How is a social enterprise born? Is it born out of a simple recognition that some thing needs to change, or is it much more complex than that?
For Sameer Hajee, the decision to give up a lucrative career as a micro-process engineer in Silicon Valley was a simple one. “After working for four years, I needed a change in geography,” he tells me over a recent Skype call. A few months later, he was working for a telecom operator in Afghanistan.
Six months in the war-torn country offered Hajee a unique perspective on the impact of energy in one of the most impoverished regions of the world. “Afghanistan opened my eyes to how impactful appropriate energy use can be. I decided right then that this is what I would focus on after business school,” he recalls.
Hajee is the founder and CEO of Nuru Light, one of five winners of this year’s Powering Economic Opportunity: Create a World That Works competition, co-hosted by the eBay Foundation and Ashoka Changemakers….[more at the source] How Sameer Hajee Has Shed Real Light in Africa – Forbes. Earlier related: Sameer Hajee: Muslim Inventor Provides Off-the-Grid Electricity
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Allah blesses the one who is blessed and thru his or her hands He achievs certain goals that are just right in time and space,we all know that all the inventions and achievements take place as and when He wishes and this time it is Hajee whom He has choosen,it fills up the hearts of the Ismailies.
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