticket to see him 17/08 - winning deal! Hope 2 meet him n talk
  20. 15th Aug Kibera - participating in a TED-X event: TED for youth ideas. Showcasing our model for mentorship and biz dev't for youth