Green Energy and The Solar Taxi Project with Reeta Roy - CEO of Mastercard Foundation | Episode 004

The Hive Tribe

We had the incredible opportunity of hosting the President and CEO of the Mastercard Foundation, Reeta Roy. Under her leadership, the foundation has gained worldwide recognition for their work in women empowerment and education while committing over 2.2 billion dollars to advance education and financial inclusion in Africa. The Mastercard Foundation is one of the top five organizations in the world. In less than 15 years, Mastercard Foundation has grown from a small “start-up” with just three employees to one of the largest foundations in the world and committed over US$2.2 billion while improving the lives of more than 33.8 million people and their families. These are some very impressive numbers.

Reeta grew up in Malaysia and has found herself on a trajectory to leadership through the help of her mother. She believes that Africa is an amazing, dynamic, and vibrant continent characterized by huge change and significant progress in digital innovation. She added that Africa, as the youngest population in the world, will become the world’s workforce in a few years. The first decade of the foundation’s work has provided financial support to over 30 countries across the continent.

They have been partners with Kumasi Hive as we spearhead the Green Energy Revolution in Ghana by introducing Solar Vehicles to help reduce transportation challenges as well as give a voice to ladies through our Female Drivers' Academy, which seeks to train young ladies to drive and ride our SolarTaxi's.

On leadership, Reeta shares what it takes to be a leader of one of the top five organizations in the world and how one can be a great leader.

For this second part of our interview, we discussed Green Energy and the SolarTaxi Project. We also touched on Women in leadership and the multiplying effect they have in our communities. We also talk about how Trotro Tractor and Farmerline are significantly changing how we work by providing a sharable product for farmers to use as well as providing climate-resistant crops and introducing new methods of farming.

Find out more about Reeta Roy at @reetaroymcf on Twitter and the Mastercard Foundation via mastercardfdn.org and @MastercardFdn on Twitter and @mastercardfoundation on Facebook and Instagram.

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