Manon Lavaud

Overview

From a French island in Indian Ocean I lived in France Canada United States South Korea and India. I have worked in India and Africa in Microfinance and Strategy Consulting. I m passionate about low technologies and social innovation at the base of the pyramid. My main aim is to acknowledge and spread underprivileged community s creativity and sense of entrepreneurship. I believe that people have the solution they just need the resources and the leverages. During my master of Social Entrepreneurship I participated to the Hult Prize and started my current venture Musana Carts. Musana Carts has been selected among 25 000 projects as one of the top 5 finalists to be presented at the Clinton Global Initiative in September 2016. Musana carts are vending carts that connect street food vendors in Africa to their city by providing them with solar energy on the go. By buying our carts the vendors have access to a finance program to business and WASH trainings as well as a business license.