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As part of the MBA programme at ESMT Berlin, graduates can participate in the Responsible Leaders Fellowship which involves gaining real-world business experience in Asia or Africa to help a local company.
Beverly Dodard-Guillaume chose to work for the Huru Foundation in Kenya.
The goal of the foundation is to empower and educate the survivors of gender-based violence in Nairobi and the surrounding slums. She is supporting this new company by helping them to write a business plan, understand financial planning, develop programmes and find donors.
TopMBA spoke with Beverly (pictured) to find out what it’s like working for an NGO start-up in Africa and how her MBA helped her prepare for the experience.
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Why the Huru Foundation?
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Working alongside a charity organisation
Looking to the future
Niamh was Deputy Head of Content at QS (TopMBA.com; topuniversities.com), creating and editing content for an international student audience. Having gained her journalism qualification at the Press Association, London and since written for different international publications, she's now enjoying telling the stories of students, alumni, faculty, entrepreneurs and organizations from across the globe.
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