AROUND THE WORLD


A group of Loyolans visits the village of Thika in Kenya, where small-business-owners make tea, keep bees, and grow tree seedings to sell for reforestation. The mother of invention


A year later, Loyolans visit small businesses they helped plan in East Africa


in the School of Business Administration, recently returned to East Africa with four MBA students, three Gannon Scholars, and a staff member to check in on the microenterprises and the people running them. Their first stop was in the Kibera slum


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in Nairobi, where there are several female- owned businesses producing beading,


t’s been a year since Dawn Harris’s Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries provided business plans for four small businesses in East Africa. Harris, associate professor


sewing, and manufacturing dresses. Accord- ing to Harris, many people use the income from their small businesses to educate their children beyond what they could otherwise afford, including college. Eunmi Choi, a graduate student in business, particularly recalls a woman named Sarah who owns a sewing business, which allows her to support not only her own five children, but also three AIDS orphans. The next stop was at a beekeeping project


in Kenya, which also doubles as a sort of tree farm. “Kenya only has tree coverage of about


Dawn Harris


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