Nuru is a United States is a 501(c)3 created to help marginalized communities in rural areas of Kenya, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, and Ghana.
[5] Harriman left his career in the Marine Corps and enrolled at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.
[7] Nuru International trains and equips local leaders in effective poverty reduction methods developed by other humanitarian organizations around the world.
[8] Nuru, as of 2009, has been piloting a community development model to address four areas of need: hunger, inability to cope with economic shock, preventable disease/death, and lack of access to quality education during childhood.
[13] As of 2010, 5,525 farming families have enrolled in Nuru's agriculture loan program, experiencing a 123% increase in their maize yields on average.