INITIATIVE PORTFOLIO
CeraMaji
Addressing water insecurity, CeraMaji is an ICChange-driven social enterprise that manufactures ultra-low-cost ceramic, point-of-use water filters that can support a small family for up to 3 years. A unique gain-sharing franchise model empowers local community members as entrepreneurs that generate an income by selling filters in their own communities. CeraMaji reduces direct and indirect healthcare expenditures, use of dirty fuels, and the opportunity cost of water-fetching that precludes women and youth from education and generating wealth.
Solar
Oxygen Labs
Healthcare delivery in low-resource environments is often limited by the availability and cost of other resources. Solar Oxygen Labs has implemented solar-powered oxygen concentrators into 25 healthcare facilities across East Africa to provide a renewable, low-cost solution to energy insecurity that limits continuous supplemental oxygen therapy.
No innovation can take off without infrastructure and support to support it. The Kenya Innovative Manufacturing Space and Social Entrepreneurship Academy (KIMSSEA) is an ICChange-driven two-part manufacturing and distribution facility as well as a leadership/entrepreneurship training program, with the goal of accelerating under-recognized innovators from disadvantaged backgrounds to launch and scale social enterprises to serve their own communities
KIMSSEA
The management of traumatic injury necessitates an organized supply chain of pre-hospital, hospital, and post-hospital care to adequately treat critically injured patients. The Kenya Trauma and Injury Program (KTIP) is an ICChange-driven framework employed by the Kenyan Ministry of Health in their nationwide healthcare policy to manage and mitigate their high rates of traumatic injury.
KTIP
Developed health systems operate as an interconnected web of generalist and specialist care with referral networks and information sharing that shunt patients to the appropriate sites and levels of care. When health systems lack these features, the the financial and time costs of healthcare are immense and patient care suffers. The Kibera Medical Records Initiative (KMRI) developed and implemented a cloud based Electronic Medical Records (EMR) system and introduced a unique identifier for a disjointed landscape of health clinics in Kibera, the largest slum in Africa.
KMRI
