5 American start-ups doing business in developing countries + public goods

These American entrepreneurs are combining entrepreneurship, business with compassion and love, creating jobs for local people around the world and providing them with basic living wages. Here are their company and entrepreneurial stories. 1. Nisolo Products: hand-made leather shoes: Job creation Location: Trujillo, Tennessee, USA: Patrick Wood Airtac (Patrick Woodyard), founder and CEO of Nisolo Weibo: @ Nisoloshoes Entrepreneurial story: in Peru, Trujillo Shoemaker Town, in the accounting for a grocery store owner, Patrick Wood Airtac met her shoemaker's husband and was immediately attracted by his craft. With the help of business partners and co-founder Zoi Cliry Zoe Cleary, they created the company in 2011 and now sell shoes at 50 retail outlets in the United States, and in addition, they have a physical store in Tennessee State. Nisolo's mission is to empower talented craftsmen in developing countries to develop manufacturing and create jobs. I really believe that the free market provides the power of change. Patrick Wood said Airtac. The biggest challenge: Patrick Wood Airtac says that in the business world, many people think that companies are not just targeting profits, it's a disgrace. He said it was inaccurate. We have a truly great product, and our social impact is closely intertwined with our business model, and there is no difficulty in selling our products. "The real challenge is to recruit the right people for the team as the business progresses," says Airtac. "2. Fashionable products: handmade scarves and leather products reason: Create employment opportunities for women Location: Based in Tennessee, Ethiopia and Kenya characters: Barrett Wade (Barrett Ward), Fashionable, founder and CEO of Weibo: @livefashionABLE story: When fashionable's founder and CEO Barrett Wade and his wife are living in Ethiopia, For the first time, he saw extreme poverty forcing many young women and girls to betray their bodies in order to survive. This is not just a moral issue, it is also an economic problem. "Rette Wade said. These women are usually heroes who are willing to sacrifice everything they can for their families. After talking to these women, Rette Wade said he knew what they wanted was a chance to get real wages, not just handouts. So at the end of 2010, in order to give them a chance, Rette Wade created the FASHIONABL as a non-profit organization (a company that has recently split into a for-profit industry). Train and hire women to weave scarves sold in the United States. The group's staff has grown from 3 to 30-and fashionable has expanded its operations with a leather factory employing 60 women workersCooperation。 3. This bar saves lives product: Full natural oatmeal stick reason: for children to enhance nutrition location: Venice, USA: This bar saves lives co-founder Ryan Daverin (Ryan Devlin), Tode Grinnell (Todd Grinnell) and Lavis Pater (Ravi Patel) Weibo: @thisbar story: During a previous few years ' visit to Liberia, the founders Tode Grinnell and Ryan Daverin saw for the first time the devastating effects of severe acute malnutrition, But they also saw the products that saved their lives: Plumpy ' nut (peanut nutrition supplement). After years of hard work, they and another co-founder, Lavis Pater, created this Bar saves Lives in 2013 to make delicious, all-natural oatmeal sticks to help ease hunger. With each oatmeal stick sold, their non-profit partner Edesia Global Nutrition FX and Save The children will help produce and deliver a pack of lifesaving foods to needy children. Love Time: The young Company's first batch of food aid was shipped out after a deadly typhoon swept through the Philippines this January, and this Bar saves live delivers 45000 packs of Plumpy ' nut, which the company says could save 300 children. We've never done oatmeal sticks before or run a food company. , Ryan Daverin said. But this Bar saves lives gives us the incentive to win large and small partners to sell our granola bars. "4. Akola Project Products: Handmade jewelry and accessories reasons: to create employment opportunities for women Location: Headquartered in Texas, Dallas and has a division in Uganda: Brittany Meriande wood Brittany Merrill Underw,akola Founder and President of Project Weibo: @AkolaProject story: During the university through the establishment of orphanages in Uganda, Brittany Meriande learned that the best way to continue to help them was through expanding their business and employing women who cared for the children. In 2007 she created Akola project--, a handmade handmade jewelry and accessories brand that fully benefited marginalized women and their living areas. Since its inception, Underwood says Akola project has built two vocational training centres, drilled 23 wells, hired more than 200 women (who have instead created 63 of their own businesses) and affected the lives of at least 1400 children. At present, Akola ProjECT jewelry is sold in about 250 boutique stores in the United States. These women have foresight, but they lack income. "said Underwood. So we created Akola Project because by hiring these women and giving them a reliable income, we can help thousands of children. Next: In 2014, the Business Akola project will expand to Texas, Dallas, where they plan to provide an economic option for lower-class women by employing women to deliver products made in Uganda. 5. Analysys Princess Project product: punjammies The traditional sari-inspired pajamas and home service reasons: Creating Job opportunities for women: Headquartered in California State, and in India with four sewing centers characters: Shannon Keith ( Shannon Keith), founder and CEO of Analysys Princess Project Weibo: @intlprincess story: In 2006, Shannon Keith founded Analysys in India Princess Project to help women and girls who are rescued from being forced to sell their bodies to start a new life. Shannon Keith says, deeply implanted in "corporate DNA is the idea that by providing these women with new industry training (in this case sewing), they will be prepared for long-term job opportunities." The final product is shipped back to the United States where it is sold and the proceeds will be pulled back to the sewing center. The biggest challenge: from the beginning it was just a small non-profit organization with only six women, growing into a for-profit enterprise with more than 150 employees. Shannon Keith says the biggest challenge is to get the product approved and attract consumers. If, in the future, the phenomenon of trafficking in human beings is to be eliminated (which I think is possible), then there must be a number of reliable enterprises that can bring about sustainable development and dignity to help them. Shannon Keith said. 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