Acumen Fund's Class of 2009 Fellows met in Hyderabad, India in March 2009 for their midyear meeting. They were asked:
1. Who are your customers?
2. Any highlights from your fellowship so far?
3. Any survival tips for future Fellows?
Featured in the video in speaking order:
1. Karthik Janakiraman - Karthik is working with Global Easy Water Products (GEWP), an investment in India that provides poor farmers with access to affordable micro-drip irrigation solutions.
2. Nicole Orillac - Nicole is working with AyurVAId, a patient-centric hospital chain with a standardized approach to delivering safe, effective, and affordable care to poor communities in India.
3. Premal Desai - Premal is working with LifeSpring hospitals, which provides quality health care to lower- income women and children in India.
4. Heidi Krauel - Heidi is working with D.light, an investment in India that uses light emitting diode (LED) technology to provide an economically and socially preferable alternative to kerosene lanterns.
5. Joanna Harries - Joanna is working with Acumen Fund investee Dial 1298 for Ambulance, the Mumbai-based provider of emergency medical services with an ethos of service for all.
6. Mubarik Imam - Mubarik is working with Saiban on the housing pipeline for low-income communities in Pakistan.
7. Joel Montgomery - Joel is working with Micro Drip, and investment that procures and sells affordable drip irrigation systems to farmers in the Thardeep region of Pakistan.
8. Ramakrishnan Hariharan - Ram is working with Meridian Medical Centre, whose vision is to establish a chain of affordable, high quality outpatient clinics across Kenya.
9. Sophie Forbes - Sophie is working with Drishtee in India, a rural "Information and Communications Technology" (ICT) network orchestrator that helps local entrepreneurs to set up kiosks that provide a variety of services to villagers for a fee.
10. Suraj Sudhakar - Suraj is working with Ecotact, a Nairobi-based company that aims to improve the urban landscape for low-income communities through environmentally responsible projects in sanitation and housing
