Africa innovates Magazine -AI4DEV - Flipbook - Page 43
Water that has been begged for does not quench the thirst.
Ugandan Proverb
W H AT H A S B E E N T H E I M PA C T
O F YO U R P R O D U C T ?
We have so far sold over 5,000 Eco-Masks, and we hope
to scale production up to 10,000 masks a day. My ultimate goal is to manufacture as many as 10 million, and
exclusively employ youth and women. For each 10 masks
we make and sell, 5% of the proceeds are put towards
masks for the most at risk in our community, such as market vendors, slum dwellers and street children. We have
also recently introduced a model, where we accept plastic
waste as a form of financial resource in exchange for the
reusable masks. This will help reduce pollution, save our
biodiversity and reduce the carbon footprint, while giving
the most vulnerable protection against Coronavirus.
W H AT A R E T H E
C H A L L E N G E S YO U
A R E FA C I N G W I T H
YO U R B U S I N E S S ?
Funding is a challenge. And we
also know that more funding
will be needed if our projects are to sustain post
COVID-19.
Single use masks in
Uganda are expensive and also destroy
our biodiversity.
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