Winner Spotlight

Youth Impact India is leveraging proven, inclusive, and resilient approaches to transform foundational numeracy for children in India’s deepest hinterlands.

FemCare Initiative is dedicated to ensuring no woman in Nigeria dies of cervical cancer by combining awareness in local dialects, VIA screenings, and follow-up.

Harvest Guard Solutions (HGS)’s mission is to empower smallholder farmers with affordable, innovative post-harvest technologies and pre-harvest financial support, reducing food losses, enhancing food security, and increasing household incomes.

Safe Drop Solutions’ mission is to provide rural communities in Malawi with affordable and sustainable clean water through Ecofiltro water filters, improving health and livelihoods.

Congo Water Solution (CWS) is a social enterprise with the aim of increasing access to clean and safe water through affordable and reliable household water filters to underprivileged communities.

Enkumbi Terimba Aqi Uganda empowers smallholder farmers in rural Uganda with affordable, high-quality agricultural inputs, training, and cost-effective distribution to boost yields, reduce post-harvest losses, improve market access, and drive food security, income growth, and long-term poverty alleviation.

EGPATH is a start-up initiative based in Mbale city that envisions a world where every adolescent girl, particularly those aged 13 - 19, is empowered to take charge of her future, equipped with the knowledge and resources to make informed decisions about her sexual health.

Karatu Learning aims to improve literacy and numeracy skills among primary school children in Nigeria, using the Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) approach and the Language Learning from Familiar to Formal (L2F2) methodology.

Ethio-ConnectEd empowers children whose education has been disrupted by crisis to rebuild their learning, strengthen essential skills, and unlock brighter futures.

GirlSmart Education’s mission is to amplify the life outcomes of over 5 million girls across East Africa by enhancing their knowledge of high-risk sexual behaviours, averting early teenage pregnancies and reducing HIV/STI transmission.

Women's Choice Initiative seeks to increase access to self-injectable contraceptives for women.

Aqua Safe provides affordable ceramic water filters to low-income households in Malawi, ensuring safe drinking water and promoting lasting, healthy water practices.

Lead Sisters Health Initiative tackles the high rate of preventable cervical cancer deaths in Nigeria, starting in Anambra state, through a community-based, scalable model to deliver cervical cancer screenings.

Agrow empowers smallholder farmers with the knowledge, tools, and market access they need to increase productivity, reduce post-harvest losses, and build sustainable livelihoods.

OLK HealthTech Consults Ltd’s mission is to strengthen healthcare systems by enhancing biomedical engineering capacity through locally driven, sustainable solutions that restore functionality to life-saving medical equipment and prevent avoidable deaths.

VaxCess combines cash incentives, QR-coded tracking, and localized voice reminder system, to boost vaccination uptake and completion of childhood immunization schedules in underserved communities.

The Paal is reimagining the cow as more than just a livelihood, turning it into an investable asset to unlock economic opportunities for smallholder women farmers.

Read Imagine Grow Association India (RIGA) is bridging learning gaps to unlock the potential of primary students in rural India.

Wealth Village aims to break the cycle of poverty in rural Burundi through entrepreneurship.

Jagguza Capital Enterprise empowers ultra-poor women in rural communities to escape poverty by building sustainable, climate-smart businesses through seed funding, skills training, and community-based support.

Sante Initiative’s mission is to increase access to reading glasses for people with presbyopia living in low and middle-income countries.

Clearsight Initiative empowers low-income presbyopic adults in Ethiopia by providing affordable, accessible reading eyeglasses through a sustainable, community-based distribution model.

Aid Vision distributes reading glasses to older adults experiencing age-related vision change.

SunLink Engineering PLC is building sustainable livelihoods for off-grid Ethiopian communities through community-driven solar solutions.

Presbyoptics Solutions restores vision for Kenyans through affordable reading glasses.

Accelero accelerates foundational learning for underserved students in rural Indonesia.

Lotssy connects Ugandan smallholder farmers with quality knowledge, agro-inputs, and markets.

Kuwala Clean Energy’s mission is to uplift off-grid communities in Malawi with clean energy for healthier, safer lives.

Yafika Agri Ventures (YAV) is a social enterprise dedicated to helping subsistence farmers in Mwanza District, Malawi, unlock their agricultural potential and build lasting economic resilience.

HERVeg.05 empowers women and youth in rural Tanzania to fight malnutrition and poverty through a climate-smart, integrated farming model that improves nutrition, income, and resilience.