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May 8, 2009 Vanderbilt University News Service (Video): When Human and Organizational Development students Henry Manice and Wil Keenan were just freshmen, they created an online business to aid and empower families in Uganda. Enjuba ended up impacting Wil and Henry and the Ugandan artisans far more than any of them imagined.
May 4, 2009 Vanderbilt View: At its best, the university experience challenges students to ask complex questions and to dream big in terms of solutions. Vanderbilt students Henry Manice and Wil Keenan turned their dream of creating a company to aid and empower the people of Uganda into reality by asking the question, “Can business be used as a tool for change?”
October 3, 2007 Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management: Project Pyramid Net Impact Case Competition- 200 MBA students from 20 business schools competed to design the best marketing strategy for Enjuba. (Click here to see the entries).
September 28, 2007 Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management Press Release: Ironically, Project Pyramid discovered its first international client almost by accident, right under its nose: two Vanderbilt sophomores, Wil Keenan and Henry Manice. For their part, the Owen students in the Pyramid project have helped Enjuba’s founders make contacts, develop partnerships and manage their operation effectively. “Seeing what these guys were doing was both inspiring and lit a fire under us,” says Choudhry.
July 13, 2007 Business Quickie: If you want to feel great in your clothes, you need to check out enjuba.com. Enjuba (which translates to “rising sun” in Luganda) sells fashionable handcrafted clothing.
February 1, 2007 The Vanderbilt Register: Vanderbilt sophomores Henry Manice and Wil Keenan’s two-month trip to Uganda last summer changed lives- theirs and the lives of many Ugandan artisans and children.
November 10, 2006 The Vanderbilt Hustler: A summer trip to Africa turned sophomores Henry Manice and Wil keenan into entrepreneurs. After spending two months in Uganda, the pair realized that much of the country’s problems could be alleviated through investment in quality education at the community level.