Bundubags is a bag company with a difference. Bundubags began with a creative idea, a love of contemporary African design and a heart for African women. Below is an interview with founder Colleen Thompson. How and when was BunduBags formed? How is your product produced? BunduBags was formed at the beginning of 2012, when I [...]
After watching a video of African children suffering from parasites in their feet, Asher Collie couldn’t just just sit and watch this continuing, she instant knew that she could help African men and women by teaching them a simple trade—how to make shoes. You did your first trip to Uganda and Zambia in spring 2010, what was it that sparked the idea to start Sole [...]
By: Lova Rakotomalala An article by BuzzFeed that recently went viral with over 1.6 million Facebook shares, highlighted 21 pictures that will restore your faith in humanity. Unfortunately, Africa and Africans were absent from the piece. Despite efforts to change existing narratives, the African continent is still widely known as a leading recipient of international aid and the place where international NGOs come to ‘save’ the [...]
By: Akhila Vijayaraghavan Chocolate like coffee is a multi-billion dollar industry. It is also provides some very important CSR and sustainability issues for companies that deal with chocolate. Chocolate has its origins with the cacao tree, native to Central and South America. Today however, about 70% of the world’s cacao is grown in Africa. The history of chocolate goes back to the [...]
By: Ryan Chamberlain If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em…then beat ‘em. That’s one way of defining the strategy of Greenlight Apparel: Join a traditionally wicked business specifically to effect change from within. The global garment industry has been fraught with ethical production problems for a long time: from the mass pollution of dyes, bleach, and solvents, to sweatshops, [...]
Kai Coffee is a fair trade and ethically sourced coffee. They have a purpose and passion to bring kids out of poverty. Kai Coffee donates 100% of its net profit to non-profit organizations dedicated to helping children in need. Kai Coffee is not just a regular brew, it’s coffee with a story. Hear what the founder Sean Naus has to [...]
By Malaka Gharib In honor of Thrive, our new food security campaign, I decided to dig up some photos of farmers and farm workers in Africa. It may surprise you that many of these workers are hardworking women who — in addition to raising their children and caring for their families — till the fields, sow the seeds and basically, do all the [...]
Solar Sister eradicates energy poverty by empowering women with economic opportunity. We combine the breakthrough potential of solar technology with a deliberately woman-centered direct sales network to bring light, hope and opportunity to even the most remote communities in rural Africa. Describe the process when you invest in the women in a rural village? Solar Sister is bringing a grassroots, women [...]
By: Ndesanjo Macha Africa: What’s Your Story? is the latest A24 Media project that seeks to highlight the common problems that the people of Africa share, and also promote transparency and accountability. Through an interactive online social forum, Africa: What’s Your Story? gives Africans the opportunity to unite in empathy for each other as they share ideas and solutions to their problems. In addition, the project [...]
Written by Abdoulaye Bah Translated by: Lova Rakotomalala Lack of access to care for HIV positive people has been well documented on the African continent. Many initiatives strive to show that things could improve with collective effort, and among them is the Drug Resource Enhancement against AIDS and Malnutrition (DREAM) program. DREAM was created in 2002 by the Sant’Egidio Community in Mozambique, and takes a comprehensive approach to [...]
