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Accelerate2030 South Africa Pitch Event

By Impact Hub Joburg

Tue Jul 4, 17:30 - Tue Jul 4, 20:00

Impact Hub Joburg

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Join us to meet with and hear from inspiring South African social entrepreneurs! Over the course of the evening event, we will hear pitches from 6 social enterprise finalists for the impressive, global Accelerate2030 programme. By the end of the event, 3 will be selected to advance for consideration into the final international selection.

Evening Agenda
  • 5:30 pm: Registration
  • 6:00 pm: Welcome & Presentation of Accelerate2030
  • 6:30 pm: Pitching Time (6 social enterprises)
  • 7:30 pm: Jury Discussion and Winner Announcements
  • 8:00 pm: Networking

About Accelerate2030
Accelerate2030 is a 9-month programme that co-initiated by Impact Hub Geneva and the UNDP with a mission to scale the impact of ventures that contribute towards the Sustainable Development goals internationally. They do so by selecting the best ventures from 17 countries, across 4 continents and connecting them to our wide network of expert partners that work with them on delivering a tailored, needs-based scaling support to the finalists. Learn more on their website: www.accelerate2030.net

Accelerate2030 Global Partners
Thank you to our global Accelerate2030 partners!


The Social Entrepreneurs:
We are delighted to showcase the 6 South African finalists who have made it to the Pitch Event. They include:


Syafunda is a learning & data management platform providing access to digital content through mobile technology. They integrate the best teaching practices on video, audio and e-books into the school system through a wireless digital library for high school students in a South African context in alignment with the South African curriculum.


The Dignity Project/Subz Pants and Pads were created to reduce the rate of absenteeism and school drop outs among young girls. Subz Pads are eco-friendly, re-usable sanitary pads which clip onto ladies underwear and do not need to be disposed of. They are simply washed and dried in the privacy of the home and re-used the next day.

I-Drop Water is a for-profit, mission-driven company established to bring safe drinking water to everyone, everywhere. Their innovative business model uses nano-purification water filtration technology and GSM-enabled platform to empower grocery store owners anywhere to purify and sell safe, affordable drinking water to their customers. With I-Drop Water more people can afford safe drinking water, less plastic waste is produced and local economies benefit by supporting their local grocery stores.
 

hearScreen is an innovative start-up providing smart solutions for healthy hearing. Its low-cost mHealth solution for hearing problems provides clinically valid tests, operated by untrained persons with cloud-based data management and referral systems linking patients to services. hearScreen’s vision is to impact the 1.2 billion globally who suffer hearing difficulties through affordable access and linkage to hearing health.

Mashesha Stoves is a social enterprise focusing on solving the cooking needs for rural schools and communities in SADC (Southern Africa Development Community). They sell fuel-efficient stoves that cook with large pots, for institutional use and medium sized ones for household use. Their stoves use biomass/wood fuel, but use half of the fuel normally required with open fires and are a lot safer to use, as we used a closed gasification process for combustion. 

Jumping Kids is a social enterprise for South Africans living with amputation. Technology has come a long way to enable amputees. Most young South Africans living with amputation are limited more by health policies than their actual physical ability. At Jumping Kids, the dream is to provide prosthetic solutions geared for optimum results while boosting awareness and advocating for change.
Jumping Kids Is Ability!


See you there!
 

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Accelerate2030 South Africa Pitch Event
Impact Hub Joburg
9 Walters St, Johannesburg, 2196, South Africa
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