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Indego Africa

Indego Africa is a 501(c)(3) non-profit social enterprise that advances woman-owned cooperatives of African artisans toward sustainable, economic independence through market access and education. Indego Africa first partners with for-profit cooperatives of women artisans in Rwanda and markets and sells their handmade accessories and home décor products on its e-commerce site and to U.S. brands and retail chains, including Anthropologie, DANNIJO, J.Crew, Madewell, and Nicole Miller. Indego Africa then pools 100% of its profits from sales with donations to fund training programs for its partners in financial management, entrepreneurship, literacy, and computers – all of which are taught by Rwanda’s top university students.

Through their partnership with Indego Africa, artisan women entrepreneurs generate income through product sales to meet their families’ critical needs while also acquiring the necessary skills to run their own profitable businesses over the long-term. Indego Africa is the subject of a Harvard Business School case study and a recipient of the Fair Trade Federation’s Most Positive Change in a Producer Community Award and the Templeton Freedom Award in Social Entrepreneurship.

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This splendid book is more than a primer on social entrepreneurship for human rights in the developing world.  It is also a compendium of searing testimony about the immense practical challenges that idealistic changemakers can overcome by dint of their unflagging energy, incandescent visions of humanity and justice, and on-the-ground skills and resourcefulness.  Zachary Kaufman has performed a great public service in orchestrating this admirable volume about how hope for the future can be vindicated even under the most unpromising conditions.”

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