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AWN PALLIATIVE CARE SERVICES

Palestine, MENA

70% of treatment drugs, including analgesics, are not available for cancer patients in Gaza. Travel restrictions and social stigma further impede access to care services.

"Awn", which translates to aid and support, provides home-based palliative and end-of-life care to terminally ill cancer patients through a multidisciplinary team of specialized doctors, nurses, psychologists, and other subspecialties.

BestHealth4U

Portugal, Europe

BestHealth4U (BH4U) was born from a personal story of its founder, Sónia Ferreira, after witnessing severe skin problems caused by medical devices glued to her cousin’s skin. 

adhesiv.Ai is a flexible, skin-friendly, smart adhesive dressing. It is integrated into a digital tracking software that predicts wound evolution, enabling clinicians to effectively control and manage their patients' wounds remotely. With this, adhesiv.Ai significantly reduces the cost and time wound service provision and supplies, providing a much-needed healthcare solution.

Blue Filter

Palestine, MENA

Blue Filter is a water purification company which specializes in agricultural water treatment, and headquartered in Gaza strip. 

The company offers an efficient chemical-free, environment-friendly water purification filter to purify underground water. Through a circular design of green technology, it reintroduces the chemical-free filters back into the environment either as fertilizers or feed for livestock.

Chrystal Heart

Kenya, Africa

Chrystal Heart Enterprises was initiated from Chrystal Heart CBO, to empower vulnerable households in Kenya through modern agriculture. 

The social enterprise wing of the company supports young farmers by introducing hydroponic farming and vertical gardening, through training in modern agriculture techniques and access to financing.

Curabit

India, APAC

Curabit empowers mental health professionals with tools to help identify and treat mental health problems more effectively and accurately through VR technology, inclusive of appropriately designed simulations catering to different disorders.

Through a central goal of efficient mental health care through innovation, Curabit aims to reduce costs and rates of relapse. 

Earl Greyhound

California, USA

By using the latest technologies and applying strict quality control procedures, Earl Greyhound aims to provide the safest dog treats in the industry.

With culturally and environmentally conscious efforts, Earl Greyhound aims to provide sustainable, kind, cruelty and conflict free treats for pups.

FREEDOM UNIVERSAL BANK

USA

Freedom Universal Bank is a digital bank that is designed to pay its customers a Universal Basic Income.

While the Freedom Universal Bank will be charging the exact same fees that conventional banks do, the profits that will be accumulated through this exchange will be deposited back to its customers and their communities, providing an equal monthly dividend and hence generating a UBI for all members.

MUNAY

Bolivia, LAC

Munay is a B2B web-based platform, which has identified lack of access to capital and entrepreneurial guidance as primary drivers for early-stage failure of entrepreneurs. Therefore, Munay aims to offer the following to Latin female entrepreneurs: 

• Visibility through exposing entrepreneurs' products and services inside the community. 

• Funds through a reward-based crowdfunding tool. 

• Knowledge through 1-1 mentoring with specialists in different fields.

Students Education Trust-Liberia

Liberia, Africa

The Students Education Trust-Liberia (SET-Liberia) comprises a team of professional educators and software programmers who work in consort to build a social enterprise that will improve the quality of education in Liberia. 

By setting up optimal physical and digital infrastructure, SET-Liberia aims to increase access to quality education. Furthermore, through digital training and installing solar-powered computer labs, it looks to strengthen schools’ preparedness and response to disruptions like the pandemic.

TANDEM Community

Texas, USA

Tandem Community is a postpartum digital mental health platform for women of color and culture. It focuses on developing solutions to tend to the wellbeing and mental health outcomes of women of color and their families during key life stages.

Tandem Community’s core mission is to build the solutions and tools that women of color seek as they find postpartum mental health support.

YONECO YOUTH Cultural Village

Malawi, Africa

The Youth Cultural Village serves as an ecotourism destination and a center of excellence in the preservation and communication of Malawian culture both locally and internationally through research and preservation of cultural identities of different groups.

The predominant modalities of cultural promotion include: youth cultural conferences, hospitality services and cultural libraries.

EFETI VENTURES

Cameroon, Africa

Social enterprise started by Denis Miki Foundation registered both in Cameroon and the United States of America to promote economic empowerment of under-served communities to reduce the high levels of poverty.

More details soon..

Fluent Spanish Today

El Salvador, LAC

The idea of Fluent Spanish Today, an online Spanish academy, was conceived after the founder’s encounter with tourists in El Salvador who were eager to learn Spanish for travel purposes. They are the only spanish academy that offers an online platform full of activities including Speaking Challenges with personalized feedback and corrections.

Today, the platform delivers virtual Spanish language classes and provides jobs to Salvadorans (specially women & university students of low income).

Greymatter Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

India, APAC

Greymatter works on an innovative Community Commerce and Financing Model to provide smallholder farmers access to affordable credit and quality agriculture inputs. This serves to reduce compromise of agricultural input quality due to small land size. 

The company is currently associated with 2,500+ farmers with 3,500+ acres under its service package. It has thus far delivered 80 million worth of services on credit.

Iganga Integrated Innovations Ltd

Uganda, Africa

74.8% of people in the Igangna district of Uganda are poor and in need of stable income to sustain their livelihood. Brick production as a major source of livelihood among youth involves a traditional, futile process that is physically and environmentally draining. 

Iganga Integrated Innovations has created a vertical shaft brick kilns technology to aid in shaping a novel brick building process that will help increase efficiency and reduce waste during production. 

ShortKode Technologies

Nigeria, Africa

Shortkode is a recruitment platform that helps connect teachers, who are looking for jobs, and schools, who are looking to hire, in more than five Nigerian states.

ShortKode improves student basic skills through low cost access to quality teaching aids and teachers for schools. ShortKode allows schools to hire teachers at 80% below market rate, close interviews within 5 minutes instead of industry average 4 months and gives teachers access to a large pool of employers (schools) to apply to while getting teaching aid support during classes after getting hired and/or during job search. With ShortKode the teacher meets pedagogical standards in weeks. Our mission is to improve educational outcomes drastically regardless of location with the use of technology.

heritage charity foundation

Ghana, Africa

Tain District, a predominantly agricultural community in the Bono Region of Ghana, is one of the poorest areas where over a third of the population lives on less than USD 0.70 a day. Poverty, food insecurity and low literacy levels impact women more severely.

The Heritage Charity Foundation builds the skills of women farmers by improving their technical agricultural, business and functional literacy skills to create a long-term and sustainable change. With the average household size in Tain District being 9.5, the charity estimates that its intervention will support at least 3,000 beneficiaries.

Ijebu Business School

Nigeria, Africa

Though youth in Ijebu and Remo zone, Ogun State, Nigeria have been supported to acquire financial skills, their socio-economic status remains the same due to lack of knowledge on how to start, run and sustain a business. Ijebu Business School was therefore established to provide local entrepreneurs with access to quality business training. 

IBS’ core curriculum includes: Train, Coach, Mentor and Link up (TCML), Business Training, Business Consultancy (Business Clinic Center), Incubation Hub for Start-up, and Accelerator Hub.

INNOVA

Albania, Europe

INNOVA is an Albanian consultancy firm which aims to offer and support in areas of strategic planning and drafting, public policy analysis, and providing recommendations to central and local government in: economics and social analysis, public finance, environment and agriculture, business development and SME, project management etc.

Jules & Beryl

Finland, Europe

We make jewels speak louder.

Jules & Beryl serves to market Finnish jewelry as a local mascot, and puts the pieces at the forefront for storytelling. 

They are the first platform in Finland to combine journalistic online media with curated selection of products to create timeless narrative pieces.

Kalinago Tours

Dominica, LAC

Kalingo Tours offers an authentic and high value experience to visitors of Dominica's indigenous community, the Kalinago Territory and its people. 

It serves to create sustainable income for the indigenous people of Dominica by the prudent utilization of cultural patrimony and linking it to the tourism sector, all the while preserving the pristine elements of its natural environment.

Kyusa

Uganda, Africa

Kyusa supports early-stage youth-led micro enterprises through incubator and micro-grant programs. These support services help enterprises develop relevant systems and structures that can increase scale-up potential through coaching partnerships with larger, well-established businesses.

Kyusa has, to date, provided capacity-building training to +2500 young people, which led to the creation of more than 800 MSEs that collectively provided +1,800 informal jobs. Kyusa has also provided over +50,000 hours of training and business mentoring, including study trips.

Lambano Sanctuary

South Africa, Africa

The Lambano Sanctuary is an NGO established in 2001 in response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic in South Africa. With an initial response of foster care for HIV+ orphans, the program expanded to include private & public services specializing in holistic care to children, and families of children who suffer from AIDS.

The sanctuary now plans to build the first 30-Bed Children's Sub-Acute Facility with medical, palliative and rehabilitative services, with an additional Home Based Care Facility which will provide further counseling, nutritional assistance and training and skills development for the mothers of the patients.

Nyamula Logistics

Zambia, Africa

Nyamula Logistics facilitates trade in Southern Africa as a one-stop marketplace for small scale truck owners and cargo movers.

They facilitate trade in Southern Africa moving on average 10 000 Metric Tonnes of various commodities across borders within the region.

Powersense Incorporated

Philippines, APAC

Powersense serves to deliver sustainable and cost efficient electricity solutions through end-to-end solution for end-user energy market needs.

They use an energy analytics tool to create feasibility studies of competitive electricity pricing, power plant investment evaluation, and enable higher productivity power plant commercial operations. It also supports end-user project sponsors in building their own renewable energy power plants to bridge energy market competency gaps.

Smart Girls Uganda

Uganda, Africa

Through the delivery of grassroots programs in underserved areas and slums of Uganda, Smart Girls aims to create a network of young leaders; supporting them to progress in their careers and be champions of youth-led development. 

Key programs are:

• Girls with Tools program: provides training and employment for women in vocational areas not considered traditional for women.

• Bags4Girls are solar-powered backpacks with comprehensive menstrual hygiene kits & educational programs designed by and for girls in Uganda.

Suubi Community Development Organisation

Uganda, Africa

In response to the web of rural poverty, abuse and violence faced by women in Uganda, the Suubi Community Development Organization develops women's business centers in small towns to offer training and networking through its 6 month program. 

The center also offers meetings and networking every month with other regional groups and women in the professional world of tech and entrepreneurship to provide mentorship. Thus far, the program has helped 150 women in Central and western Uganda.