Last month Echoing Green, a nonprofit that focuses on accelerating social change by identifying and investing in visionaries, announced its fellows for 2011. A significant number of these fellows would be working on projects in Africa. Below are their ideas:
David Auerbach and Ani Vallabhaneni: Resolve the massive sanitation problems in the world’s slums, starting in Kenya, with an economically sustainable micro-entrepreneurial network of clean, containerized toilets and service to convert the waste to electricity and fertilizer.
Deborah Ahenkorah : Stimulate literacy and cultural understanding by inspiring a new generation of African authors to write children’s literature to which African youth can relate.
Joel Jackson: Empower Africans to gain socioeconomic prosperity by designing and manufacturing highly functional and affordable vehicles designed explicitly for the needs of the African market
Mohamed Ali Niang and Salif Niang: Fight extreme poverty and malnutrition in Mali by encouraging farmers to fortify rice with vital minerals and vitamins and connecting them with production, processing and markets.
Rajesh Panjabi and Peter Luckow: Pioneer a comprehensive approach to reconstruct the rural health care system in war-torn Liberia with an efficient and effective training and outreach model for community health workers
Yusuf Randera-Rees: Activate an entrepreneurship revolution in under-resourced communities across South Africa.
We wish them luck on their projects!
