Podcast episodes
Season 1
S01 E06 - Episode 6 - Empowering local businesses (Steve Maina)
Kiriti Tea Factory is a beautiful example of tuko pamoja (people coming together). Several years ago, a dozen small-scale tea farmers in Mathioya sub county decided they had enough of the national tea monopolies imposing their te...
S01 E05 - Episode 5 - Building strong partnerships (Erik Hersman)
Erik Hersman is a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of several high social impact tech companies (Ushahidi, iHub, Gearbox, BRCK).In his latest venture (www.gridlesscompute.com), Erik has partnered with Hydrobox on making electric...
S01 E04 - Episode 4 - Heartfelt Customer Stories (Lilian Kagoche)
In this episode we follow Lilian Kagoche, customer service manager at Hydrobox. She takes us along to visit a few household customers who explain what access to electricity means to them. Lilian is passionate about raising custome...
S01 E03 - Episode 3 - Walking together, 2 perspectives from the team (Alice Mumbi & Joshua Nyameino)
S01 E03 - Episode 3 - Walking together, 2 perspectives from the team (Alice Mumbi & Joshua Nyameino)
Hydrobox executives Alice Mumbi (Operations) and Joshua Nyameino (Finance) talk about how they experience the idea of 'togetherness' and share with us how their life journey drew them to rural electrification.
S01 E02 - Episode 2 - Meet the man who built a power station in his teens (John Magiro)
In this episode, we get to know John Magiro, co-founder and technical director of Hydrobox. John tells us how he got the idea to build his first power station by watching his brother ride his bicycle. At the moment his initial pow...