How to be an impact business.
Channel: LET'S CREATE AFRICA TV
Date: 2019-01-28

Robert Karanja is an experienced Social Entrepreneur with over 18 years of experience in program management, enterprise development and strategy across the African continent.

Robert spent the bulk of his career as a USAID contractor based in Nairobi but with responsibility and management of regional trade initiatives that focused on expanding the scope, volume and value of export products from East African countries into the United States market under the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA).

He has also previously managed Kellogg Foundation funded programs in Southern Africa (South Africa, Lesotho, Mozambique) based out of Johannesburg where he served as the Regional Director on programs that were designed to develop the growth of the cultural industries sector in the region.

More recently, Robert was the National Director at Habitat for Humanity Kenya where he managed an innovative housing microfinance program designed to provide Kenyans with incremental housing loans to be used in the provision of decent housing. This award winning program has received recognition from Habitat for Humanity as a model to be replicated globally.

Prior to joining The B Team, Robert set up and ran a boutique consulting firm in Nairobi providing market entry strategy advisory services to international firms entering the East African market.

Robert studied Entrepreneurship at the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George, British Columbia, Canada and also holds an MBA in Strategic Management from Moi University.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-karanja-0898671a/

At Let's Create Africa,
WE CREATE OPPORTUNITIES

  Let' s Create Africa(https://letscreateafrica.com/) is B-Corp Certified Social enterprise leveraging on Impact Communication to build community businesses that drive social change within zero-low income communities. We do this by co-creating community based social enterprises and providing them with peer-to-peer training, mentorship, market linkages and micro-funding.

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We are driven by the radical idea
- That Africa can eradicate Extreme Poverty.
- Every African deserves a dignified & basic standard of living.
- Africa needs to change the way it tackles extreme poverty.