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WEMAKIT FARM

  • Region: GEN Africa
  • Areas of Regeneration:
    • Social
      • Health & Healing
    • Ecology
      • Seeds, Food & Soil

The Result WEMAKIT has been able to harnessed the power of youth in agriculture, causing a shift in mindset of some communities towards sustainable agriculture. WEMAKIT has also sponsored some young people in their education and other agricultural projects which are environmentally friendly. WEMAKIT uses the following matrics of measurements are; Food production data. That is crop count and harvest count to see if harvest matches with the crop population. Social data. Goegraphic participation … Read more

PLEA FOR AFRICA

  • Impact: Community
  • Areas of Regeneration:
    • Social
      • Health & Healing

EASTE seeks to inspire, train and engage young people into sustainable agriculture through local awareness workshops, capacity building, and youth exchange networks and Hands on Practice on organic farming techniques in an attempt to fight hunger, unemployment, poverty and climate change in Cameroon for a healthier living.   Our three (3) year vision is to … … Read more

MUUTOS FOR KIDS

  • Region: GEN Africa
  • Impact: Community
  • Areas of Regeneration:
    • Social
      • Lifelong Education

Proper parenting workshops and courses, general parenting consultancy, childcare courses, reading and writing lessons and basic mathematics that gives children the best academic start in life.  We deliver our services to parents, caretakers, children, teachers and everyone who deal with children. We aim at a community where every child’s potentials are fully developed and all … … Read more

NJANGI

  • Region: GEN Africa
  • Impact: Community
  • Areas of Regeneration:
    • Economy
      • Sharing & Collaboration

The stage is being set for an emerging fshion industry, characterised by more job opportunities for young African designers and interested parties, in a few years to come. ” … Read more

SKILLSTUDY

  • Region: GEN Africa
  • Impact: Global
  • Areas of Regeneration:
    • Social
      • Lifelong Education

4 years ago the Founder of SkillStudy founded The Centre for Entrepreneurship Leadership & Business Development (CELBMD) Africa to provide world class professional skills to Africans in the areas of employability, workplace efficiency, enterprise development, leadership and technology. CELBMD Africa have been able to train and equip 8750+ in 26 African countries with relevant skills but now we want to leverage on web & mobile app technology to do more in this area and with speed and … Read more

NetRepair IvS

  • Region: GEN Europe
  • Impact: Community
  • Areas of Regeneration:
    • Economy
      • Sharing & Collaboration
      • Social Entrepreneurship

The value proposition is divided in two: Local skilled craftsmen who gets a tool to earn money, and citizen who can easily find someone who can repair their broken items, so the don't have to buy new. NetRepair takes a commission fee for every transaction made via the platform IT Developer, UX-designer, Capital to promote.    Networking in local communities and taking part in start-up workshops like SIRCle.    We do not provide a product.   NetRepair is a simple and intelligent … Read more

FRA GRUMS TIL GOURMET (FROM GROUNDS TO GOURMET) Mushroom production on waste materials - Lasse Melgaard

  • Region: GEN Europe
  • Areas of Regeneration:
    • Ecology
      • Water Cycles
    • Economy
      • Planetary Boundaries

We reuse and upcycle coffee grounds and inoculate it with mycelium from oyster mushrooms. This root-like network can absorb nutrients from the coffee grounds and use them to produce oyster mushrooms that have both medical and culinary benefits. This creates a valuable food source that can be grown in all areas of the world, thereby creating a local and sustainable alternative to meat or as an umami tasting ingredient in many dishes. Mushrooms like oysters can be grown on nearly all wood-like … Read more

AMRICH ENTERPRISE

  • Region: GEN Africa
  • Impact: Personal

This is an implant that is efficient in reducing the amount of firewood fuel used in cooking and also the smoke which has serious health implications of the women who cook in the kitchen. This targets women in rural areas who use traditional cookstoves and the urban poor who use firewood as fuel for their traditional stoves are the primary beneficiaries of this implant.   The empress is very efficient and simple implant used for traditional rounded clay stoves which uses firewood … Read more

ECOBAG GHANA

  • Region: GEN Africa
  • Areas of Regeneration:
    • Social
      • Health & Healing
    • Ecology
      • Water Cycles

We educate the public about proper disposal of waste in their communities , furthermore, students, individuals and communities received our product. We also market sanitation to the general public through the products we produce. The main beneficiaries are students, women, officers benefits from our products (school bags, laptops bags, dustbins and tarpaulins). Currently we finance the product and services ourselves thus the founders (Yeboah Paul) such as the demonstration center, sewing … Read more

Elphinstone Rainbow Village

  • Region: GENNA
  • Language: English

Food Forest: We’d like to get some more people knowledgeable in gardening or permaculture practices. We have one greenhouse area and a garden area but there is lots of potential for growing more. It would be nice to have enough food for 5 people to live off of at the community. Structures: We have 2 structures made of deadfall and wood platforms but need to add more and waterproof everything. … Read more