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About
I’m Meaghan Cassidy. I’m a social entrepreneur. I’m the Vice President, Operations at KARIBU Solar Power.
What’s social enterprise? Social enterprise seeks solutions to the world’s most challenging problems—through business. We strive for sustainability and scalability through income generation.
Will it work? We’ll see. The market is powerful. Consumer demand is powerful. Shaping consumer demand has the potential to transform the world. Don’t believe me? Just look at what Coke has done.
What’s a VP, Ops? Lots of things. I like to think of it as complementing the CEO—or, in our case, the Executive Director. It’s the one position that’s relative to each company, and each executive team. Find me on LinkedIn for more information.
About Moshi
Population
Time Zone (GMT Offset)
Average Daily Hours of Sunshine
Cafés to sip freshly roasted local coffee
There is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.
Featured Posts
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And Sometimes Extremists Hack Your Blog
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Well, that was fun. Roman emailed me the other day with a screenshot of my website, asking if there was some joke—instead of a little blog about my thoughts on life and social enterprise in Tanzania, a DOS-command-prompt-from-circa-1995-looking screen greeted me instead. Thanks to some help from Scott (love you! and... Read More
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Three Months
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Three months ago today I was cruising down Route 1 through Big Sur with Ben. Three months. A quarter of a year. 25% of 2014. It was the first day of the rest of my life, in a very real way. I had packed up my belongings, left on a... Read More
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Nyuki
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There’s a stall close by our house where I go for breakfast most mornings, and for lunch when I’m not in town. (Head on over to Flickr to check our some pictures of it empty on a Sunday.) It’s nice. They know my name, address me as Dada Lulu. I’m... Read More
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Good Things
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It made it! I couldn’t be more pleased. Or duly impressed. Ben figured out how to send me packages. To those of you with mailboxes living in a country able to support the basic infrastructure of a postal service, you may not understand why I’m so impressed. There aren’t addresses... Read More
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Commuting
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Talking with friends and family back home reminded me that the mundane here is what most people wonder about. Roman asked what I eat. Martha wanted to see what the toilets look like. Daddy couldn’t believe that women actually carry bunches of bananas on their heads. It’s in the spirit... Read More
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How I ended up Scottish dancing with a Tanzanian
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Tim says that unfortunately there aren’t linens yet. I’m moving into his house this weekend. It will be good for me to live with some mzungu, to have friends around to hang out, to create some spontaneous social opportunities. ‘That’s fine,’ I tell him. I have linens, and we can... Read More
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Mwihidini
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Mwihidini’s driving me home again. It’s the night before we leave for Nairobi for Sankalp. I’m sitting in the front for the first time. Usually I prefer to sit in the back, to be driven and to maintain a semblance of decorum. I’m not sure how things are done here,... Read More
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Mzungu
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Moshi is safe. It’s also very clean. It’s peaceful and pretty. If it’s not too late in the morning when I leave the house, I walk into town. I can stay in the shade on the side of the road, and enjoy the walk thinking through things for myself. The... Read More
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