1. Jake Harriman graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and served over 7 years in the U.S.
Marine Corps as a platoon commander in both the Infantry and a Special Operations unit
called Force Recon
2. He led Marines in four operational
deployments throughout Southwest Asia and
the Middle East, Africa, and Southeast Asia,
including two combat tours in Iraq, and was
awarded the Bronze Star for actions in
combat during his second tour in Iraq.
3. Jake’s personal experiences fighting the war on terror around
the world convinced him that extreme poverty is a
contributing factor to the causes of 21st century terrorism and
insurgency, and that a reduction in extreme poverty will
impede their proliferation. To fight terrorism and insurgency
from another angle, Jake left his career in the Marine Corps
and enrolled at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business
(GSB) to build an organization that could ultimately rid the
world of extreme poverty in our lifetime.
4. Located in the southwest of the country of Kenya. Kuria
West District is populated by farmers growing mainly corn
and a few staple crops. Despite ample rains, their yields were
very low due to nitrogen-depleted soil and inferior maize
seeds. Families experienced a hunger season between
harvest. Children were reading far below grade level, and
there was neither business training nor access to capital for
investment. Nuru is a Kiswahili word that means "light“
5. We got our information from
http://www.nuruinternational.org/story/
Group Member:
Kingsley Tan 1E7
Ong Wei Yao 1E7
Kok Yong Sian 3E8
