The time for us to begin innovating and looking for new solutions is now.

Acumen Fund's patient capital investment in Western Seed is intended to enhance the food security and economic independence of Kenya's smallholder farmers.

My dream is to find individuals who take financial resources and convert them into changing the world in the most positive ways.

Each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And it's in the total of all those acts that the history of this generation will be written.

If indeed we can create systems that allow individuals to access goods and services like health and housing and energy and water, in a way that they can afford, they'll all have greater choice, greater opportunity, greater dignity.

How you see where you are always depends on where you've been.

My whole life has been spent with people who have taken every knock in the world. No advantages. Yet they greet you with a big smile, they give you what they have, and they keep coming back. They are the fighters.