Mar 2025 Forum: "Who are you?"
Grant Smith, Founder/CEO of Hand-in-Hand, tells his story.
Grant is the CEO/Founder of Hand in Hand, a social enterprise supporting young people in East Africa: www.handinhandgroup.com
He is also the author of "The Accidental Social Entrepreneur" available on Amazon. The preamble to his book describes Grant in the following way:
"Grant Smith is not a visionary or an enthusiastic missionary. He's a problem solver. When confronted with the desperate problems of poverty he witnessed in Africa, he did the only thing he knew how to do--business. Business that would provide jobs and pay people enough so that they would not have to rely on charity to send their kids to school, so that none would be forced to live in a tin shed without water, electricity, sewerage, or dignity, fighting off the threat of pneumonia every time it rained. His venture led to a great challenge: become the biggest house-builder in Kenya.
Both humorous and realistic, Smith tells of his successes and failures with projects as diverse as growing oil crops, a road-building scheme, house building, and selling old gas pumps. With faith in God's provision--and a little bewilderment--Smith wrestles with difficulties that every entrepreneur knows too well: finding investment funding only to lose it again, acquiring trustworthy business partners, confronting bribery and bureaucracy, corruption and culture. He is not the biggest house-builder in Kenya (yet!), but Smith has stumbled on a near-miraculous way of unlocking long-term financial provision for local Christian charities"
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https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84618432203
