Who are the thinkers behind Majamba?

Part of the Majamba team (who showed up for the photo shoot)

Thanks to Enea, Maya, Fed, Jeannine and Mattia (who are in the photo) as well as Nico, Diego, Shyam, Chandan, Deepak, Aslam, Narendra, Chirag, Anil, Jaldip, Nandini, Rahul, Fabrice, Bhaskar, Chris, Jeff, Damien, Timm, Marc, Tom, Noel, Joe, Mathias, Alex, Ramakrishna, Manish, Mike, Simon, Sebastien, Laurent, Dipankar, Caroline, Thomas, Sandy, Didier and many months of research, planning, development, user testing, partnership management, integration, more development, launching test campaign and polishing - I am pleased to report that Majamba.Me is fully functional. In the process I have invested all my life's savings, received recognition and investment from the Swiss Government, made some very good friends and found a way to end global poverty. 

What is Majamba.Me?

Majamba.Me is an innovation that turns social interaction into social good. Majamba.Me is the world's most rewarding way to introduce yourself. As a member you create a visual profile page. You select a photo that tells your story. You can add a few words and your social links. Your visual profile is the front page of your world on the Internet. Its your social resume, your social card. And the more views your profile on Majamba.Me gets, the more Majamba Hugs you get and you can use your hugs to get fair trade gifts for free. Thus creating jobs for the hardest working people on the planet. 

What is the Goal?

Once we achieve 100M active users, we will be able to have a direct impact on lifting 100M from poverty in a dignified way. The Majamba.Me platform is in open beta and I am inviting a few selected friends and family to try the platform, create a profile, share with friends. Our lead social enterprises is SEWA.ORG and our goal is to sign up hundreds of social enterprises. 

Why do this?

Today, 3,260,000,000 people try to live on less than $2.50 a day. Today, most of the ways of supporting them (donations or micro-loans) either destroy their dignity or burden them with a cycle of debt. Moreover the Internet revolution is passing them by because most of the 3.26 billion people living around the poverty line cannot read, write and most of them do not even have electricity. Sometimes, the only skill our friends have is to produce handmade goods. However, most of the time, they do not get a fair deal for their efforts, hence the cycle of poverty persists. I want to leverage my MBA, my business experience, the Majamba.Me platform as well as all my energy to make a dent on global poverty.