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Bicycles Against Poverty (BAP)
United States of America
Bicycles Against Poverty is based in northern Uganda. These bicycles will serve as a tool for income generating activities community cooperation and access to social services such as healthcare. Bicycle recipients make micropayments to BAP which thereby promotes responsibility over the bicycle microcredit management skills and allows BAP to work towards financial sustainability.
| Human health & social work |
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Duma Works
Kenya
Duma Works is Africa's leading online recruitment portal. They work with growing companies to identify and screen candidates through a quick and transparent process. rnrnThey are changing the way people think about hiring. By efficiently connecting employers and potential hires through their mobile platform they make finding that perfect person a fun experience allowing businesses to grow and job seekers to access new opportunities.
| Other |
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iNuka Pap
Kenya
iNuka pap is a Mobile phone platform that allows Sacco Members and Microfinance institutions to receive instant micro-loans through their mobile phones. Through the platform, members can also insure themselves together with their families for as low as $ 0.02 a day. They provide the platform and funding for the loan disbursement to their partner saccos and MFIs enabling them to provide instant financial services to their members risk free. iNuka Pap has combined micro-credit and Micro-insurance on a mobile platform providing access to some of the most affordable insurance products in the market.
| Financial & Insurance activites |
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Kajo Keji Health Training Institute
Sudan
Kajo Keji Health Training Institute (KKHTI) is a private not for profit registered and Recognized Health Training Institute located in Kajo Keji county Central Equatorial State Republic of South Sudan. KKHTI is the first private not for profit health training institute established by South Sudanese. On 15 January 2014 KKHTI admitted the first intake of 65 students and currently KKHTI has 128 students. There are two courses offered namely Diploma in Clinical Medicine and Public Health and Diploma in Medical Laboratory Technology.
| Education |
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Miti Health
Kenya
Miti Health is transforming healthcare in East Africa with a technology platform that addresses the most pressing needs of frontline providers. Their solution is an off the shelf Android based application for small healthcare providers in Kenya (called chemists). The system reports on sales manages inventory and enables easier reordering of high quality medications in an environment where supply chains are fragmented and over 30% of medication is counterfeit.
| Other |
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Natural Extracts Industries (NEI)
United Republic of Tanzania
Natural Extracts Industries (NEI) Ltd established in November 2011 is a social enterprise pioneering the sustainable extraction of flavours in Tanzania starting with vanilla cacao and orange. The company works in all areas from cultivation to post harvest processing to value add manufacturing and to international sales and marketing. The company s supply chain strategy aims to partner with and capacitate local farmer groups and cooperatives to ensure consistency and continuity of supply while ensuring that fair prices are passed back to the farmers. Their products are used by industrial food processors (dairies) commercial bakeries and a range of restaurants and hotels while their retail products are distributed within East Africa by supermarkets boutique delis and gift shops.
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |
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Ojay Greene
Kenya
We offer training advisory services and access to markets for underserved smallholder farmer groups and communities. Our primary focus is on those who earn US $700 annually. Through our engagement with them we seek to increase their incomes 5 times in 5 years.We utilize sms technology to improve crop and agricultural productivity for smallholder farmers. Smallholder farmers are registered into our mobile platform where they receive timely updated messages with stepwise action points on how they can increase their yields.Smallholder farmers registered into our mobile platform improve their chances of accessing profitable markets. We commit improve their crop quality through our platform. On achieving the desired crop quality we purchase the crops from them using Fair trade policies and we sell their produce to profitable markets.This model satisfies the company s mission of Increasing incomes of smallholder farmers.
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |
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SPOUTS of Water
Uganda
SPOUTS (Sustainable Point Of Use Treatment and Storage) of Water is a social enterprise focused on developing a ceramic filter manufacturing company in Uganda. SPOUTS of Water seeks to economically empower local citizens engage the surrounding communities and provide cost effective water treatment systems all in an effort to alleviate the plethora of issues caused by a lack of clean drinking water.
| Water & Sewerage |
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Totohealth
Kenya
We use mobile technology to help reduce maternal & child mortality and detect developmental abnormalities in early stages.Totohealth enables mothers and fathers to receive targeted and personalized messages timed at their child's age or stage of pregnancy. These messages are able to highlight any warning signs in a child's health/development equip you with knowledge on nutrition reproductive health parenting and developmental stimulation.
| Human health & social work |