A Unreasonable Institute profile:
Eric Kaduru and his wife, Rebecca, became passion fruit farmers through trial and error. They became social activists completely by accident. Yet now they are thriving at both, running one of the largest horticulture projects in Uganda and, through their expanding workforce, lifting hundreds of girls out of poverty. And that's just the beginning. On the founding of KadAfrica:
With a business loan and financing from the Mango Fund impact investment fund, they founded their commercial farm, KadAfrica, in 2011. Their faith in passion fruit proved to be well founded. Within months they were forging relationships with commercial buyers and partnering with out-growers--small farmers in the area who have started growing passion fruit and selling it through KadAfrica. By 2012, their operation was the largest passion fruit producer in Uganda.
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