To change the world...?

(From Fortune Magazine)

Jacqueline Novogratz, founder and CEO of Acumen Fund and author of The Blue Sweater, begins:

As a 25-year old banker, I decided to leave my career and change the world. This sounds like a move that a 25-year-old banker might make today–to escape the chaos.

But this was 1986. I thought I might start my new life in Africa. I discovered soon enough, though, that most Africans didn’t want saving, thank you very much. Certainly not by me–a young, unmarried American woman whose French was pathetic and whose understanding of the continent was limited to reading a few books.

I know, this is from a couple of months ago... but interesting!
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