Welcome to the LGT Impact Blog!
Our local teams and Fellows across five world regions post on social entrepreneurship, developments, trends, challenges and other relevant topics about the impact investing sector in developing and emerging countries.
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Your LGT Impact Team
I am a passionate impact investor, however, in another life, I would be a wildlife tourism guide in the Maasai Mara private conservancies, because it matters!
by Heidi Foppa – LGT Impact Fellow 2018 I have just returned home after having spent the most incredible time in the unique Maasai Mara for my work assignment and first on-site…
On a mission to bring a solar fridge to market
by Michael Emmerson – LGT Impact Fellow 2017 Frederic Tudor was an American merchant in the 1800’s to whom we all owe a debt. The Ice King of Boston, Mr Tudor was…
What Do Parents Want for Their Children’s Education?
by Svyatoslav Pashchenko – LGT Impact Fellow 2017 When I think of boarding school, the first image that comes is an elite preparatory school. It’s certainly not something I thought that lower…
Sliding Down the Indian Rabbit Hole
by Pete Troiano – LGT Impact Fellow 2016/17 I remember the exact moment it started. My bank card got rejected from every ATM I tried to use. The screen displayed the same…
Social Mapping – How colorful hues are making door-to-door surveys more effective
by Prianka Sharma – LGT Impact Fellow 2017 A 4 hour journey from Indore in the wee hours of the morning and we arrived in Pipal Tola – a village in our…
Celebrating the Girl Child… for the Wrong Reasons
by Kausha Shah – LGT Impact Fellow 2017 Bundi- my last frontier. On my assignment interviewing Educate Girls’ stakeholders, I had already travelled to Udaipur, Pali and Jhabua. I had spoken to…
It’s like Falling Out of a Plane!
by Andrew Herweg – LGT Impact Fellow 2016 Over the last 11 months, what’s been ingrained in my mind is that I’m constantly falling out of a plane and trying to put…
A Fellowship dedicated to data-driven innovation in providing affordable and high-quality healthcare in Brazil
by Laurie Barenblat – LGT Impact Fellow 2016 Founded in 2011, dr.consulta is a network of low-cost, pay-per-service medical centers in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, offering affordable and high-quality healthcare…
Integrated access to finance for small-holder farmers: starting an innovative agri-finance company in the Philippines
by Jonna Bickel – LGT Impact Fellow 2016 As an agribusiness company specializing on high-quality crops like cacao beans, Kennemer Foods International enables small-holder farmers in the Philippines to grow cacao to…
The Power of Impact and Innovation: Fascinations and Challenges for Social Enterprises in China
by Amy Zheng – LGT Investment Associate Fellow 2015 “It is the best of times, it is the worst of times; it is the age of wisdom, it is the age of…