I am super excited to start blogging here on ResurgeAfrique's website. I started Zenith Cleaners, in Montreal, while studying for my MBA at McGill University in 2004. Zenith Cleaners has been a sort of training for me in how to create and run a venture whose purpose goes beyond profit. 

For a while, I have been sensing the need to do something different, with bigger impact. Then I attended Social Venture Network's conference in fall of 2009 and I saw that I needed to take bolder steps to realize my dreams. I met a number of people tackling problems I would have left to God to solve, because of the magnitude and seeming impossibility of the problems. One of the guys I met is Mark Hanis, who founded the Genocide Intervention Network. His story encouraged, inspired and challenged me to dream differently and step out of my comfort zone.

ResurgeAfrique is an attempt by a small group of people to tackle some of Africa's challenges, at the grassroots. It is exciting to be partnering with some of the world's most outstanding innovators and inventors creating products and solutions that are designed to make life better for people like me, at the grassroots in different parts of Africa. Products and solutions that actually work. We are engaging in development entrepreneurship, not alone but with other like minded organizations and individuals within and outside the continent. This makes me want to wake up in the morning.