Explorers October 2013 | Page 13

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Text/Video: Imani M. Cheers

Photos: Gabriella Demczuk

Anna Temu is ab experienced entrepreneur with over 30 years in the farming business. When her father passed in the early 1980s, Tanzanian patriarchal traditions required that her brother become the heir to her father’s farming business despite his disinterest. Anna was determined to pursue her interests in farming and after a decade of schooling finally launched her first business. Now with over 30 employees and multiple products (soya) including distributing a nutritional supplement, Plumpy Nut, Anna’s closer to her goal of ending malnutrition for African children.