Easy Buy

SOLAR LAMP CHALLENGE; ZAMBIA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Solar lamps. 

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

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Easy Buy’s mission is to improve lives through distributing cost effective solar products of superior quality to far flung areas in Zambia and beyond.

Easy Buy will distribute high tech, high quality Solar Lamps to Rural Off-grid and poor grid underserved communities across Zambia. Its mission is to improve the lives of Zambians through providing them clean and reliable light. Their model is to distribute solar lamps through local Community Based Distributors and Sales Representatives who will be recruited and trained to serve the communities they live in. The venture will distribute lamps through an improved and simplified PayGo model to suit customer who live in the remotest part of the country with no mobile money services which other similar ventures use.

The company was founded in 2022 by Misheck Nkhoma. He is joined by a team of like minded passionate individuals Emmanuel and Betty with vast experience in working with rural communities.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

•  Reach 1,200 beneficiaries during pilot

• Distribute 400 Pico Solar Lamps during the pilot

• Raise an additional $15,000 during the pilot

FOUNDING TEAM

Misheck Nkhoma - Executive Director

Emmanuel Tembo - Sales Executive

Betty Mukoka - Marketing Excutive

RUMO Energy

SOLAR LAMP CHALLENGE; TANZANIA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Solar lamps. 

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

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

RUMO Energy increases the distribution of solar lamps in rural Tanzania through the rent-to-own model.

Their model is based on a competitive rent-to-own distribution through local entrepreneurs. The program targets entrepreneurs with influence and working together on mutually beneficial to support them to serve more people in their community. The RUMO Energy model is the best model to produce critical distribution networks in rural areas in Tanzania.

RUMO Energy was started on March 1, 2021, by Patrick Mkoma, Heri Marco and Sefania Amnon.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Directly reach 350 customers within three months

• Use 26 distribution agents, distribute 350 lanterns in three months

• Fundraise an addition of $30,000 from new donors and investors within three months

FOUNDING TEAM

Patrick Mkoma - Sales, Marketing & Revenue

Heri Marco - Business Development & Government Logistics

Sefania Amnon - Sales & Business Relationship

Samuel Mshana - Project Engineer & Technician

Sun Plugged

SOLAR LAMP CHALLENGE; ZIMBABWE

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Solar lamps. 

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

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Sun Plugged is a Zimbabwean-based renewable energy company aimed at distributing affordable renewable energy solutions to the last mile customer in the rural areas.

Their distribution model focuses on community empowerment through engaging community-based sales agents, also known as Community Energy Distributors (CEDs). The CEDs are well versed and are able to articulate better the needs of the community that they live in, making them our frontline and critical cog in the model. Sun Plugged uses Pay as You Go (PAYG) to plug the affordability gaps that currently exist within rural communities, in order to ensure clean renewable energy is accessible to all.

Sun Plugged was started in 2021 by Fidelis Mashonga, Shalom Makaya, Talent Mashonga and Albert Kazembe. Fidelis serves as the Chief Executive Officer, while Shalom is Operations Manager. Talent is the Accountant and Albert is the Sales Manager.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Sell 500 solar lamps that will directly benefit 2,500 people by the end of three months

• Sell 2,500 solar lamps that will directly benefit 15,000 people by the end of Year 1

• Raise an additional $150,000 in capital

FOUNDING TEAM

Fidelis Mashonga - Chief Executive Officer

Shalom Makaya - Operations Manager

Talent Mashonga - Accountant

Albert Kazembe - Sales Manager

SIRIUS Initiative

SAYANA PRESS CHALLENGE; RWANDA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Sayana Press injectable contraceptive.  

Learn more about the Sayana®  Press Challenge and why training health providers to administer Sayana® Press can be particularly valuable for women who prefer injectable contraceptives but don’t have regular access.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

SIRIUS Initiative is a social enterprise which delivers a community where everyone has access to modern contraception and every pregnancy is wanted.

SIRIUS (The brightest star in earth’s night sky) Initiative is created purposefully to tackle family planning unmet needs using a Peer-to-peer private dispensing model. A network of private dispensers will distribute SAYANA Press from our accredited store to their peers on affordable price, at door-step and at work (e.g. for sex workers) in Gasabo district (in pilot) where unmet needs of contraception is high in Rwanda.

The organization is a tightly-knighted team of 3 social entrepreneurs with a solid background in medical field and strong interests in sexual and reproductive health’s public health aspect. Emile NGABO as a coordinator and legal representative, Monique NSHUTI as Operations officer and Gratien ABANJYENZABARINDA as an officer in charge of Quality assurance, Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (QA & MEAL).

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Reach 150 women in Kigali City - Gasabo District

• Distribute 150 SAYANA Press Injections (Doses)

• Reach 20,000 people by distributing 80,000 interventions (injections) by the end of Year 2

FOUNDING TEAM

Emile Ngabo- Coordinator

Monique Nshuti - Operations Officer

Gratien Abanjyenzabarinda - Quality Assurance Officer

Oxicare

OXYGEN CHALLENGE; INDIA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Service and repair of oxygen concentrators.

Learn more about the Oxygen Challenge and why repairing and maintaining oxygen concentrators in low-resource hospitals expands access to medical oxygen - a key treatment for pneumonia, malaria, sepsis, meningitis, and Covid-19.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Oxicare is on a mission to serve over 1 Million patients by helping them service their Health Devices.

Oxicare was started with a simple mission- A Saved Life Saves Lives. The initiative’s business model revolves around recruiting and training jobless technicians from across the country and provide them job of repairing and maintaining Oxygen Concentrators in their local areas.

The organization was founded by full time Program Director Rajesh Bansal (Alumni IIT-Bombay) along with Anika Singal who has extensive experience of working as a Senior Consultant in Indian Government Advisory projects.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Reach 1,000 Customers by servicing 200 Concentrators

• Train 20 Bio Medical Engineers to service 200 Concentrators

• Raise an additional $15,000

FOUNDING TEAM

Rajesh Bansal - Director

Anika Singal - Director

Soma Organization

TEACHING AT THE RIGHT LEVEL CHALLENGE; RWANDA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) is an education program that tailors instruction to the learning level of the child, rather than their age. The result is that basic literacy and numeracy are achieved by students before they finish primary school.

Learn more about the Teaching at the Right Level Challenge and other D-Prize Distribution Challenges.

 

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Soma Organization meets struggling pupils at the level they are to help them get where they need to be.

The initiative will pilot the TaRL Model in Rwanda. The model will be centered on the pupils’ learning levels, and on the pupils, to encourage participation and responsiveness. Rather than a rigid linear curriculum, the content will be based on a pupil’s assessed learning level, and the delivery will be made fun and full of engaging activities. This will build confidence, ensure all-rounded growth and focus on foundational skills.

Soma Organization was founded by Kennedy Okello in 2021. The mission and vision of the intervention attracted like-minded individuals; Aline, Mike and Irene, forming a diverse and skilled team.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Onboard at least 15 facilitators

• Serve 250 grade 2 and 3 children

• Build a rigorous Program Design Team of at least 4 relevantly experienced and passionate staff

FOUNDING TEAM

Kennedy Okello - Program Designer

Aline Nishimwe - Project Coordinator

Irene Marra - Facilitation Lead

Better Women Health

MATERNAL HEALTH CHALLENGE; SOUTH SUDAN

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

Better Women Health (BWH) is distributing Misoprostol to reduce the high prevalence of PPH mortality, among millions of women giving birth at home, driven by remote settings of war torn South Sudan.

BWH’s model is based on “a low-cost-effective proven lifesaving solution. Together with the trained Community Health workers (CHWs), TBAs and Health workers; BWH registers pregnant women from 32 weeks of gestation to enable access to misoprostol at health facility delivery or home birth with an upskilled birth attendant. With support from BWH and Health workers, the CHWs & TBAs visit mothers at home and discuss birth preparedness plan, informing mothers of the benefits of taking misoprostol immediately after delivery to prevent excessive bleeding. BWH model is a dire demand to reduce preventable deaths resulting from PPH and saving more lives and easy to administer even by the mothers themselves.

BWH was started ten months ago (April 2021) by Judith Draleru Maturu of BHECO and Kiden Rose Buli a friend who questioned the quick solution to stop women dying from PPH. Seeing it through the tears in her eyes, made it especially personal and women for women struggle. Rose now serves as the BWH project coordinator.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Directly reach 200 women within three months

• Distribute 800 Misoprostol pills in three months

• Fundraise an additional $75,000 from new donors within three months

FOUNDING TEAM

Judith Draleru Maturu - Project Director

Rose Kiden Buli - Project Coordinator

ARC-EN-CIEL

QUALITY INPUTS CHALLENGE CHALLENGE; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO

 PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Quality seeds, fertilizer, and post-harvest storage bags) to smallholder farmers

Learn more about the Improved Farm Practices Challenge and why increasing the effective use of fertilizer has the potential to unlock significant crop yield for smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa.  

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

ARC-EN-CIEL’s mission is to increase agricultural productivity as the major source of income and employment in the South-Kivu province that will help rural communities to move out of poverty.

ARC-EN-CIEL will distribute quality farm inputs (fertilizer, seeds and post-harvest storage bags) to smallholder farmers and provide extension services on better agronomic practices through village savings groups, farmer cooperatives, and existing hardware stores.

The company was started by Waciba Swedi W’amisiand who was joined later by Byamnobe Mlongeca Evariste, Bagula Mukengere Espoir and Joseph Mkakyo Mtambala. Waciba Swedi W'Amisi serves as the Managing Directror who will oversee all days activities of ARC-EN-CIEL

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• 100 smallholder farmers trained and given the needed inputs

• 100 inputs packages (seeds and fertilzers) and PICS bags distributed to 100 smallholder farmers

• Raise additional $10,000 within the three months

FOUNDING TEAM

Waciba Swedi W’amisi - Co-Founder and CEO

Byamnobe Mlongeca Evariste - Co-Founder and HR and Finance Manager

Bagula Mukengere Espoir - Co-Founder and Program Leads

Rising Roots

POVERTY GRADUATION; UGANDA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Gender focused poverty graduation program to ultra-poor women with resources to create sustainable businesses and permanently break the poverty cycle.

Learn more about the Poverty Graduation Challenge and why an evidence-based program that combines cash or asset transfers with mentorship and other forms of financial and social support helps graduate the ultra poor from poverty.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Rising Roots empowers last mile marginal households to access resilient and sustainable livelihoods through entrepreneurship.

Rising Roots uses a one year gender focused poverty graduation program to ultra-poor women with resources to create sustainable businesses and permanently break the poverty cycle. The program has six sequenced components: Targeting, Technical Business Training, Seed Capital, Business Savings Groups, Mentoring and Social Integration. The pilot program is implemented in Mayuge District.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Enroll 60 ultra poor women into the poverty graduation program

• Launch 20 group based businesses within the community

• Raise an additional $15,000

FOUNDING TEAM

Nganda Ben - Program Director

Achen Grace - Field Coordinator

Balyebuga Kelvin - Strategic Partnership and Development Manager

SCI Smart City Development Initiative Limited

ROAD SAFETY CHALLENGE; UGANDA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Proven sticker model to reduce reckless driving and road traffic crashes.

Learn more about the Road Safety Challenge and how an evidence-based campaign targeting unsafe driving by public taxis can reduce road deaths.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Smart City Initiatives Uganda is an NGO that develops, promotes and scales-up cost-effective interventions to improve road safety.

SCI Smart City Development Initiative Limited is implementing the proven sticker model to reduce Road Traffic Crashes (RTCs) within the Great Kampala Metropolitan Area (GKMA) and other cities in Uganda. The stickers are designed with image-aids, 2d cartoons, and evocative messages in English and local languages, and are placed inside taxis, on boda-bodas, and at the back of the helmets to empower passengers to speak up to their drivers against dangerous driving.

SCI was founded in 2021 by Yusuf Kyambadde as the Director, Sharon Bayiga Natukunda as the Project Officer, Paul Maurice Ggowa as the Strategic Information Adviser, and Tony Otim whose is in charge of Monitoring and Evaluation.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Reach out to approximately 4000 taxi drivers (approx. 1000 drivers per taxi park), 1000 Boda-Boda riders with stickers by the end of three months

• Reach out to 10,000 taxis and 2500 boda-bodas, hence reducing the proportion of RTCs by nearly 24% in the Central, Kampala, Kampala Capital City Centre (KCCC) by the end of Year 1

• Reach out to 25,000 taxis and 6250 boda-bodas, hence reducing the proportion of RTCs by approximately 48% in GKMA by the end of Year 2

FOUNDING TEAM

Yusuf Kyambadde - Founder and Director

Sharon Bayiga Natukunda - Co-Founder Project Officer

Paul Maurice Ggowa - Strategic Information Officer

Otim Tony - Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

Fistula Awareness and Treatment Initiative

PATIENT IDENTIFICATION CHALLENGE; SOUTH SUDAN

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Obstetric fistula screenings.

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

Fistula Awareness and Treatment Initiative aims to identify and to help treat obstetric fistula patients from remote areas of South Sudan.

In Western Equatoria State of South Sudan, the majority of women deliver at home without a skilled birth attendant and when complications arise, as they do in approximately 30% of all births, there is no one available to treat the woman, leading to disabling injuries like fistula. The project will use women peer educators, community health workers and traditional healers to increase community awareness about the issue, with a concomitant increase in the number of patients identified and be referred to the nearby hospitals to receive the required treatment for obstetric fistula. The project will cover transportation costs for fistula patients to get treatment and will further establish fistula survivors’ solidarity groups for awareness raising and ongoing identification of other patients.

Fistula Awareness and Treatment Initiative was started December 2021 by Fidele Tuyishimire and Pio William Jey Mayot. Fidele serves as the Director of the initiative while Pio William serves as its Partnership Officer.

 

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Identify and help treating 150 fistula patients

• Empower 60 community health workers and 40 traditional healers to assist in identifying and help treating fistula patients

• Conduct 40 community awareness campaigns on obstetric fistula

 

FOUNDING TEAM

Fidele Tuyishimire- Director

Pio William Jey Mayot - Partnership Officer

Sustainable Initiative for Nutrition & Development

CUSTOM CHALLENGE; NIGERIA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Nutrition through exclusive breast milk feeding

Learn more about the Custom Challenge and why we only fund ideas that focus on distributing proven poverty interventions.

 

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Sustainable Initiative for Nutrition & Development (SIND's) exclusive breast milk feeding (EBMF) and support campaign project aims to increase exclusive breast milk feeding rate by improving health facility and community breastfeeding support continuum for lactating mothers in Nigeria.

SIND’s model is training and engaging health workers, traditional birth attendants and community influencers to promote, protect and provide supportive actions as well as uphold learning and practice exchange of exclusive breast milk feeding (EBMF) for lactating mothers sustain EBMF for 6-month. SIND exclusive breast milk feeding (EBMF) and support campaign project creates a synergy for community collective actions to support lactating mothers and shared exclusive breast milk feeding responsibilities

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Reach 1800 mother-infant dyads within six months of pilot

• Train and engage 35 (EBMF support group) champions to promote, protect and ensure lactating mothers practice exclusive breast milk feeding (EBMF) for 6-month

• Fundraise $200,000 from new donors or investors in the first two years of operations

FOUNDING TEAM

Oderinde Michael - Founder/Program Director

Union des Jeunes Filles pour le Développement

SUGAR DADDY AWARENESS CHALLENGE; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO

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

Union des Jeunes Filles pour le Développement (UJFD) leverages existing youth education programming in DR Congo to deliver and timely scale proven and cost-effective solutions that contribute to the reduction of risky of sex among adolescent girls, reduce teenage pregnancy and HIV infection rates.

UJFD will organize 1-hour anti-sugar daddy module to be delivered by experienced women/youth facilitators. This module will highlight the higher HIV risk of cross-generational relationships to limit risky sex and teenage pregnancies among adolescent girls. This module will be delivered through trained facilitators. UJFD will reach 50 schools during the pilot and reach over 5000 teenage girls in the South-Kivu Province.

Union des Jeunes Filles pour le Développement was started in 2020 by Elizabeth Pelele and Ahongo Zakaria Opulent.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Reach 5,000 students during the three-month pilot

• Organize 100 Sugar Daddy classes

• Number of schools reached (50)

• Reach 25,000 students by the end of year 1

FOUNDING TEAM

Elizabeth Pelele - Co-Founder and Coordinator

Ahongo Zakaria Opulent - Co-Founder and Program Manager

Shopner Bhubon Education

TEACHING AT THE RIGHT LEVEL CHALLENGE; Bangladesh

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) is an education program that tailors instruction to the learning level of the child, rather than their age. The result is that basic literacy and numeracy are achieved by students before they finish primary school.

Learn more about the Teaching at the Right Level Challenge and other D-Prize Distribution Challenges.

 

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Shopner Bhubon Education is a nonprofit venture that seeks to improve education attainment among primary school students in rural Bangladesh.

Shopner Bhubon Education plans to run Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) learning camps in a resource-limited and flood-prone setting in Gaidbandha, in northern Bangladesh. They will conduct workshops for 300 students between Grades 1 and 3 across 10 schools over 6 months, dividing them into groups based on their learning needs rather than age or grade, dedicating time to basic skills rather than focusing solely on the curriculum and regularly assessing their performance, rather than relying only on end-of-year examinations. This will be the first implementation of the TaRL model at scale in Bangladesh. In addition, the pilot will include students who are returning to school after over a year of being at home because of the pandemic. This program will provide evidence on how to help students catch up in their critical reading and writing skills post-pandemic.

All 3 founding members of Shopner Bhubon Education are very knowledgeable of the local school system in Gaibandha, Bangladesh, the curriculum and educational needs of the area and very enthusiastic to help in the development of the region. Shadman has extensive experience running RCTs and scaling interventions at Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) and the World Bank. Shahada has extensive teaching experience in the pilot region, currently working as the headmistress at a local school. She will be leading the volunteer recruitment, training and monitoring. Raeesa is an education manager who has worked extensively on education research and policy in Bangladesh, especially in her work for BRAC, a key NGO in the region.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• 10 active schools during the pilot phase (2 cycles, 3 months each)

• 50 teachers trained

• 1,000 students start participating in our pilot program

• 2,000 total students start participating in our now piloted program by Year 1

• 50,000 total students start participating in our programs by Year 2

FOUNDING TEAM

Shadman Rahman - CEO

Shahada Akter- COO

Raeesa Rahemin- Research Manager

Lafiya Nigeria

SAYANA PRESS CHALLENGE; NIGERIA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Sayana Press injectable contraceptive.  

Learn more about the Sayana®  Press Challenge and why training health providers to administer Sayana® Press can be particularly valuable for women who prefer injectable contraceptives but don’t have regular access.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Lafiya Nigeria trains midwives, nurses, and community health workers to become “Lafiya Sisters,” specialists in family planning. Their team ensures that new mothers in hard-to-reach communities receive family planning counselling and access to contraceptives—like injectables—right after childbirth, empowering women to take control of their reproductive health.

Their mission is to empower women to have control over their reproductive autonomy. Lafiya Nigeria was started in 2021 by Yifei Jefferson Chen and Klau Chmielowska.

PILOT RESULTS AND SCALING GOALS

• Distributed 800 doses of Sayana Press to women in three months

• Reached 2,700 women by the end of Year 1

• Reached 10,700 women by the end of Year 2

• Reach 50,000 women by the end of Year 3

FOUNDING TEAM

Klaudia Chmielowska - Co-Founder and Executive Director

Yifei Jefferson Chen - Co-Founder and Director of Partnerships

Maatri

MATERNAL HEALTH CHALLENGE; Nepal

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

Maatri aims to prevent the postpartum hemorrhage and curb the maternal deaths by the community-based door to door distribution of misoprostol (a WHO approved low cost uterotonic drug) via Female Community Health Volunteers (FCHVs).

Nepal has a very high maternal mortality rate of 186 deaths per 100,000 live births about 25% of which has been attributed to postpartum hemorrhage (PPH). Due to long distances to health facilities, most women die from postpartum hemorrhage in the communities as they try to deliver under the care of unskilled traditional birth attendants. The number of institutional deliveries is woefully low in most parts of Nepal and an estimated two-thirds of women still give birth at home with no skilled birth attendant present.

Maatri’s model seeks to train the FCHVs on PPH and the role of misoprostol in its management. They will then go door-to-door in the communities to provide antenatal counseling and instructions to pregnant women and household decision makers on how to dispense misoprostol. The pilot project will operate in province 6, one of the most rural regions of Nepal.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Directly reach 300 women during the pilot phase

• Use 15 trained Female Community Health Volunteer’s (FCHVs) to distribute 300 doses of misoprostol tablets during the pilot phase

• Secure an additional $25,000 USD funding within the first three months

FOUNDING TEAM

Dr. Preeti Shakya - CEO & Founder

Bihani Gurung - Field Trainer

Abhishek Shakya - Accounts, Procurement and Logistics Manager

Prithak Shrestha - Communications and Advocacy Officer

Soma Sawa

TEACHING AT THE RIGHT LEVEL CHALLENGE; KENYA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) is an education program that tailors instruction to the learning level of the child, rather than their age. The result is that basic literacy and numeracy are achieved by students before they finish primary school.

Learn more about the Teaching at the Right Level Challenge and other D-Prize Distribution Challenges.

 

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Soma Sawa will aggressively intervene at the right time to close the gaps in education before students become unsuccessful. Using Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) methodology, the venture will target 3rd to 5th grade students who are left behind in their classrooms to quickly help them catch up in Literacy and Numeracy. Soma Sawa will leverage resources from University partners, community volunteers, education enthusiasts and parents to offer a robust but cost effective innovation to students.

Dorothy Dulo is the founder of Soma Sawa. The founding team members are Joyce Wambare, Brian Etole, Ann Mamboleo, and Linda Akoth.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Reach 400 students during the pilot period

• Raise $10,000 of funding during the pilot period

• Reach 15,000 students by the end of year 1

• Reach 50,000 students by the end of year 2

FOUNDING TEAM

Dorothy Dulo - Founder/Director

Impact Energy

SOLAR LAMP CHALLENGE; ZAMBIA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Solar lamps. 

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

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Impact Energy was founded by Mapalo Wamushilo and co-founded by Mwemba Mvula. The venture will distribute solar lanterns in partnership with last mile mobile money booths.

The business model is based on working with mobile money service providers to distribute solar lanterns with agents working under them to work in rural field communities to do sales and marketing. The project will be implemented in rural Zambia, where the team has experience working in rural communities to deliver development through schools.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Distribute 500 solar lamps during the three-month pilot through a network of 30 agents

• Raise an additional $40,000 during the three-month pilot

• Reach 440,000 people by the end of year 2

FOUNDING TEAM

Mapalo Wamushilo

Mwemba Mvula

Learning Aid Initiative for Children Underprivileged (LAICU)

TEACHING AT THE RIGHT LEVEL CHALLENGE; NIGERIA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) is an education program that tailors instruction to the learning level of the child, rather than their age. The result is that basic literacy and numeracy are achieved by students before they finish primary school.

Learn more about the Teaching at the Right Level Challenge and other D-Prize Distribution Challenges.

 

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Learning Aid Initiative for Children Underprivileged (LAICU) delivers the Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) education program in rural primary schools to improve basic reading and math skills before students graduate from primary schools.

In collaboration with the State Universal Basic Education Board and Local Government Education Secretary, LAICU is able to access classrooms of public primary schools to deliver TaRL education Program, while also maintaining interaction with foundations that provide support and intervention for quality primary school education. The program’s recruitment process provides TaRL training to graduates with National Certificate in Education or holders of first degree whom are unemployed within the intervention communities. They serve as volunteer TaRL instructors in their communities where the TaRL program is implemented.

This model will be launched at three public schools in Riyom District, Plateau State benefiting up to 250 pupils. An initial baseline assessment will be undertaken to group pupils in their appropriate learning levels. This data will be utilized by the instructors in the TaRL classrooms to provide the appropriate reading and math activities to the pupils.

The learning camp commences with a lunch break immediately after regular school hours before providing pupils with reading and math activities for two hours daily.

LAICU was founded by Kangyang Pam, Gideon Wang and Dura Moses in August 2020. They are passionate about rural development and aspire to bridge the educational gap of children in rural communities

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Reach 250 students during the pilot period

• Train 18 community volunteers to serve as TaRL instructors in three public schools during the pilot period

• Raise $10,000 from local donors and government collaboration within first 3 months

• Reach 1,000 students by the end of year 1

• Reach 5,000 students by the end of year 2

FOUNDING TEAM

Kangyang Musa Pam - Project Coordinator

Gideon Wang - Programme/M&E Manager

Dura Moses - Lead Content Development/ Mentor

HealthPort

OXYGEN CHALLENGE; NIGERIA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Service and repair of oxygen concentrators.

Learn more about the Oxygen Challenge and why repairing and maintaining oxygen concentrators in low-resource hospitals expands access to medical oxygen - a key treatment for pneumonia, malaria, sepsis, meningitis, and Covid-19.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

HealthPort improves access to medical oxygen through digitized clinician support and oxygen equipment asset management.

HealthPort is a health tech venture improving access to quality medical care by using digitized solutions to efficiently manage care delivery and resource availability in low-resource settings. Using low-cost solutions, we intend to improve oxygen access and hypoxemia outcomes by strengthening capacity among local biomedical technicians, improving clinician ability to assess oxygen needs using simple quality improvement interventions, and medical asset management for rural healthcare facilities in Nigeria.

The HealthPort solution focuses on improving care delivery skill sets and establishes a foundation for digital medical device assets management. Maintaining oxygen concentrators under our distribution model will improve access to medical oxygen and increase prioritization of low flow oxygen needs.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Train 10 biomedical technicians to service 50 Oxygen concentrators, reaching 1,000 patients during the pilot phase.

• Improve clinician ability to assess oxygen need by 80% and decrease hypoxemia related mortality in regions where we work by 20-40%.

• Raise an additional $20,000 within 3 Months

FOUNDING TEAM

Aishat Adeniji - Co-Founder/Clinical Operations Lead

Oladeji Sofoluke - Co-Founder/ Health Center Relations

James Adebayo - Biotechnician