Meet the Entrepreneur helping 18,000 moto taxi drivers to achieve their dreams. Michael from Tugende.

Meet the Entrepreneur helping 18,000 moto taxi drivers to achieve their dreams. Michael from Tugende

February 20, 2019

Tugende is a Social Business that helps mototaxi drivers double their incomes by owning their motorcycles. They have helped over 18,000 motorcycle taxi drivers with higher incomes, including the drivers’ families, that’s over 85,000 people.

Fuelling social-business entrepreneurship in Kenya and beyond

Imagine that when you cook a meal, your only means of doing so is by lighting an open fire inside your kitchen. Thick plumes of black smoke fill the room where you and your family cook and eat every evening. Since this is your only means of cooking, you pay significant amounts every year to buy the fuel for it.

We took a holistic, expedient and humane approach to support smallholder farmers in Colombia

On 20 March this year, Luis Miguel Botero discovered that his social business, Pomario, faced an existential threat. It was the day that a nation-wide quarantine in Colombia was announced, which was ultimately extended until the end of August. For Botero, as for many business owners, this presented the threat that his social businesses’ revenues would disappear overnight.

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