What truly sets Healthy Bond apart is its unique commitment to breast hygiene, a crucial yet often overlooked aspect of maternal and infant health. By creating a protective barrier that prevents disease transmission from mother to child, Healthy Bond directly contributes to reducing infant mortality rates and supporting stronger, healthier families.

The journey of Healthy Bond began with a mission to tackle preventable illnesses affecting mothers and babies. The founding team was driven by a passion to improve maternal wellbeing and ensure that breastfeeding becomes a safe, empowering, and fulfilling experience for every mother.

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She Deserves offers an alternative approach using aromatherapy to provide an effective cramp relief dropper. Their product is designed to be easy to carry and use, with no side effects. Users apply a few drops of the relief dropper over the cramping area and rub it for one minute. It generates instant warmth, allowing the oil to be absorbed into the body, thereby helping to relax the cramping muscles within 10 to 15 minutes. They empower girls to have safe, happy, and pain-free periods, enabling them to reach their full potential.

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Malaria is one of today’s major global health challenges and has been associated with slow socioeconomic development and poverty. Uganda has some of the highest reported malaria transmission rates in the world, with approximately 16 million cases reported in 2013 and over 100 000 deaths annually.

Our Solution:

By selling our product with a high margin to resorts, lodges and high end hotels for tourists looking for a natural way of preventing mosquitoes and malaria during their trip, we are able to cross finance and subsidize our sales to rural mothers at the same price as ordinary soap. The impact is leveraging an every day consumer product to fight malaria. Tourists enjoy a locally made and organic repellent soap in their bathrooms while rural mothers are able to protect themselves and their children against one of the biggest killers in Uganda.

Soap is an everyday product even extremely poor families in Africa use almost daily. What if we could sell a soap in rural Uganda which is able to prevent mosquito bites at the same price as ordinary soap? We produce an affordable and long-lasting organic mosquito repellent soap that helps mothers with children below the age of five in rural communities to prevent mosquito bite.

Uganics is the winner of the 2019 Africa Innovation Challenge.

Hear the whole story of the creation of Uganics from the founder Joan Nalubega in this Podcast.

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The Social Problem
In Uganda 78% of the primary school children and 82% of the secondary school students report having experienced sexual abuse at school (UNICEF 2013). According to the Annual Crime Report (2013) of the Uganda Police Force, close to 10,000 cases of defilement were reported in 2013, making it the second leading crime committed in Uganda. Astoundingly, only four percent of perpetrators have been convicted. The number of unreported cases are unknown but are estimated to be as high as even 50,000 per year. Tens of thousands of girls suffer in silence, while the perpetrators are not prosecuted. Like in my own case, it often happens within family settings and this is what makes it so difficult and often impossible for the victims to talk about. They do not want to be responsible for breaking the family apart or they fear the consequences of e.g. not receiving school fees or basic needs. The fear that no one will believe often leaves the victim to blame herself, even hate herself sometimes for the rest of their live or committing suicide. Without being able to speak about the events, girls end up being affected for life about the way they perceive themselves, relationships with men and lack of self-belief. Janet Aguti was one of the girls sexually abused as a child. For 17 years she did not find the courage to tell anyone. She started to see her past as strength rather than a subject of shame and Today, Janet Aguti is the founder and driving force of Totya Platform.

The Solution
Totya Platform provides support to victims of sexual violence through Peer Groups, Life-Coaching- in person and online, as well as medical and legal support of severe cases. Anonymous interactions with survivors of sexual violence, who overcame sexual abuse themselves, enable users to speak about their experiences while receiving emotional care and self-help tools. Our service is free and available to those who were victims of sexual violence – no matter what type or by whom – in their childhood or as youths. Totya supports all questions and problems that have resulted from the sexual violence and its effects as an adult. Coaching sessions are absolutely confidential.

If you would wish to talk to Totya Platform, send a message (also WhatsApp) to (+256) (0)759 296 003 (internationally) or call the Free End Sexual Abuse Hotline: 080 0220630 (Uganda only)

People who have successfully transformed the experiences are encouraged to find strength in speaking up, joining our campaigns online campaigns to break the taboo on speaking about sexual abuse. For continuous self-organized support among each other, self-help groups are initiated for the women, meeting regularly and in person.

Find an academic impact assessment of Totya Platform here.

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Eco Belleza’s secret lies in its choice of ingredients, prominently featuring aloe vera—a plant renowned for its skin-healing prowess. Their commitment to quality is evident as they source aloe vera from their demo farm, ensuring unmatched purity.

What truly sets Eco Belleza apart is its unique reliance on slime as the primary ingredient, harvested from snails. This slime, crafted organically, is the foundation for their skincare products. It’s a game-changer, effectively addressing skin complications without unwanted side effects.

Eco Belleza’s journey began with a personal mission. The founder, Angela, and her team were driven by a deep-seated desire to create solutions for persistent acne, an issue they had personally experienced and seen afflict their loved ones.

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As Babykit Company Limited, we make and offer durable and affordable baby warmers to lactating and expecting mothers of 0-3 month babies to protect them from coldness that causes pneumonia.

Therefore, Babykit company uses locally grown materials (cotton) from the local community farmers to make and produce affordable baby warmers.

We make baby warmers for lactating and expecting mothers with 0-3 month babies made from locally grown cotton for mothers to use by entering the newborn baby into the warmer so the baby feels warm and cold. This will help babies feel like they are with their mothers as the warmer provides warmth. Mothers will have enough time to do other domestic work as babies enjoy the product as they have low-income status will also help.

The babykit products are the sifo warmer [sifo means good in the local language, and the heavy baby blanket warmer.] They enter the baby into the sifo warmer while the heavy baby blanket, they use it for covering the babies, and they are all made out from the locally grown cotton grown by the community members.

“The current alternatives are the health partner offering light baby clothes, and the traders offering baby saws that are light and expensive mothers cannot afford to purchase. While babykit uses locally grown materials, cotton, for making very cheap baby warmers and affordable compared to the current solutions, which are expensive at 60,000 ugx compared to ours at 20,000 ugx.

Babykit is accessible and reliable within the community compared to the other solutions, which are far away. They are inaccessible and unreliable to their customers.

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