Hi, this sounds like a most excellent idea!

FYI- Myoo Create is running similar challenge- the Beat Waste Startup challenge, a contest for new start-ups that seek to reduce or eliminate waste. I'm thinking that this would make a great entry. First place is $15,000 and second place is $7,500. The last day to submit an entry is June 27th (PST). You can find full details here: http://www.myoocreate.com/challenges/the-plastiki-beat-waste-startup-challenge

Please feel free to get in touch if you have any questions and email me if you think you'll enter. Best of luck with everything!

Cheers,
Valerie Yep
valerie@myoocreate.com
http://myoocreate.com
http://twitter.com/myoocreate

 This sounds wonderful! Love the waste reducing component. 

FYI- Please consider entering the Beat Waste Startup Challenge from Myoo Create. There is a $15,000 first place prize and a $7,500 second place prize. All you need to enter the first round is a brief 200 word description and a short 3 min. (max) youtube video. You could probably just use the same video and trim 30 seconds off somewhere. The last day to enter is June 27th, full details can be found at: http://www.myoocreate.com/challenges/the-plastiki-beat-waste-startup-challenge

Looks like you would be a good match! Good luck with everything and hope to see an entry from you!

Cheers,
Valerie Yep
valerie@myoocreate.com
http://myoocreate.com
http://twitter.com/myoocreate

Great Idea :)

I visited Kibera last September with the Christian Foundation for Children and Aging and was moved beyond words.  I met so many wonderful human beings and even visited their homes.  We also visited a YMCA school and as former teacher, I was in awe of the joy and love I experienced.  Bless you a million times over the for the tremendous work you will be doing in Kibera.  I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers.  I will be back in Kenya in September and October of this year and possibly I will have the honor of meeting you.  God bless....

Hi,

This is a great proposal and your idea in motion already, gives good statistics of future development and sustainability!
Excellent!
Will be at the UT conference center event & wish you luck!
GO Brak it Down, GO!

Great idea but this is the same model that MicroEnsure (www.microensure.com), PlanetGuarantee and the Aga Kahn's FMIA all use. People have been doing this brokerage model as a mission driven micro insurance intermediary for almost ten years now. The Gates Foundation has made over $80m of investment in this model.

@ticklemepink6789 Of course, our CEO already has plans to intern for the Ministry of Agriculture in Rwanda this summer and I (COO) am in Europe at the moment organic farming in order to learn about sustainable agricultural practices.  We plan on implementing our model whether we win our not, but the seed funding would could surely help us get started ASAP.
Thanks for your question.

Cordial Saludo

Nico, Laura, Jose, Juan y Pipe, queridos amigos colombianos y hermanos de patria, queremos agradecerles por representarnos a los Colombianos en una concurso tan importante que no solo busca ayudar al medio ambiente si no a las personas mas necesitados y de igual manera felicitarlos por mostrarnos a nosotros como una gente emprendedora, creativa y que a pesar de las dificultades que pasa nuestro pais poder mostrar que somos capaces de superarnos y hacer grandes cosas... por esto esperamos de todo corazon, que sean los ganadores de este premio, para que puedan realizar un cambio no solo a nivel ambiental sino tambien economico y social.

El Colegio Nuestra Señora de Lourdes, LOS APOYA! ANIMO!

Atentamente las estudiantes : Laura Margarita Bayona Fontalvo y Paola Andrea Paipa Ortiz

 @coarn, arunprajna, nishant453

I believe the aim of PoverUp is to help those who live under 2$ a day, including those who are unable to receive a proper education, not to ask them to donate 5-10$. They want to get the donations from students in the developed world. The 2% predicted donation rate accounts for those who are unable or unwilling to donate i.e. they assume only 2 out of 100 students in the developing world will donate 5-10$. With these numbers and generous assumptions, they still predict they will be able to make a significant impact on those living under the poverty line.

The main points of the project are to help people out of poverty and to increase student awareness and involvement, which I think are excellent goals that are within reach.

They definitely got my vote.

-A fan from Egypt

Un profesional, puede ayudar a comunidades pobres ya que tienen la capacidad, pero me dio cuenta que toda persona con deseo de ayudar puede marcar la diferencia en el mundo.

orgulloso de ser Dominicano.

 Thanks @deepti.pradeep, you've written perfectly what I wanted to write in my answer to 
@jaikang's question. So many votes is enough to suspect a fraud.
@jaikang, I hope you've got the answer.

• THIS IDEA IS HIGHLY EXPINSIE IN MONEY BUT NOT A REVOLUTIONARY IDEA TOWARDS POVERTY .IN VILLAGE AREA THERE IS NOT A ENVIROMENT OF KNOWLEDGE AND CAN NOT ABLE TO UNDERSTAND THE WORLD OF COMPUTER . THIS PROJECT IS A WASTE OF MONEY AND TIME .

Very cool dude... Great job!!!
all the best...

This will save lives.

Absolutely  our  accolades from New Mexico,
too too much like Old Mexico ! -Katje the Scandi

I wish you two the best of luck. Such a well thought out and innovative project!

Pragmatic and good one. Good luck 

Bitone is great,, they are full of love and peace, dancing and expressing their love and magic. ♥♥♥♥

Very fine idea!

Good luck with your program.

If you want a fun poetry writing class, let me know!
I could also do a workshop for teachers in the creative writing method.

(I would need someone to translate what I say in workshop into your language for those who do not have a working command of English yet.)  ~Karen, klewis@mcn.org (California Poets in the Schools)

 This is an incredible project--every pump is impacting hundreds of lives and sustainably transforming communities.  Good Luck!!