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Cornell students help corporations and Kenya’s poor build business partnerships

Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, is one of East Africa’s largest slums and the setting for the recent film The Constant Gardener, which presents images of grinding poverty, tempered by people’s spirit of endurance. A story of another kind is also unfolding in Kibera and in Nyota township in rural Kenya -- one in which a multinational corporation assumes the unlikely role of business partner to poo...

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Chronicle Online (link opens in a new window)

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corporations, poverty alleviation, youth