Disruptive Voice Podcast, episode 1: Efosa Ojomo and what RPP’s think of building wells in Nigeria
63.2 million people in Nigeria don’t have safe access to water.
A common response to this statistic is to want to give these people access to safe water — which is exactly what inspired Efosa Ojomo to co-found Poverty Stops Here, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide access to clean water and sanitation resources, micro-loans to help start a new or expand a current business, and education/health initiatives for children in Nigeria. But despite all of the research on development that Efosa had done prior to starting this nonprofit, things didn’t go exactly as planned.
In this episode of the Disruptive Voice podcast, we learn why Efosa left his job and chose to pursue an MBA, how a course with Professor Clay Christensen provided him with a completely new framework through which to view the development problems facing his home country, and how he might have been able to predict the problems that befell the good work that Poverty Stops Here was spearheading.
— Tracy Kim Horn, Community Manager, Forum for Growth & Innovation
