Roxie Overaker | About Me and ESMT's RLF Program
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I am from the U. S. Born and raised in boston and I have just graduated from the whole time. As you can probably tell I'm not in Berlin at the moment. Um I actually just landed in Nairobi kenya and um it's part of the Responsible Leaders Fellowship. It's really important for us to not just get back to our local community but the global community to pass on the knowledge that we have learned. I was really inspired and excited to see that this was a value that S. And T. Took very seriously and afford it. There are students, the opportunities to participate in. Uh my project has been approved for five months, so I'm gonna be doing a video series twice a week highlighting the progress of my project as well as just a little bit about my life in Nairobi, and I'm going to be traveling to a few other places as well, going on safari. So really excited to have you guys come along the journey with me um a little bit about my project, so I am working with a very young entrepreneur and fashion designer by the name of David a veto, and I'm helping him to scale up his fashion retail company and and his friends, which looks like the veto. So you can see it there on the screen, the length to the company of your interested in looking more is also in the description for this video, David is originally from Kibera, For those of you who don't know how big is the largest urban slum in africa. Um, and rather than this holding him back, this is actually coming from this place is what has inspired him, uh, so inspired by the artist at the resilience of the community around him in Kibera, David wants to create a business, uh, to elevate his community, reinvesting all profits into providing employment opportunities for local career in residence. Eventually, David wants to build a textile and fashion school in Kibera. Our goal over the next five bucks to firstly develop a marketing strategy, uh, then create and implement a sales expansion plan and capitalize on the already existing distribution center that David set up last year in cologne Germany, further leveraging the connections that David made when he was visiting Germany last year for Berlin fashion Week. I'm really excited for you to follow us on this journey for the next five months. Like I said, I'll be posting two videos a week. You'll also be hearing from David in the next video, I'll be interviewing him. You'll be getting to hear a little bit more about him and his origin story from my personal experience. He is truly the most inspiring person I have ever spoken to, uh, an absolute foreign entrepreneur and incredibly passionate, inspiring individual. So I'm excited for you guys to meet him and get to hear more about his goals, ambitions and the journey that his company has been on so far.
