The Power of Youth with Reeta Roy - CEO of Mastercard Foundation | Episode 003

The Hive Tribe

We had the incredible opportunity of hosting the President and CEO of the Mastercard Foundation, Reeta Roy. Under her leadership, the foundation has gained worldwide recognition for their work in women empowerment and education while committing over 2.2 billion dollars to advance education and financial inclusion in Africa. The Mastercard Foundation is one of the top five organizations in the world. In less than 15 years, Mastercard Foundation has grown from a small “start-up” with just three employees to one of the largest foundations in the world and committed over US$2.2 billion while improving the lives of more than 33.8 million people and their families. These are some very impressive numbers.

Reeta grew up in Malaysia and has found herself on a trajectory to leadership through the help of her mother. She believes that Africa is an amazing, dynamic, and vibrant continent characterized by huge change and significant progress in digital innovation. She added that Africa, as the youngest population in the world, will become the world’s workforce in a few years. The first decade of the foundation’s work has provided financial support to over 30 countries across the continent.

For this episode on the Hive Podcast, which is the first part of the interview, we talk about the Mastercard foundation, what they do, and how they are improving the lives of youth.

Find out more about the Reeta Roy and the Mastercard Foundation via mastercardfdn.org and @MastercardFdn on Twitter and @mastercardfoundation on Facebook and Instagram.

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Beats by Bryan Stanley - souncloud.com/bryanstanley21

Hosted by Alexxa Walker