Renewable energy systems are proliferating in the developing world, yet contextual factors continue to affect full adoption of such technologies. E2E provides a solution to the technical and educational barriers to energy technology use in the developing world by connecting innovative education to sustainable energy needs in Africa.

E2E, Education to Energy, provides both education and technical services through two key programs:

·         The GreenSquad provides technical support, training and consultation for teachers, students and other users of decentralized energy systems. We partner with local and regional businesses to provide installation, repair, and maintenance for new energy technologies. A team of community experts will be equipped to manage technology issues in communities. The GreenSquad is on call and available by mobile SMS.

·         The mobile classroom is an enriched learning space equipped with a library, lab space, and hands-on museum that serves students and community members. The service is delivered using innovative portable architecture that unfolds into a travelling “E-lab”. Designed for portability on bicycles used by GreenSquad personnel , it also serves as a marketing platform for our services. E-lab includes:

o   Learning Resources: Sugar Lab software with special energy features (i.e. solar panel power output program); open source learning activities.

o   Science equipment including local materials for basic science projects and more technical equipment for monitoring such as a wattmeter and thermometer.

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The CO-Fund mission is to facilitate the funding of higher education for deserving, college-ready students.  CO-Fund enables anybody to sponsor student’s college education through online, face-to-face profiles. Donors help students to afford and graduate from college and become a part of their social mission to “pay it forward” after graduation.  We have developed an efficient, accessible, and personalized approach that empowers both donors and students by aggregating direct, peer-to-peer donations of as little as one dollar, 100% of which go to the students. Started by Cody Simmons in the fall of 2009, the CO-Fund team is now comprised of nine talented entrepreneurial Brown students that have the shared vision of leveraging the power of micro-donations to benefit students and their communities. 
 
CO-Fund is launching its public website in the Spring of 2010 under the fiscal sponsorship of Rhode Islanders Sponsoring Education (RISE). CO-Fund has also received $5,000 in pro bono legal services from the law firm Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP, and is also working with the accounting firm Batchelor, Frechette, McCrory, Michael & Co.  CO-Fund is currently a start-up, non-profit organization that is launching with students from Rhode Island to demonstrate the effectiveness of its approach before scaling to work with additional partners and communities nationwide. 
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 The Amber Initiative has been working closely with the hill tribe people in Thailand that have been marginalized for centuries. Amber is working with Blessing Home, a youth hostel currently serving 60 Lahu youth and children, to increase English and Mandarin proficiency for the students in the surrounding areas, especially students that have no opportunity to continue education in their villages. Through enhancing the programs in Blessing Home, we envision this to be a center of choice for quality linguistic skill development as well as extracurricular activities such as music and sports. Using Blessing Home’s current space as a center for these programs, Amber is working with the local leadership in the area to reach out to even more hill tribe youth in Chiang Rai, in particular youth that have been forced into marriage at an early age. Thus this program is three-fold: 1) Critical language development, 2) Extra curricular development through sports and music and 3) Educational resources and classes for young women who are married as there currently exists no programs for them.
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The mission of Pamphlets with a Purpose (PWAP) is to teach hygienic practices through pictures.  PWAP will target those in slums and educate them on these practices. We would like to use pictures instead of text for people who are uneducated and are unable to read and write. This will give them an opportunity to help themselves and their families stay healthy and safer from common diseases, which can be avoided by practicing proper hygiene.  Each PWAP will have a step-by-step visual guide on how to live a more hygienic lifestyle.  The pamphlet topics will cover proper defection practices, sanitation of household materials, oral hygiene, hand-washing techniques, and grooming practices.  Let’s take oral hygiene as an example.  First, we would develop a systemic approach to proper hygiene by getting in contact with a dentist.  After perfecting the basic steps, we would create a pamphlet with several pictures.  The first picture would show a child with bad teeth. Then we would have another picture with him grabbing a toothbrush and toothpaste, or something similar that would be available in their village. The third picture would be of the child putting the toothpaste on his toothbrush and the rest of the pictures would continue onto the progression of proper oral hygiene.  Each PWAP would be a concise and detailed picture guide for proper hygiene, allowing anyone to be able to adapt the practices.

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Africa Start-Up provides business training to microfinance recipients in Malawi, Africa to provide permanent solutions to extreme poverty and unemployment.  Its goal is to supply the know-how to create sustaining businesses, double personal incomes, and increase collaborative trust, transparency and accountability for entrepreneurs living in the sixth poorest country in the world.  With a social entrepreneurship framework, Africa Start-Up is building a coalition of students, professors, business professionals, non-profit experts and government stakeholders around the world to address the issue of high unemployment (over 85% nationwide) and extreme poverty in Malawi.   Africa Start-Up is inspired by study and application of Seattle University economics/marketing student, Christina Davis, after working with microloan recipients and initiated a business training pilot program in Malawi in 2009. 

 

She learned Malawian entrepreneurs will travel nearly half-a-day to learn how to grow small business expansion.  Success means survival.   Africa Start-Up fills the gap by providing both financial stimulus and educational support.  University of Malawi business school students will teach bi-weekly classes; Seattle University’s Students-In-Free-Enterprise (SIFE) and Beta Alpha Psi chapters will consult with microenterprise owners live during classroom webinars.  Upon completion, students will earn a $100+ loan through a local microfinance institution and join a broad social network of business owners.   This program will supply models for similar efforts throughout Africa.  

 

Start-Up solutions, Start-Up success…Africa Start-Up!
 

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Founded in 2008 by a student and a Sierra Leonean, Planting Promise is a community-based organization, whose mission is to create sustainable enterprise in Sierra Leone to support educational projects. By developing locally conceived and administered businesses, our charity provides free education to over 600 children. Additionally, our businesses empower the people of Sierra Leone by offering wealth, employment and prospects: and through these, genuine economic and human development.

OUR LOCATIONS:

We currently run 3 primary schools in Sierra Leone, educating a total of 600 children, in addition to an adult education course teaching basic literacy and vocational skills to a class of 50 women. Teachers are locally recruited and qualified, and will soon be assisted by volunteer experts from the UK, so improving the quality of the schooling we deliver.

However we don’t believe you help people by making them dependent. So instead of foreign funding, our schools are funded by our businesses, promoting growth in the Sierra Leonean economy. We farm 1200 acres of rice and cassava, and run 2 food-processing units and an internet café in Freetown, reinvesting all profits back into the organization.

OUR STRUCTURE:

WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT:

• We provide a free and otherwise inaccessible education to street children and subsistence farmers 
• We are 100% sustainable – our businesses pay for all running costs
  
• We already have a proven record of success after operating for less than two years
  
• All our activities are vetted and administered by a team of experienced local professionals

For more information, please visit our website: www.plantingpromise.org.uk
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  Our idea is focused on solving water problems in India, using rainwater harvesting as a solution, by reaching out to different kinds of people and interacting with them in the way they understand best, by showing them their benefits in being a part of this movement.

 

In the first phase of the project, a web portal will be launched which will provide the basic know-how of water problems, rainwater harvesting, a rainwater calculator and installation techniques. The client may even hire a consultant from our consultant network or try implementing solutions themselves.

 

It is important that those who are planning cities, buildings and homes for us have a good knowledge about water issues and relevant technologies. To achieve this, training workshop programs will be organized to educate architects, civil engineers and urban planners about rainwater harvesting ideas and solutions to enable them to incorporate the same into projects that they undertake in their future. This will result in a value addition to their projects and also make them socially responsible professional.

 

Throughout the two phases awareness regarding water crises will be created by displaying and popularizing the website at events, exhibitions and expos.  Free seminars at schools and colleges will be conducted to attract youngsters to this issue.

 

In the final stage a robust and rigorous model for domestic rainwater harvesting will be developed using expertise and experience. Once built, it is expected that the models will guide formulation of public policy for rainwater harvesting. At the consumer level, we will acquire rainwater harvesting rights from home owners by paying a fee. The fee will be paid by utilizing subsidies. The rainwater will be channelled to underground storage facilities. This water will be supplied back to the community during water shortages or as per need as a paid service.

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Imagine a relative of yours needing immediate medical help but his/her life is slipping out of control because of a traffic jam hindering the movement of the ambulance you and your relative is in. With things around us becoming smarter and smarter we need traffic too to follow the trend.

My idea proposes a smart traffic network which keeps all ambulances informed of where traffic jams are and alternative routes to avoid them.  Using traffic patterns/concentrations, satellite signals, GPS and other audio/video signals a potentially life saving decision can be made by the driver.
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“Child’s Play” is an arts education program that develops communication skills in underserved children.  Research has demonstrated that "at risk" children benefit academically and intellectually from arts education - and solid presentation skills are vital to any future job or career. 

This course has been successfully implemented for 4 years in 2 U.S. cities -- helping students improve vocabulary, diction, and reading skills, as it builds teamwork, fosters self-esteem, and teaches students the intrinsic value of serving others.  Its mission is vital – and its potential is limitless. childsplay0580.0

  Africa in general and Nigeria in particular has been traumatized by poverty, ignorance, diseases and corruption. I could go on and on about the level of decadence that has characterized our existence, but the important question is; where is the way out? We are the solution, I’m totally convinced of only one way out and that is “STUDENT”. The student as a body will have to lead this crusade against depravity. I reckon that the greatest need of our society is to succeed because we have been so battered by failure in all aspect of life and by my definition of success, ‘it is looking out for human need and reaching out to meet that need’. I believe strongly that the moment students understand success and its technical know-how, then our society will undergo change positively because we are the salt of the earth and the light of our world. We would have to take the destiny of our continent in our hands and change it for good, stand up and redefine societal value and push our society into greatness.

 

  On my part, I have no problem with our leaders and their predecessors because I don’t think am better of until I’ve done what is meant to be done. If in quote they’ve all failed us, including our parent as it were, are we also going to fail posterity that depends on us?

Education is paramount in a society. If this is so, we would need to redefine educational standard, ready to give what it takes, it input and output in our society and this can only be achieved by students who understands the technical know-how of success and how it is achievable in a society. Had kept on mentioning students and not masses because we are truly the bedrock of the society.

Talking about the masses, I realize that it is impossible to change the mindset of an African man, Nigeria in particular from its initial state by just mere speech; it doesn’t walk that way in this part of the world. It is obvious they are tired listening to agitations, suggestions made by so called doctors, lawyers and the likes. They want doers, men in action, people who are ready to take that position of true leadership.

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Tengo un Sueño (I Have a Dream) is a long-term educational program designed to make the attainment of education possible for low-income families in Nicaragua. As a group, we have offered a long-term commitment to 34 Dreamers in Hermandad Maryknoll Elementary school in the  rural community of Chacraseca. Throughout their elementary and high school education, the 34 Dreamers will be provided with school supplies, uniforms and shoes, an afterschool tutoring program, an extra teacher in the classroom, and two program coordinators. We are committed to support each child in this program, build a community library, and eventually open up Tengo un Sueño programs in the other 13 Chacraseca schools.

Tengo un Sueño is rooted in the belief that we cannot save the world with a project, but we can change a person's life. We can empower 34 Dreamers to become educated leaders in their community who will potentially grow up to improve their communities. felix.acuna350.0

FashionACTION is a new alternative that can transform our conventional ways of giving. An online marketplace, FashionACTION brings together buyers and sellers with the ultimate goal of promoting and increasing charitable giving towards programs that empower women and girls. Investing in girls has proven to be an effective tool in breaking the cycle of global poverty. FashionACTION aims to generate awareness of local, national and international organizations that operate programs to address this issue and help these charities in their efforts to eradicate poverty and injustice. In this unique marketplace, sellers donate designer accessories to be auctioned for buyers to bid on. Proceeds of a winning bid will be given to support a charity of the buyer’s choice. The seller will be able to select from a list of charities that the buyer must choose from.  However, all charities will centre around three common themes of women and girl’s empowerment: increasing health and safety, improving access to education and enhancing livelihoods.

FashionACTION will engage people who would not necessarily directly donate to a cause by providing them with a revolutionary avenue for them to purchase new and used luxury goods at a discounted price. Fashion meets altruism on this platform where both the buyers and the sellers can immediately see the difference they make once the transaction is complete. Charities will also benefit from an innovative online fundraising solution to help them build their financial base, so they can continue providing essential services that invest in women, children and communities worldwide. FashionAction1020.0

 In many parts of the Himalayas, children travel as far as 18 km to school, preventing them from helping their families with important household tasks. When they arrive, they learn little that applies to their daily lives or immediately benefits their families. Most schools cannot afford fuel for heat or to boil water in a place where the winter temperatures inside can reach -20 C and unsterilized drinking water often causes diarrhea. These issues lead families to associate school with illl-health and wasted time, especially when considering whether or not to send their girl children. 

 

This situation has caused large economic disparities between rural and urban populations across the Himalayan region. Lack of education in mathematics has prevented rural people from earning fair cash incomes, engaging in entrepreneurship, and accessing cash-only goods such as sanitary napkins, contraceptives, and, in some cases, vegetables (which do not grow at the high altitudes).

 

We are working with local communities to establish strategically-located community education centers where children and adults can study science and engineering applied to major issues in their everyday lives such as high-altitude greenhouse horticulture, solar concentrator design, sanitation, watershed management, and engineering principles. These centers will employ passive thermal regulation to maintain comfortable temperatures throughout the winter and will incorporate greenhouses where children can learn how to grow vegetables for their families and where parents can learn to build greenhouses to grow vegetables to sell to traders passing through the village. Inspiring both through their design and their novel curricula, these schools will improve health and catalyze innovation and entrepreneurship in the Himalayan region.

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Literacy in India is key for socio-economic progress. Enrollment rate is 82.5% but the drop out rate is 34.9% - 52.8%. The most vulnerable group among this is the marginalized rural poor. The primary reason for low enrollment and high drop out rate is child hunger. A hungry child is less likely to attend school regularly as hunger drains them of their will and ability to learn. Chronic hunger leads to malnutrition which delays or stops the physical and mental growth of children. This leads them into a vicious circle of illiteracy, malnutrition and low economic productivity. To counteract this problem Indian government started Mid Day Meal Scheme in rural schools with a huge investment and running costs. The scheme is not very successful as it encounters various problems as- corruption, lack of funds, failure of delivery mechanism, failure of quality control, lack of infrastructure and others. Our project 'Poushtak' proposes a public private partnership model to counteract this grave problem. It is an innovative food product which is semi cooked and is nutritionally well balanced. It will be produced and distributed using the Social Business approach. Community women, the key facilitators will monitor and evaluate the project. Daily ration of nutritious mid day meal will be provided to 120 million rural school children so as to increase enrollment, retention and improve their nutrition status. The project will then be extended to open market so as to earn profits which will be reaped back into the rural project to make it self sustainable. The project will make use of technology and supply chain management to provide the product in possibly minimum cost.

 

 

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BACKGROUND:

Investment in education always pays the best interest! Lack of quality education, poverty and underdevelopment are interlinked with each other. Secondary education bears tremendous importance: 1. It’s a determinant of an individual’s basic cognition and moral. 2. It is also a gateway to higher education.

 

Ground-reality:

In Nepal, rural students’ access to quality education is difficult, due to the lack of manpower and infrastructures. Further, the decade-long conflict has affected the national mechanisms. It will definitely take a considerable time to develop an efficient system to solve the problems. But then, can we afford to wait? NO! There’s a need of doing something effective that helps in addressing the problem.

 

IDEA:

Employing the miracles of technology to disseminate quality education to the rural students (Audio, Video resources: ‘Comprehensive learning with Ease and Fun’)

 

How will we do it?

We aim to develop learning resources and make it accessible to the students of rural areas. TV channels and FM radios will be used as the medium. Nepal has a good network of community radios; it’s the best medium for the places deprived of electricity. Similarly, audio and video materials will be disseminated to the rural schools.

 

How can we make a real difference?

When the materials get distributed, a large mass of students are likely to benefit. They get exposed to the simple and effective explanation of subject matter. Apart from the effectiveness and flexibility in learning process, the venture is awesome in terms of economy and time saving.

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Unemployment problem is a cause of concern for many contries.  Developing countries as well as developed countries  are facing this problem. Moreover, economic slowdown is adding salt to the wounds. According to "International Labour Organization"  the global unemployment rate for 2009 is estimated at 6.6 % with a confidence interval (CI) from 6.3% to 6.9%.  "Planning Commission of India" shows that employment rate was 8.36% in year 2006-2007 and they are planning to bring it down to 4.83% till 2011-2012. My innovation involves "Unemployment  reduction" in India. This will also cover Poverty reduction, Economic Development, Development in Education, Social awareness. I will also focus on importance of Small scale industries ,Development of Rural areas.

The economic growth rate should be increased at faster rate so that everyone should get employment. That's why labour-intensive, employment objective techniques have been illustrated.
(A) The small scale industries should be promoted in larger numbers and even heavy industries made dependent on them for auxiliary components.
(B)Eductional system should be vocational
(C)Infrastructure development should be accelerated.
(D)Optimization of natural resources.
(E) Awareness through social-networking sites and college friends.
(F)Local community co-operation
(G)Active participation by young students.
(H)Reduction in population growth

these all objectives will be met by my team to ensure employment for each and everyone.
 

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  JeepNeed is a mobile computer center in the Philippines that serves to meet the invisible costs of education for promising youth on or below the poverty line.

This project redesigns local public transportation (the Jeepney). Among functional redesign features (pull out writing surfaces, storage spaces, tarpaulin extensions from the jeep roof, etc,) the jeepney will also use an engine that runs on vegetable oil, significantly reducing daily expenses by 90%. A single jeep will cost $6000, and cater to 15 students, hold 10 laptops with internet access, 1 printer and necessary project materials.

Outside of transportation to and from school, and after school resource availability, the vehicle is a for hire service for employees within the city. The for-hire nature assures sustainability and allows it to earn back initial investment within 6 months of maximum use. The mobile nature of the center will also allow it to take students on a program of leadership based field trip experiences aimed at building supportive peer communities, expanding social capital and extending learning experiences outside the classroom.
 
The pilot project will target graduates from an elementary in Manila (CENTEX) that the team has worked with in the past. Graduates from this elementary have been identified as high performing students with significant economic need. The pilot project will seek to build from existing efforts of CENTEX by supporting their graduates through high school. tantu20s230.0

CIPLI is the unique EDUCATIVE MEDICAL SERVICE, in the world, created to recover patients with: Mental Illness and Conduct Disorders (Psychological Problems), WITHOUT THE USE OF DRUGS. We offer treatment/prevention service and guarantee patient integral recovery.  CIPLI’s theory has been approved in seven World Congresses and 20 International Congresses of Psychiatry since 2005 (World Psychiatric Association WPA, WASP, WADP, EPA, etc).

CIPLI has been created to RECOVER any type of Mental Illness and also restitute, to the patient, the direction of his internal energy: getting a permanent Homeostasis. All those help in the treatment of different diseases, among them: Cancer and other many regressive forms of the Being, WITHOUT THE USE OF MEDICINES. Medicines do not have the capacity to grant a permanent homeostasis, and therefore it does not get us to total health restitution. There is a lack of scientific tool to solve:

a) Corporal energetic anarchy, due to “Inversion in the direction of the Internal Energy.”

b) Internal conflicts (contradictions) which sometimes people silence or look for disguised aid to not ‘complicate’ the situation.

Thus, this service is for hopeless or declared terminally ill people or for the public who feel that nobody can entirely understand them.

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I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for imparting Education in the history of our world. By now every country and many Organizations (Profit making and non- profit making) have put in their efforts tangible and intangible to spread literacy throughout in different formats in last few decades. The critical factor that needs to be considered while learning from all earlier attempt is strive for sustainability. The ugly truth is the corporate social responsibility doesn’t help the best possible way. No doubt, that they really help but the matter of concern is the World needs more!  From Florida to France, Paris to Patna or on bigger scale the image is crystal clear no country or no continent is 100% Literate just a simple Why?

We have a dream that one day this world will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal with right to education."

We have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the farmers and their sons will be able to sit down at the table of brotherhood and discuss a better world.

We have a dream that one day even the all the continents rather all the direction, will be transformed into an oasis of education.

We have a dream that our children will one day live in a world where they will take this dream forward like science.

We believe to setup an organization which markets and provides education, if water, air and around the world can be bought as marketed surely education will be too! We aim to provide education worldwide helping existing education systems to make them more efficient and effective for a child to an adult who just wants to learn!

 We have a dream today!

Need identified: Sowing education

Target segment: Every developing individual who is striving to gain knowledge

How it’s going to be  rolled out:

Initially a survey would be conducted to determine the areas striving of education. Virtual mobile classrooms powered by solar energy and generators (fifty people to be educated at one time per class room) will be used for imparting education thereby involving low cost. Every fortnight practical workshops would be conducted by experts to enhance the skills and knowledge of students and transform them into a better individual.

Key differentiating factors: Social yet profit making. Courseware will be specially tailor made to meet the needs of these students. Imparting education in regional language along with English. Making earth a better place to live.

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Do you know anyone who could part with $25 dollars for a few months for a good cause?  How would that person feel about putting that $25 together with lots of other $25 to fund zero-interest loans to low income Americans?  Not just any low-income Americans, but people they have something in common with, like fellow employees of the same organization or company, living in the same town, being a member of the same religious or cultural group.  Our research shows that many people would like to do this of the possibility existed.  On the other side, these zero-interest loans could provide much-needed relief and assistance with essential costs such as education or utility bills or unexpected costs such as healthcare and hospital bills.  LendForGood will be a web-based service facilitating zero-interest peer-to-peer lending and borrowing for low-income Americans allowing people who care and can help a little to come together - via our website - to have a meaningful and lasting impact in an efficient, transparent and targeted way on those who need a helping hand, but want to give back what they get from others. We intend to use the power of the web help people use their spare cash to impact the lives of needy people on their doorstep. lfgdell510.0