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Activity Description: Village Reach founded VidaGas to fund its healthcare programs. VidaGas provides the power that rural healthcare facilities in Mozambique need to refrigerate vaccines and remain open at night. The company is also negotiating with the government to provide energy to government offices in non-health ministries, businesses, and individual households. Village Reach intends to establish other income-gen

Activity Description: The VillageReach business model offers an integrated portfolio of solutions that empowers governments and local partners to extend the reach of public health systems, and improve economic conditions and quality of life. The organization uses a supply chain to build and manage transport networks, dedicated fleets, and inventory systems to ensure timely delivery of essential health supplies and facilitate outreach services; a cold chain to build and manage refrigeration systems to transport and store temperature-sensitive vaccines and medical supplies; injection safety to provide waste management tools, new technologies, and training to ensure safe injection practices by medical personnel; energy to provide clean and cost-effective energy solutions to improve the quality of health services and benefit communities; communications to deploy communication networks to support operations, reporting, and emergency response systems; community involvement to partner with local community leaders to extend quality health services beyond the formal healthcare system; and income-generating activities to launch synergistic commercial ventures to promote local economic development and generate revenues to support our healthcare initiatives.

Activity Description: In 1999, Unilever Africa Regional Group created a separate business unit called Popular Foods to target mass-market consumers with nutritious foods at affordable prices. One of their first products was Annapurna, a refined iodised salt sold in small sachets to help preserve the iodine - a product originally developed for the Indian market by Hindustan Lever. The salt has important health benefits for those who suffer from Iodine Deficiency Disorder, which can cause retardation, brain damage, and, in pregnancy, stillbirths and congenital abnormalities.