Susan Atieno Okwengu uses the Miti Health system to make a medication sale in her pharmacy in Kenya. The Android app quickly records sales, manages inventory, generates reports and reorders medication efficiently.
A few doctors in training at the Kajo-Keji Health Training Institute treat a patient and her child at their hospital in South Sudan. Currently, KKHTI has 128 students.
Bicycles Against Poverty team members and mechanics load bicycles for an upcoming distribution in Uganda. To date, BAP has distributed over 1,800 bicycles, impacting over 9,000 Ugandans’ lives.
Martha Kisanga from Kibosho village in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, is a local vanilla farmer for Natural Extracts Industries. By growing vanilla along with bananas and vegetables, she now earns over 200 USD more per year.
Through SPOUTS of Water, a household in Uganda owns their own water filter after paying 20 USD through monthly installments. They don’t have to worry about access to clean drinking water nor water-borne illnesses for two years.
In Kibra, Kenya, Zakayo Makite receives SMS-based content relevant to the health of his child. Totohealth is pushing for more fathers to be involved in maternal and child health.
This man traveled to Mombasa, Kenya, from his village but was unable to pay for a return trip. As a customer of iNuka Pap, he managed to borrow from the mobile phone platform that offers instant micro-loans in case of emergency.
Over 70% of Kenyans works in agriculture, but they often receive unsustainable incomes. Ojay Greene increases the incomes of smallholder farmers, like Esther Wambua, by linking them to more profitable urban markets.
A group of job seekers participates in a session on interviewing at the Duma Works office in Nairobi, Kenya. The company’s SMS-based platform helps 40% of unemployed youth in Kenya apply for jobs that match their skills.
In July 2015, nine ventures from Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and South Sudan convened in Kampala, Uganda, for the second annual Unreasonable East Africa institute. According to this post by Unreasonable East Africa’s COO Kate Hanford, 2015 was an exciting year for entrepreneurship in East Africa. Uganda earned the title of the world’s most entrepreneurial country; the Global Entrepreneurship Summit was hosted in Kenya and attended by President Obama. The momentum is massive, and these companies are on the front lines. Read their stories here, and watch a short video here. Click through this slideshow to see glimpses of their work. As the year concludes, it’s time to celebrate these ventures of 2015.
