As Afghanistan’s leading telecommunications provider, Roshan’s mobile phone service is transforming security, information sharing and entrepreneurship in the world’s second most corrupt country.
In June, Shainoor Khoja spoke to an audience at Mercy Corps about Roshan’s long-term investment in poverty alleviation through technology. Khoja described Roshan’s operations across Afghanistan’s 34 provinces, places most companies usually don’t wish to work.
As former managing director of Roshan Community, Khoja established one of the first corporate social responsibility departments in Kabul, Afghanistan. In one of the toughest places in the world, Roshan shows how the private sector’s engagement in their customer’s communities can advance socio-economic growth in developing areas.
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