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Ghana: Bamboo Bike Ambulances for Dawea Community Health Center
The Bright Generation Community Foundation (BGCF), a non-governmental organisation (NGO), has scored a first in its effort to utilise locally available and sustainable materials to manufacture an easier means of transport for the health sector.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- transportation
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Social Entrepreneurs That Are Changing the Developing World
Corporate Social Responsibility is a trend that has been gaining more attention in recent years.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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TechLab Wants to Mentor Africa’s 10 Best Financial and Health Tech Companies
African financial tech and health tech companies can improve their businesses through a new program aimed at providing mentorship to the 10 most innovative companies in those sectors.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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FinTech Investments Quadruple: Top Trends to Watch
Investments into FinTech startups recently quadrupled, growing from just over $3 billion in 2013 to over $12 billion in 2014. And consider alongside that another trend showing that crowdfunding will surpass VC in 2016 as a funding source–given that crowdfunding itself is a segment of the FinTech market.
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Impact investing could help plug $2.5 trillion funding gap for development
Socially responsible investment can help tackle poverty, hunger and climate change. Can the fragmented industry overcome its barriers to becoming a real force for good?
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Africa Makes Leap in Cross-Border Mobile Payments
New partnerships aimed at getting a bigger slice of the $48 billion Africans sent and received last year.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Meet the Kenyan Startup Trying to Change Bill Gates’ Mind on Bitcoin
Bill Gates has been publicly skeptical about the future of the payment technology in the developing world.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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World’s First Malaria Vaccine Gets Regulatory Go-Ahead, Faces WHO Review
The world's first malaria vaccine got a green light on Friday from European drugs regulators who recommended it as safe and effective to use in babies in Africa at risk of the mosquito-borne disease.
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- Health Care
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- vaccines
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