Using Market-Based model to Benefit the Poor: Award-Winning Strategies

_Stephanie Schmidt — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 09:34:44 -0500

The Ashoka-Changemakers community voted for the winners of the "market-based solutions strategies that benefit low-income communities" competition from a slate of 8 citizen sector finalists and 5 business sector finalists selected by a panel of judges. There were two winners from each sector - continue reading to learn more, or visit the Changemakers home page to learn more.

The 1st place winner in the business sector is Mango Tree Educational Enterprises from Uganda. Mango Tree manufactures educational products including games, toys, pictorial charts, and counseling tools for health care workers, and large format story charts. It provides training to use these tools to encourage active learning and participatory teaching. The tools are designed collaboratively with grassroots educators. They are culturally relevant, durable, inexpensive, and made from local materials that can be replicated by users (such as grain sacks, bottle tops, recycled flip-flops, bicycle spokes, gourds, and plastic jerry cans).

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Using Market-Based model to Benefit the Poor: Award-Winning Strategies