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I would love to connect about ZAP. Moyo Jasiri is looking for product partners. My email is jennifer@moyojasiri.com

 Thanks!

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Great work! Congratulations for your successes to date!

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In 1998 I answered the call to see the world and went to Mongolia as a Peace Corps Volunteer. I have been a global soul ever since with a passion for women’s issue.

I have founded my own nonprofit focused on empowering women through entrepreneurship. Called Moyo Jasiri (Swahili for strong and resilient heart),  we are launching in St. Johns and Nairobi simultaneously.

In St. Johns we are piloting our first ePowerment Center that will serve to strengthen our local economy by facilitating connection, exchange and collaboration among women business owners, while connecting our local community the global community. It will house a global market that will sell local and global niche artisan crafts and products. Technology will also be a central part of it - technology and web 2.0 connects us and provides us opportunities in ways never imagined - even 10 just years ago.

In Nairobi, are working with a fantastic Kenyan woman, Edna, to launch our signature program, AWE (Advancing Women Entrepreneurs), there. By launching our programs simultaneously, we are able to harness “womenonmics”, globalization and the technology revolution to feed two birds with one crouton. (The two birds being women in Portland and Naiobi, of course.) It’s very exciting!

The comments about giving locally are exactly why we are starting locally, too. It feels very authentic to be starting in our own backyard without forgetting that we are part of a global family.

You can find us at moyojasiri.com or @moyojasiri on Twitter or jennifer@moyojasiri.com. We would love to connect!

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Fantastic work.

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