When British social entrepreneur Adam Bradford arrived in Rwanda for last year's Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, "I flew into Kigali with absolutely no expectation of what was going to happen next," he tells the Guardian.
But a year later, he's already found success in the country, where he plans to scale up his business by focusing on projects that impact the economy and the environment, while attracting investors from his home country and elsewhere.
The 28-year-old founder of the Adam Bradford Agency says Rwanda is "a peaceful, secure progressive place to bring your projects and bring your businesses, and really get a foothold in the African market."
He says the country is "open for business" and he's already seen success with projects including training young people in rural areas to start their own businesses, mentoring people in rural areas to get into business, and technology development.
His other passion: fighting addiction to gambling.
When he was young, Bradford learned of his father's addiction to gambling and came up with a betting safety app calledBetProtect to help others struggling with gambling addiction.
He sold the app and used the proceeds to embark on a mission to save young people from the gambling addiction, with betting particularly becoming a challenge to young people across the globe.
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