Every Child Matters

PATIENT IDENTIFICATION CHALLENGE; UGANDA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

The Ponseti method is a painless, fast, cost-effective, and reliable method for correcting clubfoot without surgery.  

Learn more about the Patient Identification Challenge and why identifying individuals in need of medical treatment and finding ways to make that treatment accessible reduces poverty.  

 

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Clubfoot is a debilitating physical deformity that leaves 1.19 out of 1,000 newborns in Uganda with inverted feet, which, if left untreated, causes significant disability. Clubfoot remains a challenge in Uganda because of lack of information about the condition, failure to detect the deformity at birth or early infancy, and limited capacity within the health system to provide correct and affordable treatment.

Every Child Matters has devised a three-pronged approach: 

• Raise awareness about clubfoot in rural communities 
• Train health workers to identify clubfoot and make proper referrals for treatment 
• Train orthopedic doctors in the Ponseti method 

 

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Identify 225 patients with clubfoot, refer them for treatment, conduct follow-up 
• Train 20 village health teams and 20 traditional birth attendants from 10 villages to ID patients 
• Write 3 proposals for follow-on funding 

 

FOUNDING TEAM

Daisy Nakasi

Mathias Mulumba

Lillian Nakisozi

Emily Ausubel

Unnoti

COOK STOVE CHALLENGE; BANGLADESH

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Efficient, clean-burning cook stoves.

Learn more about the Cook Stove Challenge and how clean cook stoves reduce health and safety risks, lower fuel expenses, and help reduce poverty.  

 

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

In rural and slum areas, families in Bangladesh confront large amounts of indoor air pollution caused by choice of cooking fuel, cooking location, construction material, and poor ventilation. Exposure to such indoor air pollution leads to harmful diseases like tuberculosis, asthma, and other respiratory diseases and disproportionately affect women and children. In Bangladesh, more than 90% of the total population uses biomass fuel for cooking and other heating purposes. The health burden of indoor air pollution exposure in the country is one of the largest in the world. 

Unnoti will work with a local manufacturer of efficient cook stoves and sell these within the rural district of Comilla at an affordable price (about half the price of similar cook stoves on the market). The team will conduct surveys and awareness raising activities within the community. 

 

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Reach 300 households in 5 villages during the pilot 
• Distribute 250 stoves during the pilot 
• Benefit 500 people during the pilot 
• Reach 35 households across 12 villages by the end of year 1 
• Distribute 1,000 cook stoves by the end of year 1 
• Benefit 3,000 people by the end of year 2 

FOUNDING TEAM

Tanjima Hoque - Managing Director

Shah Md. Nasir Rahat - Marketing Director

Md. Intisher Rahman - Human Resources Director 

Maheen Absar Neha - Exeutive Director

EnEff

SOLAR LAMP CHALLENGE; INDIA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Three solar products including solar lamps and solar lanterns. 

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

 

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

In the absence of electricity, homes frequently turn to kerosene-based light sources for illuminating their homes. The largest use of subsidized kerosene in the world is in India with around 380 million in 2011 using kerosene as a primary lighting source.  

EnEff (Energy Efficiency) will improve access to solar lamps to families in Rajasthan, India through a unique distribution network, a consumer-oriented finance scheme, and a focus on large-scale skill development of individuals living in rural areas with a unique referral scheme. 

EnEff will first hold meetings with local farmers, women's groups, local leaders, and small business owners to better understand energy and product needs in target communities.  Distribution of solar lamps will be initiated through gram panchayats (locally elected governing bodies) which are active and respected by the local population in order to build public trust in the product and its benefits. The Solar products will also be distributed through NGOs and Village Local Entrepreneurs to end consumers. Distribution channels will include a referral scheme in which every successful referral will earn the referee cash back on the initial value of their purchase amount. To benefit from this scheme, a customer will have a short compulsory briefing from the EnEff team in servicing and sales, indirectly creating a skilled workforce and a trained sales team at minimal cost to the company. Distribution will be coupled with a broad marketing and awareness raising campaign. 

 

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Reach 2600 beneficiaries by the end of the three month pilot  

• Sell 650 solar lamps by the end of the pilot phase 

• Sell 8,000 solar lamps by the end of year 1 

• Benefit 30,000 people by the end of year 1 

 

FOUNDING TEAM

Kaushal Kothari - Program Implementation  

Kartavya Bhola - Strategist 

Neeraj Bhagwatula - Sales, Distribution and Human Resources Manager 

Kavya Sravanthi - Publicity, Marketing, and Community Engagement Manager 

Safe Delivery, Safe Mother

MATERNAL HEALTH CHALLENGE; PAKISTAN

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Misoprostol.

Learn more about the Maternal Health Challenge and how the distribution of Misoprostol, a $3 drug that can prevent maternal deaths from postpartum hemorrhage, could save thousands of lives.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Safe Delivery, Safe Mother is a new social venture aiming to reduce maternal mortality in Pakistan. The team will train community midwives to prevent postpartum hemorrhage through administering a safe and cost-effective drug, Misoprostol. The three month pilot aims to train 100 CMWs within rural villages to effectively administer misoprostol, measure blood loss, and to change the communities’ perception by addressing socio-economic constraints. In the long-term, they aim to scale nationally by reaching high poverty rural areas with the highest maternal mortality rates, and play a critical role in reducing postpartum hemorrhage in Pakistan.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• 100 Traditional Birth Attendants trained during the pilot phase

• 3,500 births impacted during the pilot phase

FOUNDING TEAM

Mehreen Shahid - Founder

Annemarie Collins - Founder

Tinotenda Muchena - Founder

Soch

FLIPPED CLASSROOM CHALLENGE; PAKISTAN

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

De-skilled educational curriculum.

Learn more about the Flipped Classroom Challenge and why new education models, like flipping the classroom or deskilling a class curriculum, offer a solution to the vast teacher shortages in the developing world.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Soch works with Edtech companies and educational content producers to power flipped classrooms with continuous assessments which enable Teaching at the right level (TaRL) to help improve literacy and education quality in resource-limited classrooms.

Soch designs, implements and supervises these programs, which are then independently managed by instructors and schools.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• 250 students reached during the pilot phase

• 12,000 students reached by the end of year 2

FOUNDING TEAM

Syed Anzar Ahmad - Founder

Qantab Light Cube

SOLAR LAMP CHALLENGE; NIGERIA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Solar units and grid systems.

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

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Qantab Light Cube is a renewable energy company based in Nigeria with focus on the deployment of stand–alone portable and rooftop solar units to rural and urban homes, and solar PV micro grids systems to rural communities. The company’s primary objective is to join a growing ensemble of solution providers who proactively engage vision, expertise and action in becoming an indispensable energy provider. The team will also provide before and after sales service to customers as well information regarding their electricity consumption.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• 600 solar lamps distributed during the pilot phase

• 2 states in Northern Nigeria reached during the pilot

FOUNDING TEAM

Samuel Olufemi Sofela - Founder

Come On Girls

SCHOLARSHIP CHALLENGE; CHINA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Education scholarships for girls.

Learn more about our current distribution challenges and why we focus on interventions that are proven to impact lives.  

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

This new social venture will improve women’s education in the rural areas of developing countries. In the first three months of its launch, Come On Girls will make scholarships to 100 outstanding female students in rural China and remove the financial barrier in their path towards high school by attracting individual donors from Eastern China using the Wechat platform. Their goal is to enhance the enrollment rate of female students in the underdeveloped regions of China and to reduce gender discrimination in secondary education.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• 100 female students supported in attending high school during the pilot

• 100 one-to-one donors attracted during the pilot

FOUNDING TEAM

Menghan Li - Founder

Yun Ling - Founder

Zijia Guo - Founder