by adminusr | Oct 16, 2017 | social entrepreneurship
Janine Roberts, an ex-nurse from Cape Town, has successfully achieved her goal of improving the lives of the people in Vrygrond, where she gave them the chance to step out of the poverty, insecurity, and all-around hopelessness they lived everyday. In this...
by adminusr | Sep 7, 2017 | social entrepreneurship
As featured on Oguntê – Impact Women. Vrygrond is a town that has been hit hard with poverty, insecurity, and drug dealership, and this is the place where Janine Roberts decided to establish Ukama, the business model that is set to benefit the poor. Janine strongly...
by adminusr | Oct 7, 2015 | social entrepreneurship
As featured on CapeTalk – Breakfast with Kieno Kammies: Ukama’s own Janine Roberts was one of the 31 South African entrepreneurs chosen by the Tony Elumelu Foundation to participate in their entrepreneur boot camp program. Listen to the Capetalk’s Breakfast with Kieno...
by adminusr | Oct 7, 2015 | social entrepreneurship
The mastermind behind Ukama, the business model set to turn members of marginalized communities into entrepreneurs, is Cape Town’s Janine Roberts. In this interview, Janine goes a little more in depth about how Ukama works and why she decided to create this program....
