Our Mission — TechnoServe helps entrepreneurial men and women in poor rural areas of the developing world to build businesses that create income, opportunity and economic growth for their families, their communities and their countries.
Growing up, Pauline Mwangi and her siblings worked long hours alongside their parents on the family’s small coffee farm in rural Kenya. Their hard work paid off, and they earned enough during the 1980s coffee boom to put all 10 children through college. Now Pauline is working with young Kenyan women to develop business ideas, affording them hope and opportunity. Learn More »
1968—TechnoServe founded by Connecticut businessman Ed Bullard. After volunteering at a hospital in Ghana, Bullard was inspired to start an organization helping hardworking rural people harness the power of private enterprise to lift themselves out of poverty
