Shantha Bloemen - Founder & Managing Director - Mobility for Africa
I am very happy to be speaking with Shantha Bloemen, Founder & Managing Director of Mobility for Africa!
Shanta’s career spans two decades working with UNICEF in the communications space with assignments in Liberia, Pakistan, India, China, and New York. She is also a filmmaker, producer and director of the film, ‘T-shirt Travels, The Story of Secondhand clothes and Third World Debt in Zambia’ where she traces a T-shirt trail carved by global economics and discovers how second hand clothing, donated as charity in the United States, ends up in Africa, leaving Zambia even more impoverished than before.
Driven by her early experiences living in rural Zambia where women carried the enormous burden of walking long distances carrying goods, water and children with no support, in 2018, she founded Mobility for Africa, a social enterprise that brings green mobility solutions to rural women. Shanta holds a master’s degree from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and an honours degree in History from University of Western Australia.
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