Travelogue: Eytan Stibbe’s personal blog

Eytan Stibbe is a man whose worldwide business interests are focused on developing countries, particularly in Africa. Beside the obvious challenge of creating profitable businesses, Stibbe and his partners have set themselves another challenge - to improve the lives of people wherever they are operating. Their tireless work, which has included engaging international agencies to finance the projects, has brought progress to rural areas through the construction of drinking water purification systems, sewage treatment, electricity, health, education, affordable housing, agricultural development as a livelihood, in addition to creating households for personal use and so forth. This is no less than a revolution. Many people in the third world have seen their quality of life leapfrog several floors up, quite literally, undergoing fundamental transformation. Such a business investment is known as an “Impact Investment” (A profit-yielding investment made with the intention to generate a measurable, beneficial social or environmental impact alongside a financial return). The profit is measured both in financial return and in social return.