Rosebill Satha-Samba

Rosebill Satha-Samba

Africa, Malawi, Environmental Issues, Women and Gender Issues, 2012

Rosebill Satha is the founder and manager of JARDS Products, an innovative social business that produces unique, eco-friendly bamboo products while empowering youth and women through job skills development and stable employment. Satha is also a trainer for the International Labor Organization’s Women Entrepreneurship Development & Gender Equality Program, where she trains government and business association representatives, women entrepreneurs and others on the importance of gender equality and equity in relation to providing business development services. As a fellow at Micro Enterprise Training and Assistance in Boise, Idaho, she helped them to become an SBA intermediary lender. Upon return to Malawi, Satha focused her work on identifying female operated businesses and linking them with professionals who assisted in strengthening weak areas of their business and monitored their growth.

In memory of those who worked to make the world a better place and inspired others along the way, Rosebill Satha-Samba (1984–2016).