tton production and cotton ginning across the nation has only begun to be revived in the past 15-20 years. In 2009, the Ugandan government invited Bruce Robertson a South African entrepreneur (and an Aspen Leadership Initiative Fellow) with 15 years of cotton ginning experience in Uganda, to lease a factory

ent. I cannot thank enough the leaders who made this program possible: KCB Bank in East Africa, the Edmond de Rothschild Foundations, Ali Mufuruki, Bruce Robertson, Duncan Onyango and so many others who gave of themselves to help others build a dream. In the past quarter, individuals from the Acumen family gl