Founder of Ethnic Supplies a social enterprise working to alleviate poverty amongst East African women involved in textile and handicraft production. Managing Editor of Africa on the blog
Let Them Help Themselves Out of Poverty
I took up Nikki’s 30 day blogging challenge . The task I am currently working on requires us to answer questions that people ask us the most about our work. I have mostly undertaken the tasks on my own blog ethnicsupplies.org but I decided to do this task twice both on this blog as well [...]
Is the Starbucks boss crying foul or really rooting for coffee farmers?
Today 11th May 2011 the news has been full of one thing that is close to my heart- the true value of what producers in the developing world earn for their hard work. The price of coffee is at its highest in 34 years and whilst this should be good news for the farmers the [...]
Gaddafi- will the headmaster be rolling up his tent soon?
Back in January I had a rare opportunity of being part of a delegation that got to meet Gaddafi in his compound. The reason – Gaddafi had called a Historic conference to discuss African immigration into Europe. One of the questions he sought to answer was whether we the Africans in the diaspora are afforded [...]
Bad customer service or mindless racism?
On Friday 8th April 2011 I visited Barclays bank in Wandsworth High Street to withdraw money from my savings account. Given the amount of money I wanted to withdraw I was silently kicking myself for forgetting to bring a second form of ID. But I thought I would give it a try and see how [...]
Is a UN Agency for Women necessary?
On Saturday 26th March 2011, I attended a workshop in Central London on exploring gender equality. The afternoon session was mostly about a new UN agency launched in July 2010 called UN WOMEN to address issues pertaining to gender equality and the empowerment of women. During the afternoon we learned that the agency is still [...]
In her shoes: My descent in entrepreneurial hell
In her shoes is a series of anonymous posts from women in business, sharing their experience. In your comments you are asked to answer the question – What would you do in her shoes? My story began 9 months ago; it is a story of self-realisation, friendship, love and betrayal. After 11 years at home [...]
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