After working in manufacturing in China, Eoin Flinn and his wife Megan Root arrived in the Kenyan capital Nairobi in 2012. At first, the couple worked for two social enterprises. “I was making clean cook stoves and she was making solar-powered home systems, and we were loving all of that,” says Flinn, 45, who is originally from Croom, Limerick. “But we just wanted to do real businesses, and that was what prompted us to start our own companies.” Root launched a company in Kenya which produces natural and non-toxic cleaning products called Grounded. Meanwhile, Flinn launched two companies: Booch, a…

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