Turkish Tech Firm Does Something Epic With $27 Million From Its Sale
Sometimes, hard work really does pay off. For a group 100 loyal employees at a recently sold Turkish Tech company, it resulted in the surprise of their lives.
As a Harvard graduate, she has started a non-profit organization to find low-level tech jobs for the world's poorest citizens.
A Harvard graduate has started a non-profit organization to find low-level tech jobs for the world's poorest citizens.
Leila Janah started Samasource-Sama is Sanskrit for "equal"-as an outsourcing company that hires people in Africa and Asia to perform digital tasks for companies like AOL, Ebay and Google.
"It was important to me to start this business in a way that would… find people below the poverty line, and move them above it," she told Wired.
Since the nonprofit launched in 2008 it has helped 6,794 desperately poor people- some in Haiti too.
"On average, our workers increase previous income by 114% after six months of Samasource employment," according to the website.
(READ the full story at Wired) - Story tip from David Adams
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