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Catherine Casey

Title West Africa manager
Organization Acumen Fund

Catherine is based in Accra, Ghana, where she is leading Acumen Fund’s exploration of expansion to Ghana and Nigeria.

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Celebrating Heroes at TEDxChange @ Kibera

March 16, 2011 / Catherine Casey

Nurse Dorah Nyanja’s brightly painted Senye Clinic stands in stark contrast to its surroundings—rusted tin shacks, piles of burning trash, and streams of raw sewage. I first met Dorah at Senye in 2007, when she was a franchisee with CFWShops Acumen Fund in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, East Africa’s largest slum.

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  • "Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward." —Melinda Gates

  • "The world faces a clear choice. If we invest relatively small amounts, many more poor farmers will be able to feed their families." —Bill Gates, 2012 Annual Letter

  • "When it come to global health, Bill and I are optimists—but we're impatient optimists. Tremendous progress is being made. But there is still so much we're impatient to see done." —Melinda French Gates

  • The Global Fund has helped to deliver more than 190 million bed nets to protect families from malaria.

  • In Senegal, 80% of households now have a bed net, helping the number of malaria cases there drop 50% in a single year.

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