U.S. businessman Bobby Sager found his first success in retail liquidation. Today he travels the world with his family, funding a variety of philanthropic and for-profit efforts in countries as far flung as Rwanda, Nepal and Yemen. Sager insists on direct engagement with the people whose projects he supports. That kind of involvement is central not only to their success, he says, but also to his own satisfaction in funding them.
In Rwanda, still devastated after 1994's genocide, Sager Foundation invested in business ideas presented by women from opposite sides of the conflict, working together. Micro-loans were issued to Hutu and Tutsi women, who for the first time were given an incentive to reconcile. In this multimedia story, Sager describes his work in Rwanda and the philosophy of engagement and benign self-interest that drives all his projects. Many of the photos were taken by Bobby himself.
