TEMO THUO SETHO

QUALITY INPUTS CHALLENGE; Botswana

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Quality Agricultural Inputs

Learn more about the Quality Inputs Challenge and why an evidence-based model that distributes high-quality seeds could reliably boost the standard of living for smallholder farmers.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Peo-Boswa (Seeds of Heritage) by Temo Thuo Setho is an intervention that will provide quality millet and sorghum seeds and locally manufactured organic fertilizers to 100 farmers with farms of 2 hectares or less in the Chobe Enclave region.

Peo-Boswa will increase access to quality seeds and fertilizers through an agricultural pop-up shop distributing inputs to smallholder farmers. Local partnerships with reputable suppliers will provide a consistent inventory of top varieties of millet, sorghum, and organic fertilizers.

Their model hinges on effectively procuring and distributing quality inputs at scale.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Directly reach 100 farmers within three months.

• Distribute and enable access to quality indigenous seeds and fertilizers to remote community farmers.

• Fundraise an additional $35000 from local stakeholders and new investors within three months.

FOUNDING TEAM

Bojosi Antonette Ncube - Founder

Lone Nthobelang - Vice Chairperson

Sol Sisters

SOLAR LAMP CHALLENGE; NAMIBIA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Solar lamps and other solar products. 

Learn more about the Solar Lamp Challenge and how these lamps create enormous benefits for developing world families.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Approximately 25% of Namibia's 2 million people live in informal settlements which have almost nonexistent electrification rates. In addition to low electrification rates, Namibia also has a youth (age 18-34) unemployment rate above 39%. Sol Sisters' main objective is to improve livelihood availability by creating markets for solar products. 

Initially, Sol Sisters will form a super agent partnership with D.light and Greenlight Planet, enabling them to have lower initial costs and risks while better understanding the Namibian market. Both companies have agreed to provide a 2 year warranty on all products, marketing supporting, training support, and access to their full line of solar products. Sol Sisters will recruit and manager their own team of sales agents but the company distributors will assume all risk with the supply chain and inventory management. 

After successfully meeting sales targets for each month, they will negotiate a different partnership with distributors. Sol Sisters will target families and shopkeepers as customers for solar home kits. The D30 home system is an ideal solution for families spending much of their income on candles, wood, paraffin, kerosene, batteries, and phone charging kiosks as, within a year, families will realize a cost savings. Financing plans allow them to rent-to-own and remain within their disposable income range each week. The brightness of the kits will allow shop owners to attract more customers and work longer hours. Sol Sisters recognizes that the key to their success will like in community partnerships to reach sales agents and to expand their distribution networks. 

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Sell 500 solar lamps within the three month pilot 

• Impact 2,500 individuals within the three month pilot 

• Sell 1,750 solar products by the end of year 1, impacting 15,000 individuals 

• Sell 7,000 solar products by the end of year 2, impacting 35,000 individuals 

FOUNDING TEAM

Lily Nhoisaykham - Co-Founder, Training and Development

Stephanie Shih - Co-Founder, Community Partnerships

Cybil Zhang - Co-Founder, Customer Insights  

Youth Impact

SUGAR DADDY AWARENESS CHALLENGE; BOTSWANA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Sugar daddy awareness classes. 

Learn more about the Sugar Daddy Awareness Challenge and how a simple, one-hour “sugar daddy awareness” training could help countless girls avoid pregnancy while still in school, which can lead to entrenched poverty, and build a better life.

 

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

As of 2011, Botswana had the second highest rate of HIV in the world. Despite numerous condom programs, free anti-retroviral drugs, national curricula emphasizing abstinence and other efforts to curb the spread of HIV, the disease remains pervasive. 

Youth Impact (who won D-Prize as “Young 1ove” before changing their name) uses a four-pronged approach to connect youth to life-saving information about HIV. First, they find HIV education programs that work. Second, they centralize materials from effective programs on the website and at headquarters in Gaborone, Botswana. Third, they disseminate with four central approaches to remain effective: top down, grass roots, mass media, and institutional. Finally, they measure impact by making HIV surveys and assessments available and helping to administer them. 

Youth Impact will scale the sugar daddy curriculum across Botswana, starting in Gaborone and selected villages, with a plan to reach 200 schools between March and May, 2014. In addition to making a suite of proven materials, they will also crunch the numbers. Their team has produced graphs from existing national HIV data in Botswana and they will supplement the sugar daddy material and make it relevant to the Botswana context. 

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Reach 200 schools during the three month pilot phase

• Reach 500 schools at the end of year 1

• Conduct 2,000 sugar daddy workshops by the end of year 1

• Decrease teenage pregnancy by 40% by the end of year 2

• Decreasing HIV by 15% by the end of year 2

FOUNDING TEAM

Noam Angrist - Co-founder & Executive Director 

Moitshepi Matsheng -  Co-founder & Managing Director