Entries For: August 2007
2007-08-28
Keely Stevenson - Kenya & Tanzania
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Acumen Fund Fellow - Class of 2007
Her lessons: for a social venture targeting the bottom of the pyramid, the distribution channel is of the utmost importance. And pricing has to be right, too!
She tells Global X how difficult those decisions were for her: is $6 per net the right price, or $3? Why not $1.50? Should we subsidize the production of mosquito nets, or should we aim at being sustainable and giving the market a voice?
Listen to Keely's voice.
(This is Keely Stevenson's second interview with Global X. You may want to watch the first one here.)
2007-08-21
Jocelyn Wyatt - Kenya
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Acumen Fund Fellow - Class of 2007
In this three-minute interview, Jocelyn Wyatt, who was based in Nairobi, describes how she improved the corporate culture in the malaria treatment company where she worked.
2007-08-14
Mathias Craig - blueEnergy
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Watch Mathias Craig as he tells Global X how he felt (not too good!) the day he came back to Nicaragua only to realize that the community was using electricity to watch Mexican telenovellas (soap operas).
That is, until his brother walked by the school...
Mathias Craig, Américain par son père et Français par sa mère, a lancé blueEnergy pour fournir de l'électricité à un coût très bas aux communautés rurales d'Amérique du Sud. Il fabrique donc des éoliennes et les lie à des panneaux solaires.
Il explique à Global X qu'il était très déçu lorsqu'il s'est aperçu que les paysans utilisaient leur installation électrique seulement pour regarder des feuilletons mexicains à la télévision.
Jusqu'au moment où son frère est passé devant l'école du village...
2007-08-07
Sam Goldman - d.light design
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A returned Peace Corps volunteer in Benin who grew up in Mauritania, Pakistan, Peru, India and Rwanda, he studied biology and environmental studies in Canada and received his MBA from Stanford.
He just launched d.light design, the social venture that received best honors at the recent Global Social Venture Competition held at Berkeley.
Watch Sam as he explains his ambitious goals and describes his a-ha moment: “My neighbor’s son in Benin was badly burned by a kerosene lamp. I want to provide a source of light that is safe and cheap.”
And read let there d.light, his new blog on Social Edge.
