It's on the 29th of December, 2012 (a day after our business-seminar in Douala) that Beth - editor at The Next Women Magazine, contacted the Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance to request an interview from me, as the theme in January was Africa. I thought it would be a great opportunity to share my experiences and thoughts. So, after submitting my MBA applications early January, and attending the inauguration of the "Water is Life" EWB-Bamendjou project, I responded to their interview questions, which they published on their website 3 weeks ago.
Today, I am surprised at the thousands of people who have read and the hundreds of those who have shared my story on social media.
Some of the things I would have liked to mention/clarify is that:
- Harambe Cameroon does not claim to be the first social enterprise in Cameroon, but the first social entrepreneurship program , i.e. a program to train people (mostly youths) and stimulates them to be social entrepreneurs. We take them from their knowledge of entrepreneurship and we engage them to develop social-businesses in a concerted and strategic way. As I mentioned in the interview, many people in Cameroon are social entrepreneurs without being conscious of it. Harambe-Cameroon, since 2009 consciously engages youths (through our various programs, info-sessions, competitions, and business seminars) to be social entrepreneurs.
- I also omitted to mention one of the worldwide notable Cameroonian social entrepreneur, Gisele Yitamben, president of ASAFE - mentioned in the Social Entrepreneurship classic How to change the world - social entrepreneurs and the power of new ideas by David Bornstein,
She is one of the pioneer social entrepreneurs in Cameroon.
With that, I invite you to Click on this link to read the entire interview...
Today, I am surprised at the thousands of people who have read and the hundreds of those who have shared my story on social media.
Some of the things I would have liked to mention/clarify is that:
- Harambe Cameroon does not claim to be the first social enterprise in Cameroon, but the first social entrepreneurship program , i.e. a program to train people (mostly youths) and stimulates them to be social entrepreneurs. We take them from their knowledge of entrepreneurship and we engage them to develop social-businesses in a concerted and strategic way. As I mentioned in the interview, many people in Cameroon are social entrepreneurs without being conscious of it. Harambe-Cameroon, since 2009 consciously engages youths (through our various programs, info-sessions, competitions, and business seminars) to be social entrepreneurs.
- I also omitted to mention one of the worldwide notable Cameroonian social entrepreneur, Gisele Yitamben, president of ASAFE - mentioned in the Social Entrepreneurship classic How to change the world - social entrepreneurs and the power of new ideas by David Bornstein,
She is one of the pioneer social entrepreneurs in Cameroon.
With that, I invite you to Click on this link to read the entire interview...
that's amazing. Have you thought about using this project as a template to do the same thing in other regions? Not necessarily with just this organisation but partnering with other organisations in cameroon, where they raise the funds and you provide the engineers to accomplish the task?
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