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I am a the Creative Founding Director or Cabana & Co, a Botswana based company retailing furniture made by local artisans all throughout the country and also offering interior design services to residential, corporates and hospitality clients.

The Youth Partnership for Aquaculture Development SL Ltd is a start up company that is involved in the production of fish and fish feed as an Aquaculture product. The problem the company is solving is the shortage of fresh fish in local fish market for fish consumers and local fish feed unavailability problem faced by small and medium scale catfish farmers is Sierra Leone.
The company’s value proposition is to supply healthy fresh fish and create the local accessibility of fish feed to local farmers in effort of strengthening the local fish farming value chain of Sierra Leone.
The company have two products: we produce/culture/grow Tilapia and Catfish and also locally produce fish feed call “Aqua Green Feed” which is farmstead made from Agro waste and other organic scraps. As a start up, our primary product is the Catfish which has high market demand by our customers. We sell the catfish in their table size stage and the tilapia fish at the fingerling and adult stage respectively. The core vision is reduce the pressure on the ocean from capture fisheries engagement whiles providing employment opportunity for women amen youths through fish farming and light scale manufacturing.
The company also offer the following services:
1. Training on Aquaculture entrepreneurship
2. Water quality test analysis
3. Pond construction
4. Fish processing and value addition.

The company’s revenue streams therefore is benched on both transactional and service driven stream.

The scope of our Aquaculture business is on a medium frame so far. To put in words, the company is located in Moyamba District, southern Sierra Leone around the University community. The farm size of the company is located on an acre of land , with two large concrete fish ponds and a feed production house.
The pond sizes are 350m2 *150m2 and has a fish stick holding capacity of 1000 each.
The company has over 175 customers for the catfish fish product; 105 customers for Tilapia and 15 potential fish farm customers for the fish feed. 75% of the total custom of the catfish and the Tilapia are students in the nearby university, community residents and staffs in the same community where the business is operating. Whiles, 7 of the customers for the fish feed are in the near by towns where their respective farms are located.
Majority of the customers of the fish products are women and food sellers, since 75% of the Sierra Leone population depends on fish as their most comfortable and affordable source of animal protein.
The farm however have space for expansion of sensitive components that could boost the company’s operations in actualizing its vision.

Our company provides two novel products in order to make green energy more accessible to customers. 1) We manufacture solar PV window blinds that are easy to install/remove making them accessible to tenants and sectional title properties where space, freedom and ownership is often a barrier to installing a solar system. 2) We are developing a web-based API and platform that allows customers to complete an easy, visual and data-driven energy assessment and then links them to products and suppliers that are able to meet their energy needs.

There are currently 3.7 million out of a total of 17.2 million households in South Africa that are occupied by tenants. There are also more than 450 sectional title schemes that house over 100 families each on average, in addition to multiple rural areas that lack electricity grid infrastructure. Our solar PV product has the potential to serve these customer segments as well as international markets by providing a unique turn-key product that holds multiple advantages over roof/ground mounted solar panels. Our web-based energy assessment and referral platform also has the potential to support other businesses within the industry by generating quality sales leads and connecting customers to reputable retailers and service providers in their local areas, allowing them to determine costs before deciding on transitioning. These two products combined will make the customer journey for anybody considering transitioning to greener energy simple, informative and cheap, thus increasing the uptake of this technology and creating positive impact towards climate and the economy.

Tag Your Delivery is a township online goods delivery service, mobile application system that makes it possible for people to order products of their choice online from several selections of products that are available on the business mobile app. People can order groceries, clothing and hardware and get them delivered to their doorstep.

We are servicing townships in Durban with a goal to expand to other township areas. We are currently servicing the PINK area (Phoenix,Inanda,Ntuzuma and Kwamashu) with a population of over 750000 people. We seek to increase our market reach so that our e-commerce app can be known across all the townships in South Africa and Southern Africa as a whole.

An agricultural business we focus in horticulture producing vegetables such as tomatoes, butternuts, watermelon, green peppers, okra, green beans, cabbages and herbs .

My customers are Chain stores, Hawkers, individuals and the government.

Erba farm is an urban farm that produces culinary herbs. Culinary herbs are a healthier alternative to spices. We currently have a range of 7 herbs which are: mint, parsley, rosemary, coriander, rocket, oregano and basil. We are also looking to soon Agro-process related by-products.

We produce herbs for particularly health conscious people who need a healthier alternative flavoring to spices. We have been supplying a big retailer since 2019 and recently signed an off-take agreement to supply a chain retailer with herbs in 7 of their stores. We also supply restaurants from time to time. Our farm is situated 15minutes from the Gaborone city and its along the road, so there is easy access to market.

The Popsicle Company is a gourmet ice cream company that specializes in alcoholic infused popsicles. We can turn almost any cocktail into a mouth watering popsicle.

We currently have 20-30 consistent customers. Our target market is approx 10000 people between the ages of 18-45 years old. Our geographic area is mainly Gaborone, however, we are being invited to participate in events all over the SADC region so it has potential to be much bigger.

Fin-Edu is registered with CIPA in Botswana as a business since 2018, and operates as a for-profit social enterprise. To this date we offer:
1. Monthly financial literacy programme called, FUN MONEY DAY for children aged 8 to 14. The programme include other critical life skills such as leadership, team work and public speaking. The programme is offered in a park environment to allow free and fun learning, we also use active learning and teaching methods and learner-centred methods. Parents pay a subsidised fee of USD15 per child, each month. Each month have a specific topic that we focus on.
2. We have developed books for parents to get them to gain confidence and knowledge of how to teach their children money skills from an early age. The book is sold for USD20.
3. We have developed a Money-Smart Planner for children from 9 years and above. The Planner is a workbook that helps children to set goals, save, budget, track spending and write a business plan. A child uses the Planner for 12 months, it is designed to cover their financial year. The Planner is sold for USD15.
4. Other financial literacy programmes we run for free in schools, using the Aflatoun Curriculum because Fin-Edu is an implementingpartner of the organisation since 2019.
4. Going forward, we aim to run Money Smart Programmes in preschools at USD15 per month, per child.
5. We also aim to run e-learning classes for children at subsidised cost to ensure that they are also part of the fourth industrial revolution, especially through educational technology (EdTech)
6. Lastly, we aim to produce content on financial literacy targeting children and avail it for social media or television.

Our business is scalable. Although currently we are operating in the city, Gaborone. In May we will launch Fun Money Day in Selibe Phikwe, a mining town in Botswana. We hope to have this programme run in other parts of the country and expand regionally in SADC, and ultimately Africa. Our programmes are unique and integrate best practices in education and financial education. With technology, it wil be much more scalable as e-learning platform will allow anyone anywhere in the Africa to enrol for the programme.

Currently, we have more than 100 loyal paying customers, but once we are fully functional we can establish more than 500new clients in Preschools just in the City, now expanding to other areas this number can triple to 1500 clients who will be making consistent monthly payments.

In terms of beneficiaries, we have more than 300 children and youth who have benefited from our free financial literacy programmes.

By using a solar-powered motorcycle Agki medical laboratory offers a digital mobile clinic for anaemic patients’ especially pregnant women and children under the age of five years living in rural communities by providing free Health education, affordable Hemoglobin test and drugs such as folic acid.

Up to date, we saved customers 6000 per year from rural communities, Reduce maternal deaths caused by Anemia by 40%, increased learning capacity for children under age five, Reduce carbon emissions average of 529kg per month due to using solar-powered motorcycles, saving time for our customers can able to access our services through their mobile phone and we reduce transport cost to our customers from an average of 6usd to zero cost.

Fro'Niques is a natural cosmetics and beauty company based in Gaborone, Botswana. We formulate and sell homemade natural hair care products using plant-based ingredients like shea butter, mango butter, marula oil and a mix of herbs that help in hair growth, strength and volume. At Fro'niques we do not just sell hair care products, we offer hair consultation services to our clients to understand their hair problems before we can recommend the product, this is what makes us different and stand out from our competitors. We offer hair styling and treatment services, we sew and sell hair accessories like satin bonnets, satin pillow cases and African earrings. We offer all in-house hair care services so that our clients know they can get access to everything they need for their hair. Currently we have 5 hair care products like Fro'Niques Hairbutter, Hair Growth oil, Leave-in conditioner, curling custard and Shampoo bars.

The natural hair industry is a growing one, research shows that nowadays most people are going natural. People have started embracing their natural hair but what we have realized is that most of them no matter how much they love it they have challenges taking care of it and that is were we come in as Fro'Niques. Botswana's population is approximately 2.3 million and we only want 5% of the market looking at our current capacity to supply but we do not limit ourselves as we are looking to grow with time, we are at the moment in communication with a few retails stores in Gaborone to list our products so that we can reach clients in all corners of the country and even outside.

Tobias Executive Designs manufacture various types of clothing for both men, women and children. We offer custom making designs for individuals, and mass production for corporates and schools. We Consult, design and make garments according the individual or organization's preferred style. Our products range from Protective overalls, school uniforms, army wear and blazers, trousers and dresses.

We design, cut and make garments to our various customers. we have a total 25 individual per month with atleast 5 being new clients and atleast one organization per month on corporate wear designs. we currently supply 30% of the domestic market most of them being high earning working men and women aged between 30 to 60 years on custom making designs and we also work with government organizations such as the army, police and immigration department for production of uniforms. We also work with non governmental bodies such as World Health Organization, Debswana and SADC.

Our unique value proposition is that we manufacture reusable sanitary pads that are made from a high absorbent microfiber material, waterproof material, cotton material and eco-friendly. They contain no harmful chemicals, no fragrances, no dyes. Our pads are 100% biodegradable and 100% URV sterilized. In addition, we offer the lowest prices and highest quality too. A short description note/illustration booklet written by us to guide them on its use and also raise awareness of menstruation to break the taboos around menstruation

Training and development of team to support expansion.
Introduction of multiple line of sanitary products.
Expansion to all 16 districts by training resident teams to produce and market product.
Partnership with sexual and reproductive health organizations and companies.

As services, we build websites, Softwares and mobile applications for companies and any enterprises, software and applications maintenance, and more IT services, as product we sell custom management softwares (CRM, ERP, accountant softwares, HR, sales management, and more), in addition we are giving computer science courses in demand to particulars (for companies) and also in class to limited numbers of learners.

We already have up to 15 customers, and trained up to 20 people in web development, as we are growing now by getting more parteners, we will have up to 10 customers each month and keep training up to 50 people (in class) each year and up to 1000 students online.

We provide a legitimate channel for artisanal and small scale miners to carry out their trade and exert their skills in the mining industry. We do this by providing registered mining claims -acquired through the government of Zimbabwe-to individuals that are interested in or have the talent and capacity to carry out mining activities. Miners without resources but with the necessary expertise are put on a waiting list until the association is ready to allocate resources towards these miners in order for them to begin working. This process has an indefinite period currently. Miners produce gold which is processed through processing equipment provided by the association. This gold is sold off to legal buyers in Zimbabwe i.e Fidelity Printers and Refiners and the proceeds are handed back to the miners after deducting the expenses incurred by the miners throughout the entire process, a handling fee of 30% is also withheld by the association in order to facilitate a 10% mandatory donation towards charitable organizations and community development. Another 10% is saved towards rehabilitating the land that the miners use and the last 10% goes towards securing training and rehabilitation seminars for our miners.

Currently the association supports just over 100 artisanal miners, down from a peak of 300 miners across two provinces (Manicaland and Midlands) during the years 2019-2020. During the period 2020- until now we scaled down operations in order to acquire more resources and reduce pressure on the available resources and mining claims at the time. This initiative has seen the association acquiring just over 400 hectares in mining concessions, now ready and available to begin mining and exploration works. These mining concessions are situated across three provinces in Zimbabwe i.e Manicaland, Mashonaland and Midlands. We anticipate to have a capacity of 1000 miners being supported through our initiative by end of 2023. We also anticipate to increase our mining concessions to 800 hectares during the same year.

We operate in the agri-food sector and in particular in the natural honey sector of the DRC.
We aim to control the entire value chain, from production to packaging and commercialisation. Since 2019, MANNAhas been working with small producers to bring bee products to market, at the same time ensure a fair and stable income for their families while guaranteeing the quality of the product. Before being processed and packaged in Kinshasa, the raw materials are harvested in different regions of the country.

Manna produces 100% pure and authentic honey, available currently in five different varieties, packaging options and portion sizes.It offers DRC honey varieties to the local Congolese market with the goal of serving the export market in the long term.

Our business model is composed of two phases:

Phase 1:
The purchase of honey from beekeepers' associations at a fair and equitable price.
Then packaging and marketing of honey of unique varieties in different packaging options, formats and prices, through many distribution channels.
Phase 2:
Setting up partnerships for material support, training and technical supervision in order to guarantee the development of beekeeping production in the DRC
Since its inception MannaLola has been making a positive social and economic impact on rural communities in the DRC by engaging them in honey production.
This solution creates scalable, income-generating opportunities, lifting thousands of people out of poverty and reducing the alarming rates of deforestation in the region.

Current Stage

Since June 2019, the MannaLola brand has conquered a large share of the local honey market in Kinshasa, DRC.
Currently in 8 supermarket chains in the capital with over 30 stores, the biggest hotels as well as 2 cafes, MannaLola offers honey for many different consumers and segments.
Having sold almost 2 tonnes of honey in our second year of activity, earning about $22,000 in revenue, our aim is to substantially increase our visibility and brand on the local market.
We have partnered with a recognised international organisation, ULB Cooperation, for technical beekeeping expertise and to support our development project.

Our founder and CEO has been recognised for the honey development project as the finalist of the Prix Pierre Castel 2021 which will allow for an increase in financing and investment of materials and equipment to thevalue of $23,000 in the third year.

After my experience traveling to Nairobi as I was on the plane getting back to my home country, I realised that they were only 11 Congolese passengers out of more than 200 whom majority couldn’t speak French so I wondered how their stay would look like. As the DRC is a French-speaking country with 105 044 646 habitants, surrounded by 9 English-speaking countries, I have assessed a need for communication that requires sworn translation and interpretation, speech interpretation and language training in my region.

Based on the communication needs assessed by us between neighbours, investors, local partners, we ensure efficient communication by translatingcontents, interpreting verbal speeches and teaching languages, All of that from French to English, Chinese and local languages. We help all the parties to partners together and enjoy their relationships to the fullest.

Our Target Market is the15 Million Educated Congolese based in Urban areas. The population growth in DR Congo is estimated at 3.2 % per year, and over 4000 companies officially registered for Lubumbashi, more than the half are multinationals coming from USA, Australia, Canada, China, and India. Banks and NGOs are part of them as well. There are also official institutions, people and students traveling abroad.

More and more people now want to start eating healthy as the pandemic has shifted their mindset on being health conscious. Now more than ever, people are joining the gyms to either lose weight, gain muscle or simply keep fit. But what they do not know is that their daily diet affects them negatively from not achieving their gym goals. My idea is to develop an online e-commerce site that allows people who are starting or ending their gym sessions to order and pay for readymade healthy meals and drinks to be delivered to them at the gyms. In addition, we also intend to have a monthly subscription model to deliver weekly healthy lunch & dinner meals and drinks to household’s individuals and people at their work place. The e-commerce site focuses on people who want to start eating and drink healthy foodstuffs with a variety of packaged product ranges to choose from on a weekly basis. We intend to partner up with a local eco-friendly delivering company called E-Bikes for all our deliveries to contribute positively to our environment. Our business model is to charge per meal, drink and delivery which clients will pay with their debit/credit card online. With the monthly subscription model, payment will be deducted directly from the client’s bank account.

In our first year which will be this year, we intend to launch our fideats e-commerce platform in the capital city of Namibia which is Windhoek that has a total population of 446,000 people. If I had to break down our right total Addressable/Available Market for our business idea, we have 14 registered gyms in Windhoek. We have nucleus health & fitness gym with 510 members, Genesis fitness Namibia with 2034 members, Virgin active kleine kuppe + Maerua mall with more than 16,000 members, Trinity fitness with 258 members, Iron house gym with 305 members, Green zone health + fitness gym 181 members, body 20 with 4623 members, aqua swimming + fitness club 609 members, crossfit Windhoek with 1042 members, Venus ladies gym & health centre 6191 members, pulse perfectfit studio 496 members, Powerflex gym Namibia has 463 members and lastly ac boxing + fitness gym with 60 members that makes our total gym addressable market at 32,772. With the monthly subscription addressable market, Windhoek has households totalling to 112 305 and from this, 41,900 are informal housing structures. We will only be targeting urban households because of delivery issues and crime in rural areas. Our TAM for household’s subscriptions is (total households 112,305 – informal households 41,900 = 70,405 households). The subscription for delivery at workplaces, there is no available data that quantifies how many employees are employed in Windhoek. To give a great market segmentation with our work delivery subscription, it would be mostly government employees and big private companies employees.

Gysha Farm is an agro-pastoral enterprise, we are in the poultry sector where we produce broilers, we are also in the beekeeping sector where we produce and package honey and since December 2021 we also stabilize and package palm wine under the brand Libondo. A broiler chicken is sold at 7$, a kilogram of honey at 10$ because honey is measured in kg and a box of 24 pieces of Libondo palm wine at 30$.

Our customers are mainly the inhabitants of the city of Goma and its surroundings but also the neighboring provinces request our services because in almost all the provinces of the DRC there is on the market only broilers imported from Brazil. So the customers in search of healthy chickens without preservatives contact us from far away to be served. We present our customers without counting those of the outside of the city: the hotels (15), the restaurants (13), the super markets (6) as well as more than fifty households of Goma which we deliver to residence the whole chickens or in cuts according to the order.

CAIM : Centre de l’Agriculture Intégrée Moderne (Center for Modern Integrated Agriculture - CAIM) www.centreagriinnov.com is an innovative project that provides concrete and important solutions linked to unemployment of young people and women in largely rural areas, the rural exodus, the flight of brains, illegal immigration, climate change and the restoration of areas degraded by human beings.
The main mission of this center is to produce various trees for reforestation, to give professional advice in the design and implementation of integrated agriculture projects and environmental protection and to promote holy agricultural products at the national and international level, the training and support of the young people of the said center to contribute to the development of the country by giving them practical and theoretical knowledge, while respecting the objectives of sustainable development of the United Nations. Today, we have grown and planted over 50 000 trees in areas degraded by some mining companies and individuals in the Republic of Guinea.
And we make money by selling our products and providing service to our customers without the exorbitant costs.

We have been in the development phase of our CAIM (Center for Modern Integrated Agriculture) project since 2019 in the Republic of Guinea. Nowadays we have 17 full time workers and 25 tacherons (not full time) who are mostly young people and women in rural areas, coming from disadvantaged families. We also have 357 loyal customers in our database and loan out up to 5 new customers per day. We have grown, planted and monitored over 50,000 plants of various trees for reforestation and agroforestry in degraded areas in several rural areas in Guinea.

M-TETO Search Engine is a mobile educational technology/application that uses Law, Artificial Intelligence and Gamification to prevent and adequately respond to incidences of SRGBV and the consequences, thereof.
M-TETO is an evidenced-based intervention that addresses the 4 core enablers of SRGBV mentioned above; and centralises the entire SRGBV justice ecosystem. It includes the following functionalities:
1. A bespoke search engine which enables End-Users to:
• Address SRGBV through education in law, human rights, equity, intersectionality, economic and public health-related content.
• Simplify the process of obtaining the support and assistance required by freely providing all necessary information, resources, process and access.
• Empower victims, potential victims and bystanders to tackle SRGBV.
• Hold critical institutions in the process accountable.
2. Safe artificial intelligence driven big-data mapping and visualisation which enables stakeholders (customers) to safely aggregate insights in line with international and regional standards. This empowers stakeholders (customers) to safely:
• Access anonymous disaggregated data on service provider performance.
• Access anonymous disaggregated data on end-users perceptions and behaviours.
• Access a concentrated audience of children and youth who are at risk and inaccessible.
• Implement effective and appropriate interventions to prevent and respond to SRGBV.
3. Expert and Specialised Consulting and Advisory
• Consulting and advisory on issues related to SRGBV will be offered.
• Customised data and analysed data will incur a fee, frequent data reports can also be developed along with dashboards and customised reporting and metrics for consumption by clients will also incur a fee.
4. License Agreements
• A public private partnership or a Social Impact Bond with government and other partners would be an ideal arrangement where all aspects of the monitoring and evaluation of the justice value chain for SRGBV issues is concerned.

M-TETO has potential scale across the globe because this is a global crisis and young people are the largest group using cell phones and their software applications both within and outside of the educational context.
However, we are currently piloting and preparing for launching within South Africa in early 2023. Thereafter, we shall be looking to scale across Africa, in mid-2023. Thereafter, we shall be looking to scale in other regions outside of Africa. We have very good relations with stakeholders and customers that have show an interest from the United Kingdom; as well as the United States and India.
South Africa has 25 000 schools (23 000 public and 2 000 private).
There are 12 Million school-going children within this ecosystem.
4 out of 5, or 81%, of secondary school students in South Africa own or have access to a mobile phone.
If we take into account the high rates of dropout from schools across the country, then this would means that there are approximate 4.5 million secondary education students. Of the students in secondary education, 3.6 Million students have access to mobile devices (either provided to them by the education system or their parents/guardians).
This number is set to increase as the South African government is working diligently to ensure that all South African schools are digitised. This means that there are future prospects of growth for this geographical market alone.
The goal is to roll out across South Africa's main provincial economic hub called Gauteng, which has the highest mobile device penetration in the entire country and nearly 6000 schools and nearly 2 Million students.

At Cabana & Co we specialize in manufacturing and trading furniture and decor pieces made by Batswana. The aim is to avail market to the smaller talented guys who otherwise would not be getting sales because of geographical reasons or any other reasons. We celebrate interior design as an art and the capabilities of various people.

We are currently an online store selling and shipping throughout Botswana with a customer base of over 1000.We are anticipating shipping to South Africa and Namibia by the second quarter of the year and Zimbabwe and Zambia later in the year.

The company has a successive milestone journey, it is fully registered with country’s Cooperate Commission Affairs and have technical personnel’s to deliver the objectives of the company.
The company biggest opportunity is the introduction of a new product which is the Aqua Green Feed. local fish feed availability in Sierra Leone has been a crippling factor that has dented the growth potential of Aquaculture over decades, with our intervention as a start up company who have the right team set to deliver, we have successfully develop our first prototype that has been tested and currently under review from scientific advices to get the final MVP. This product when launched in the fish farm industry of Sierra Leone will attract lot of investment in Aquaculture since fish feed unavailability locally has been the stumbling block holding lot of people to getting involved in fish farming in Sierra Leone, thinking of the switching cost on importation.
The other big opportunity the company holds is to get a license from the National Standard Bureau to certify the qualityof our fish feed product as a new product, this this will be the first locally made fish feed product that have gotten national recognition.
This product will also attract foreign investment and international market into the subregions for potential supply to their fish farming community.

The challenges the business is facing include the following below:
1. The business has challenge in getting the right machinery set to produce the actual MVP (for the fish feed product).

2. The other challenge is in maintaining staffs since it’s not generating too much as a startup to pay as expected.

3. The other challenge is in securing a good space where water availability is perennial for the culture of the fish.

4. Another current challenge attached to the 3 above is water sourcing problem as a result of lack of well dug borehole.

4. We also have challenge in getting a good brand for our products.

5. Another challenge our business is facing is the lack of a hatchery structure/unit where we can easily propagate our fish through breedingfor large scale stocking and fish fries production that can equally attract new market.

6. We also have challenge in transport mechanism of our fish products to the markets, no vehicle to ease the burden.

7. Lastly, storage systems for our fresh fish products eg freezer is also not available at the moment, thus pose a challenging in our post harvest activities.

We have received grant funding to assist us in developing a market ready version of our product. The next big step is to obtain the required certifications (SABS and RoHs) in order to introduce this product to the market. Our timeline to have this completed is December 2022. We also hope to raise funds to purchase specialised manufacturing equipment which will allow us to in-source the fabrication of many of our product components thus reducing production costs and creating more permanent jobs within our company.

One of our greatest challenges is obtaining capital funding for infrastructure and equipment in order to set up a multidisciplinary team to achieve our various business goals. Our team is in need of marketing, sales, legal and technical support and have had to outsource many of these roles as we do not have the premises and equipment required to employ and support such a team full-time.

The next big opportunity for us to upload more products on our platform then market our application. We have booked in 2000 smmes who we will allow to upload a maximum of 20 products. Thereafter we will aggressively market the app and improve our traction.

Our challenge is marketing and technical expansion funds. If we fund our marketing plan it will then allow us to to reach wider audience so that our app will get to be known by many people.

There is a ban of vegetable importation in Botswana because our government made the decision that local farmers must focus in the production of vegetables, so this industry presents a lot of opportunity for us local farmers.

-Lack of funds for expansion of the business.

Erba farm is now looking to add value into their value chain by increasing the shelf-life of their produce through drying their herbs. Our produce will then be diversified in two ways, the fresh range and the dry range. The dry range will enable us to then explore the export market and make Erba farm international. Our expansion will enable us to have enough capacity for the international market.

Erba farm has the challenge of securing funds to expand. We have the goal to be able to supply off-season herbs but this can only be achieved if we had greenhouses for our winter months. The greenhouses would also protect our produce against harsh weather conditions like extreme heat, storms and hail weather. This would then reduce one of the biggest risks that farmers generally have. Currently, our contribution to our expansion is at $15000, but we need more for our infrastructure.

We would like to have access to a truck that will allow us to transport our machine so we can attend events in other cities and countries. So far we have been invited as far as Zambia to participate in food festivals but we cannot go because of transport issues.

One of our biggest challenges is temperature. Because it is a frozen food we need to either maintain it’s temperature which mean getting a refrigerator truck to transport our product or we transport our machine to wherever we are going and make the products there. We still need to store them during the event so we need to have storage that can maintain the negative temperatures consistently.

The next big opportunity is to develop an e-learning platform that will integrate gamification and allow fun learning of financial lietracy and business concepts from an early age. We hope to run this platform in both private and Government schools.

The main challenge is market penetration. The concept is quite new and some clients are not yet open to paying for education especially that in Botswana education is provided for free by Government. But we have a strategy ro run at a loss currently ro build the brand and trust. The next big challenge will be capital to finance our new developments, television/social media content production for financial education for children and for the development of an e-learning platform.

To expand our business to other regions in Tanzania such as Njombe, Iringa and Singida
To build a big Health centre in Tanzania2023
To expand our business to Kenya and Rwanda by 2024
To develop an app

Technology challenge
This is a big challenge to our business we need to involve technology such as developing an App that can help pregnant women and children to solve their health problems.

Finance Challenge
Struggling to raise capital by applying for financial support from different organizations and programs with the same objectives of helping pregnant women and children under five ages to reducethe number of death caused by anaemia and Malnutrition.

Connection challenge
Struggling to have partnerships with organizations that work with the community in health services such as UPG Biashara, save the childrenWorld health organization.

The next big step is to rent out a salon space where we will be selling our products and offering all the hair styling and treatments as we are currently working from home and also hire more people and train them. We are also looking listing our products and exporting some of them, to show the passion and drive we are currently enrolled with Future Females Business School in collaboration Trade Forward Southern Africa doing Export Trade Training. Other opportunities we are looking into is launching new products looking at the problems our clients have.

Challenges we are facing currently is that of insufficient funds to buy machinery, packaging materials and ingredients to produce more of our products and meet demand. My sister (who is also my business partner) and i funded ourselves because we did not want to be limited or stopped by anything to start our passion. Burnout and Fatigue as we do everything ourselves and do not have enough money to pay employees. Taxes we pay at the border and transportation fees as we buy most of our ingredients from South Africa, as a startup this fees really cripples us.

Recently our government just imposed a restriction on import of school uniform which means local schools can only be supplied by local garment manufacturers. We have secured 3 more schools to supply with school uniforms from January. with a total of about 400 government school this opportunity could increase our market share. We have also enrolled in the export development facilitated by the USAID in partnership with Government. this initiative is to prepare our business to export through the African Growth and opportunity Act (AGOA) by January 2023. Moreover we are looking to also explore the African market through the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AFCFTA)

With the high increase in demand in our products we have noted that we should be in a position to meet the demand on time, with the right quality and with competitive pricing. this requires a capacity building especially on machines that we are currently outsourcing. this will require funds to procure such machinery. it has been difficult to get funding due to the interest rates and requirements for collateral which hinder us as a small company to access funding. out sourcing machines results in our production costs being high and being uncompetitive in pricing. this also leads to delays in completing order due to the work delaying at our subcontractors hands. this also sometimes may result in compromise of quality of our products.

Economic: 50 youth’s employment for both the distribution and sales department
Social: 500 increase number in girl’s education and access to affordable pads: empowering young people to champion andinjustice that would give them a voice in their community
Environmental: Biodegradable and environmentally friendly

Equipment: We need more machinery eg cutting models to ease our work of production of the pads as well as packaging.
Working Space: A large working space (Expanding production facility and working space for production, storage and training
Human resource: We need a bigger committed facilitated team (Hiring more qualified staff/human resource to do the training and manufacturing of the pad, sales and marketing etc)
Partnerships: We would like to be introduced to organisations that work within our area of focus, government bodies and individuals.
Funding: We need to be supported with finances to increase production.

The next big step is to launch new products that we have been preparing (e-commerce and healthcare app), and launch our learning academy

The challenge we are facing is just getting right equipments and a convenient place to run our business and academy we people can come and learn.

The next step in our business strategy is to introduce gold buying as a profit making initiative. This is aimed at provided a larger capital base for the association to carry out its mandate of rehabilitating miners as well as the vulnerable and less privileged families within the communities with which we work in. The Zimbabwean government has recently allowed mining companies and associations (such as ourselves) to acquire gold buying licenses (of which we have done so). These licenses allow us to legally buy gold from the miners who work for us as well as from other independent gold producers and sell for a larger profit by means of an incentive attached to the gold buying license. Through this initiative we look forward to increasing our capital equipment, concessions, community development and rehabilitation, miners training and rehabilitation as well as land rehabilitation and preservation.

The current challenge we are faced with is incapacity to support the multitudes of miners who have joined the association and are waiting to be allocated resources to begin mining. We also face the challenge of the need to explore vast areas within our concessions in order to provide miners with areas that are resourceful and will provide a return on their effort exerted. Lastly we face the challenge of liquidity in order to buy gold from the miners directly to resell for an incentivized profit.

We aim to control the entire value chain, from production to packaging and commercialisation.
In order to increase our sales, we need to ensure that production follows. Due to the declining productionin beekeeping as a result of a lack of investment, we are preparing to implement a project which will aid to resolve this growing problem in the sector.

We therefore seek to offer CSR solutions through beekeeping to a number of enterprises who aim to provide an impact in their communities and environment.

Our project offers immediate impact to businesses in order to reinforce sustainability ambitions and values and supports a company's commitment to the environment and local communities by engaging them in honey production.

This project aims to improve the living conditions of Congolese farmers and to make them actors in their own development, which integrates both the fight against poverty and inequality and the preservation of naturalresources.

We guarantee them a market for honey and honey products at fair prices, thus creating additional sources of income for producers and their households, stimulating the local economy by creating jobs andsubsequently improving the health and consumption habits of local consumers.

The honey is then packaged and marketed in urban areas under the "MannaLola" brand, in large supermarket chains and to othercustomers.
MannaLola is already well known and has gained a significant market share.

Despite its enormous potential, the Congolese beekeeping sector is currently the victim of several factors that considerably hinder its development, which are mainly bush fires, deforestation, the lack of training for beekeepers and, sadly, the adulteration of honey.

We find on the shelves of supermarkets in the DRC local or imported honey of low quality, filled with impurities or with water added.
Due to a lack of knowledge, the main victims are consumers who consume products that are harmful to their health.
It is therefore important for a company like ours, which is anchored in rich quality products, to standout and to make consumers aware of the need to make the best choice by proposing quality and trustworthy products.

The DRC is a global biodiversity hotspot but deforestation is threatening this natural wealth.
Slash-and-burn agriculture and charcoal burning are still common practises, and the country is regularly confronted withbush fires. Economic difficulties and the lack of alternative income unfortunately lead to a very high dependence on these activities.

Beekeeping has a positive impact on nature. The pollination work of bees improves the quality of fruit and the productivity of orchards. This encourages communities to develop healthy, safe agriculture, the effects ofwhich they can quickly see.

It is more important to create national development reforms to combat deforestation and boost a sustainable investment policy for the country.

To equip ourselves with the necessary materials for the launch of our upcoming new on-site language training service package in English, Chinese, Swahili and Lingala (the 2 most spoken local languages in the South East Congo region for expatriates) for Corporates and individuals. We have opted for on-the-job training for our clients to help them optimize their time and have the opportunity to learn a new language on the job.

The biggest challenge is to digitize Tafsiri because thanks to technology everyone can get a quick translation with Google translator, Amazon and others but this is not the case for the administrative and legal side which requires a sworn translation and tha's keeping us stand. but to turn this challenge in an opportunity, We want to build a language training platform that would allow us to serve our clients even from a distance thanks to technology.

I just finished registering the business, bought the domain name and busy developing the e-commerce platform. The next step is to trademark our name with Business and Intellectual Property Authority (BIPA). We then integrate an online payment system on the platform, find office/warehouse space for lease and furnish it with office and kitchen utensils. Afterwards, apply for our fitness certificate from the Windhoek Municipality and have my team ready by hiring a few of my current class mates to assist on the journey. Get all our marketing strategies inline and then outsource the first E-bikes for delivery from E-bikes before business operations can officially starts.

The only challenge I am facing now is just starting capital to implement the solution, that is all. The development of the platform is not an issue because I have learning how to code/develop e-commerce through taking online courses on how to program (self taught). Maybe not finding a reliable supplier for the raw materials, prices of the raw materials we will be using might just increase which might cost us to increase our prices too which could be wrongly received by the clients and lastly a delay in receiving our fitness certificate from the Windhoek municipality which will prolong or hinder our official start day of business.

In my adventure with UPG Biashara, I would like to introduce myself as a poultry farmer and tell you about a problem that we experience daily as poultry farmer and we would like to solve. It is the absence of a poultry slaughterhouse throughout the country.

I would like to solve this problem by installing a poultry slaughterhouse in the city of Goma which would be a great advance in this field because all the poultry farmers suffer from it and according to the study of the market, we are to more than 500 poultry farmers only in Goma.

Our company CENTRE AGRI INNOV SARL (www.centreagriinnov.com) exists since 2019 which is developing the CAIM project (Center for Modern Integrated Agriculture) in Guinea and can be implemented in other rural areas in Guinea and elsewhere . The next step is to buy a large motor pump to do drip irrigation, grow 50,000 plants of various trees for reforestation, and hire another 20 employees.

Our challenges: lack of adequate training and coaching, networking and funding.

Currently, we are testing the first hard coded version of modules (also known as features) in a controlled environment and among 1000 end-users Gauteng until June 2022. Through this funding you could held up us to develop the fully fledged version with full front and back-end functionality and design by September 2022. This final version will first be tested among 100 000 end-users across South Africa in preparation for market entry in early 2023.
The functionalities which you could assist in developing include:
1. M-TETO University Module: Provides unlimited access to learning resources related to all things SRGBV. This includes pdfs, templates of legal and policing documents (eg: affidavits), e-books, podcasts, webinars, classes, courses, videos, audio books and educational games.
2. Helpers Module: Enables end-users to safely access free/pro-bono legal, psycho-social, policing, medical and sexual and reproductive health and rights services and service providers.
3. Live data: Provides access live data from police stations. If an end-user wants to report a case or get a rape kit, they will be able to see live data showing the number of rape kits available at a
selected police station, as well as the police official who is on duty. This removes barriers and delays in survivors accessing rape kits.
4. The Emergency Module: Allows people who download the app to immediately contact emergency services or to ask for immediate assistance. This button is available without logging in or registering. End-users can call police, ambulance, emergency contacts and therapists for free.

I am a young, black female entrepreneur. Even with my expertise and experience, I can affirm the fact that it is nearly impossible to be funded. Those who are funded are usually funded through illicit processes.
Therefore, the greatest pain to my entrepreneurial journey has been the strained access to funding from my own country, which has forced me to look outside of my borders.
Whilst I have enjoyed relatively greater success from outside of my home country, the reality is that the same discrimination which has excluded me and others like me still prevails.
Globally, 5% of all venture capital funding goes to female-led startups.
In the United States and the United Kingdom, 0.27% and 0.24% of all venture capital money goes to Black female led startups.
This picture is not much better than that of South Africa.
That said, the world is terribly hostile to Black female entrepreneurs. And, have chosen to not sit on the negative side of this spectrum. However, the reality of poor access to resources still remains unchanged, even for empowered Black women such as myself.

In addition to expanding our offering internationally,the next big step is to have a physical store and show rooms so people can have an appreciation of our products and the durability and their quality.

Our current challenge is only having an online store, we are missing out on potential customers who tend to buy impulsively when items are right in front of them.

Wow!

If I am fortunate to win a $5000 grant from the Diamonds Do Good ®️It will help my business to achieve good milestones in addressing my vision.
Below is what I will do with money as presented:

1. I will use a $1,500 to maintenance the fish ponds and establish one new one.

This will support the business interns of production yield per season, the maintenancing of the pond is a fundamental routine in Aquaculture investment to ensure the good condition status of the culture environment.Also establishing an additional new tank will help to increase our stock level and invariably our harvest potential.

2. I will use 1,500 to get a functional hatchery room for fish breeding.
Getting a functional hatchery will save the business from buying fish seeds all the time but rather ensure the business has its own fishseed base where the fish can be bred for propagation, and the baby fish can be used for stocking. The hatchery will also create room for a new market through the sales of fish fries and fingerlings to other farmers, this therefore is a huge business opportunity as well for the company.

3. I will use $500 to get a wonderful product brand.
Branding is very important, this is why I will use this amount to have a good brand that will be competitive and attractive to getting the company a good market share.

4. I will use $1000 to dig a well for perennial water supply to the farm.
Water availability on our farm is currently a big problem, I will therefore use this amount to solve the problem since fish depend onquality water, the well will support the fish farm with water during the dry season to enable perennial fish production despite seasonal change.

5. I will use $500 dollars to buy material resources (ingredients) to formulate my fish feed in bid of getting an MVP.
The fish feed is an essential product the company is launching into the market, thus, getting an MVP is invaluable.

If my company was awarded with a USD $5000 grant we would invest it in purchasing specialized manufacturing equipment (milling machine, printed circuit board programmer, soldering irons, punch press, bench drill, etching and lamination consumables and testing equipment such as hi-pot testers etc) as well as rent/purchase office/warehouse space and equipment (laptops, phones and stationary) in order to employ a larger team and achieve our three main business goals:
1) Reduce production costs
2) Create permanent jobs
3) Fast-track the development of our two products and their entry into market

The 5000 fund will go a long way in the marketing efforts and technical support of my business. It will allow us to build our brand recognition and ultimately this will translate to more sells

I would invest in a solar system because currently we use a generator for pumping water from a borehole, and it is expensive because Petrol funds are needed quite often and since petrol is so expensive it is a set back for our business.

The grant will help us build infrastructure like greenhouses and enable us to fully take advantage of off-season herbs when they are not available in the market. This would also improve our revenue by over 25%.The remaining would be used as working capital to help sustain the business on the first few months of expansion. The working capital includes compost, utilities, Packaging and labelling material.

This will allow me to obtain the display fridge that can maintain the temperatures I need to advertise and sell my products in. I will also be able to buy the mobile fridges that will allow me to transport my products over long distances. I could also potentially speak to my banker about a down payment for a truck for me to do the cross border events.

The fund will go towards the following:
1. Development of an e-learning platform. This would cost about USD2000
2. Development of story books for children on earning, saving, budgeting, investing and starting a business. This would cost about USD1500
3. Production of content (Fun Financial Literacy Show for children) to run on social media or television, to be precise a 13 episode show. This would cost about USD1500.

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The DDG grant will help us to buy more equipment, more ingredients and packing containers to produce more and supply retail stores. It will help us to train more women and men on hair care services and product distribution and hence create employment. It will also help us to find an affordable commercial space where we can formulate our products, sell them and offer hair care treatments and styling services.

I would would buy a machine for attaching trimmings on the garment especially the elastic and the waist bands, an embroidery machine and buttonhole machine. The remaining will be used to pay for certification of protective wear at the BUREAU of standards. The procurement of the machine will improve the quality of the overall and increase production efficiency hence allowing us to not outsource the service but rather do the trimmings attachment inhouse. the certification will also allow my products to qualify for certain contracts that require our products to be certified. This will result in an increase in market share and increase in sales.

With the $5,000, it will support on our what next points on our plan. Which are:
In the next 2 years we have an ambitious target to raise capital, improve on our sales and marketing strategy, and expandto16 districts with our product in the form of supply points.
We intend to actively engage in related activities to attract new customers & Partnerships hence increasing sales and profits which will in turn help usto increase on productions.
10 % from the $5,000 will be for purchasing equipment that can help us do work easily and better, training more girls, marketing and reaching out for activities. With this we shall be ableto attract at least 2500 paying customers per year.
We intend to achieve this by building the capacity of our team by training both internal and external as well as facilitating them for the work they do. We have startedrecruiting volunteers and internship students who are less costly but can support our core team in operations.
This $5,000 will help us in the packaging so that our product can compite with the disposable pads in themarket

use 1,500 to get a location guaranty for our offices other 2000 for equipment and the rest keep for running the company

11. A financial grant would equip the association with funds required to purchase more gold that is produced by internal and external miners facilitated by the acquired gold buying license provided by the Zimbabwean government. This would mean the association will recover higher gains in order to purchase more capital equipment to provide for our long list of waiting miners willing to exert their effort on the mining claims. A higher profit will also allow the association to provide more towards the vulnerable communities and families through mandatory donations that are percentage based- meaning more income results in a higher allocation of funds towards this cause. With a financial grant the association may be able to access more mining concessions in more regions across the country this means we will have a reach on more communities with which we operate in, providing relief and rehabilitation towards these diverse communities. A grant would allow the association to begin investing in income generating projects for the communities we work in, such projects may include communal farming initiatives, animal husbandry, apiculture among other sustainable projects.

It would be an honour to win the grant of $5,000.
In order to boost our visibility on the market, we would use a majority of the funds to support our marketing initiatives through social media marketing,activations on the ground as well as visual support.

An additional $5,000 from Dimond Do Good will allow us to purchase;
- A standard training facility in the downtown area
- Increase our capacity to accommodate by 50%.
- Improve our training room and the equipment that is the center of operation.
- Begin building the platform to make our online training accessible.

This will double our revenue and increase our customer base by 100% to serve the 5% market.

It will assist my business in implementing the solution. The grant will be helpful in paying for working capital, thus in buying our raw and packaging materials, buy our equipment's, allowing us to rent an affordable office space, pay for our employees salaries in the early days and paying for advertising.

If I won this grant, I could buy the semi-automatic slaughterhouse which is 7000$ in China and make this dream a reality because it is my biggest challenge of 2022! To set up the first poultry slaughterhouse in the country and solve the problem of over 500 poultry farmers.

The acquisition of the "Diamonds Do Good" fund as part of the UPG Biashara 2022 program will help our business (CAIM) to move forward and produce many economic and social impacts in our community; Guinea in general and Tanènè Bouramayah (rural area) in particular. In short, this fund will allow us to buy a large motor pump to facilitate the watering of our organic vegetable crops and our various trees for reforestation in degraded areas and in the process of massive degradation, due to the impacts of climate change in our country. It will also help us to employ some dynamic and passionate young people and women to work within our team to increase the production capacity on an annual basis of our company CENTRE AGRI INNOV SARL.

This funding will go directly into developing the final version of M-TETO Search Engine which will be tested/piloted across selected South African educational environments/schools.
The functionalities which you could assist in developing include:
1. M-TETO University Module: Provides unlimited access to learning resources related to all things SRGBV. This includes pdfs, templates of legal and policing documents (eg: affidavits), e-books, podcasts, webinars, classes, courses, videos, audio books and educational games.
2. Helpers Module: Enables end-users to safely access free/pro-bono legal, psycho-social, policing, medical and sexual and reproductive health and rights services and service providers.
3. Live data: Provides access live data from police stations. If an end-user wants to report a case or get a rape kit, they will be able to see live data showing the number of rape kits available at a selected police station, as well as the police official who is on duty. This removes barriers and delays in survivors accessing rape kits.
4. The Emergency Module: Allows people who download the app to immediately contact emergency services or to ask for immediate assistance. This button is available without logging in or registering. End-users can call police, ambulance, emergency contacts and therapists for free.

We would utilize the funds towards settling up a showroom in Gaborone, Getting the inventory for the showroom and preparing the space for customers to appreciate our offering. A portion of the funds would be put to marketing and advertising the business for new customers.

Our business positively contributes to the community in the following ways:

1. Production of our fish helps in cushioning fish shortage problems in the local fish markets, thus addressing food securityproblems.

2. We also help in creating job opportunities for women and youth.

3. Training opportunity is also another fundamental benefits of our business to the community youths in having skills on Aquacultureentrepreneurship (Fish Farming basics).

4. Another community benefits is promoting a climate smart strategy in fish food production using eco friendly materials.

Coming out of a dark history of apartheid, my country has had to undergo a long process to build electricity infrastructure to serve previously disadvantaged and rural communities that were excluded from participation in the economy. With an ongoing energy crisis that began in 2008, these communities are once again being left behind as many households transition to solar and other green energy solutions. My company and the two novel products we offer serves to fix this injustice by making solar PV accessible to all customer segments and reducing the barriers for many low-income and rural communities. Access to clean & affordable energy has the potential to improve education, livelihoods and quality of life for all, and increasing uptake of solar means that we reduce our negative impact on the climate while helping people access this basic need.

We will be partnering with scooter drivers thereby creating employment. This also will digitize township economy bridging the gap between township and city economy. The township economy is still laid back technically and our goal is to technologically empower them.

-creation of employment
-Food security is met
-vegetables are mankind's most affordable source of vitamins and minerals, that is we are contributing to good health for people in our community.
-source of income is created .

Erba farm aims to employ mostly women in the Gabane Community. We also will be offering mentorship and apprentice to students in our community to further develop them and give them practical skills on both business and farming. Lastly, we will be bringing out awareness about healthy eating to the community especially our elders who normally have to be very cautious about what they consume due to their age. We have noticed that there are still people who are not aware that there is a healthier alternative to spices.

My business aims to hire mainly women and young girls. This allows me to empower the girl child as well as women in my community. I also by my fresh fruit from the local farmers market which means I’m assisting the local market grow and sustain itself.

This business is what Africa, and Botswana need to transform to a knowledge-based economy. Information is the new money, meaning with knowledge you can create wealth. And with financial knowledge children will be equipped to make informed and better financial choices about how the earn money, how the manage it and how the grow it. This will go a long way in preparing them for the future of work and will smoothen thier transition from school to work, either as employees or entrepreneurs. Financial literacy is a cross cutting subject that is needed by every child. An economically empowered generation is able to empower people around them in their communities. This is a sure way to groom game changers who will be able to lift their families from poverty. Ending poverty and income inequalities begins with empowering children with quality financial education, and other critical life skills such as leadership, team work and public speaking.

By reducing maternal deaths caused by anaemia, people improve their health status by participating in economic activities and reducing the national burden on the health sector, Increasing learning capacity for children under age five, Reduce carbon emissions average of 529kg per month

Fro'Niques was started as a passion for natural hair, we grew up in a space where beauty was defined by skin color and hair texture. We witnessed how people wanted to change the way they look so that they can be viewed as beautiful, straighten hair or change their skin color. At Fro'Niques we wanted to change the narrative, we want kids growing up like us to realize that their hair is beautiful as is, that they are enough and they do not need to change anything about themselves. We then self-published a coring book for kids called "I AM MAGNIFICET" showing people with different hair kinds and textures to say we are all beautiful, that they need to be bold and unapologetic because they are who they are and nothing should change that. Sometimes we go for outreaches just to meet with young kids and talk about hair and beauty. At Fro'Niques we are about education and empowerment. This business will create more employment as it grows, we plan on training and hiring more women and men.

We employ 80% of young women and women who have completed their learning on fashion design or Dress making in our community, within the 80%, 10% are enrolled to learn on the job and later be enrolled in to Vocational schools to attain their certificates on practical work. Our target is on those from underprivileged homes and those affected by Gender based violence.

Our manufactured accessible and affordable washable sanitary pads are made from a high absorbent microfiber material. Washable sanitary napkins avoid a lot of waste of disposable pads that ends up in the environment. In the first year of our production, over 900,000 disposable pads will be knocked out of the market ( meaning; the disposal pads dealers will lose over 900,000 buyers) this is because the reusable pad we produced has a life span of two years which a customer will prefer to a disposable pad that will be dumped after use.
Our pads are Easily washable – limited quantity of water Compared to cotton-based sanitary napkins producedby competitors, the microfiber absorption layer requires considerably less water for washing. It is also known that growing cotton requires large amounts of water. The Shecures sanitary napkin is therefore not only more hygienic but also ecological. At Shecures, we always want our customers to get the best services and as such we also provide a menstrual hygiene guide, a manual that helps adolescents (both boys and girls) to gain knowledge about menstruation and serve as health educators/ peer educators in their schools.
Create employment for other young people

We are empowering local potentials, solving local problems with technology, creating jobs by reducing poverty

9. We directly contribute towards each community with which we operate-as this is our top priority and mandate. Our mission is to assist breadwinners with the opportunity to provide for their families and to assist vulnerable families such as the elderly, women, children, single parents, the disabled and orphans by supporting them with basic needs, access to education, reasonable work, poverty reduction among other things. We are an association that believes in equal opportunities for all and that supports those with whom may be unfortunately underprivileged in any way.

Our activity plays a triple role, namely :
Social
Beekeepers have access to training and capacity building.
Empowerment of rural women and youth
Economic
Creation of additional sources of income for rural communities.
Job creation and
Environmental,
It reduces human pressure on biodiversity and its ecosystems caused by deforestation
Reforestation by planting honey trees.

We help the community members to be eligible for many job offers because being a Francophone mining region with nearly 80% of companies having English as their first administrative language, speaking English has become imperative to survive. And for the giving back to the community, we organize English language practice club activities every weekend for free.

Firstly, People's general health improves because they will be on a monthly healthy balance diet. Secondly, a healthy individual in society contributes positively to society by advocating for healthier practices in the community and they tend to be more productive at their work place which has a slight contribution to the GDP of any country. Thirdly, our business idea will contribute to people achieving their gym objectives which is either to lose weight, gain muscle or be fit. Fourthly, employment and payment of tax to our government. Lastly which is also one of the positive contributing to the community is the fact that all our packaging materials will be recyclable and all our deliveries will be done by an eco-friendly delivering company called E-bikes (no air pollution contributed from our operation when moving our goods to our clients and at the end we keep mother nature happy and clean).

My solution will solve a worrying problem for the poultry farmers but also for the consumers because some of them are afraid to buy slaughtered chickens because they doubt the conditions in which this operation has been done because often some of them do it in unhealthy places and do not respect the hygiene standards. With the slaughterhouse, the sanitary norms will be respected so by buying the ready to cook chicken of Gysha Farm, one will have less chores before cooking. But also we will create work because we will need an additional workforce in the company and therefore will have to reduce the unemployment rate.

CAIM is a project that is part of contributing to reduce or alleviate poverty, rural exodus and unemployment of young people and women in our rural community which is far from real development nowadays, the impacts of climate change in rural communities in Africa in general and Guinea in particular in the following ways:
- Restore degraded lands through reforestation or / agroforestry to create direct and indirect jobs andwealth in the community which is the basis of all development and also help populations to have clean air, pure water and pure agricultural products;
- Protect and safeguard the environment by doing and promoting integrated agriculture without the use of chemical fertilizers to strengthen their health and reduce health costs that could be prevented and avoided;
- Create decent jobs for young people and women in rural areas to flourish with their respective families which is of great socio-economic interest of the country;
- Train and sensitize populations in general and young people and women in rural areas in particular in our rural incubation of the said center, which will be a first in Guinea, allowing also to have technical and financial support from the State and some development partners for these disadvantaged young people and women, following our coaching and serene follow-up.

M-TETO aggregates, indexes and provides age appropriate/bespoke SRGBV related content, information and empowerment resources/tools that are important, but not easy to find and use through traditional search tools.
This information, resources and tools are proven to prevent or bring an end to the cycle of SRGBV and the related consequences. End-users now know what to do, where to go and who to speak to.
M-TETO is a safe space that presents complex/difficult subject matters in an easy-to-understand manner that reduces intimidation in interacting with services providers/helpers. Especially, in emergency situations.
End-users can:
• do general searchers,
• access the University platform for learning,
• pro-bono justice ecosystem services/helpers,
• redeem points to purchase a wide variety of empowerment items at the “Square”, such as SRHR products; and
• make free in-app calls to emergency service providers/helpers.
Paying customers have access to anonymous/de-identified, disaggregated data that can be used to understand and visualise:
• at risk end-user profiles.
• end-user perceptions, behaviours, attitudes, beliefs, etc.
• necessary, most effective and tailored interventions to respond to or prevent SRGV and consequences.
• service provider/helper/intervention performance or progress.
M-TETO is aligned with the following Sustainable development goals:
M-TETO uses an intersectional and equitable approach to ensure that ALL students in educational contexts are empowered with an evidence-based tool proven to adequately prevent and respond to SRGBV. M-TETO eradicates barriers to equitable educational outcomes. And, directly contributes to the attainment of these five (5) SDG Goals: 3, 4, 5, 10 AND 16.

Cabana & Co buys inventory and markets it for local artisans who otherwise would not make sales, this in return helps economically. We have hired individual under our studio who are now employed and able to provide for their families.