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A day at Husk Power University

Husk Power University aims to serve as a technical training institute for future mechanics and operators for Husk Power Systems in Bihar, India. 

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A pioneering model for improving learning outcomes

Hippocampus Learning Centres addresses gaps in the rural Indian education system by providing pre-school and after-school primary coaching programs to children aged 3-12.

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Fighting Blindness in Andra Pradesh

In India, there are 15 million blind people and another 52 million who are visually impaired. The majority of these cases are either preventable or treatable.

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Cotton Ginning at the BoP

Gulu Agricultural Development Company is providing market access to thousands of smallholder cotton farmers in a war-torn region of Northern Uganda.

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What Happens Next: Story of an Acumen Fund Investment

In 2007, Acumen Fund invested in Jamii Bora to create a housing development that will enable slum dwellers to own homes for the first time.  Trace the path of this investment through to 2010.

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Safe Drinking Water for Poor

WHI’s rural community water systems have already given one million people in India alone daily access to safe, affordable water. In 2007, WHI added 150 new water systems.

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Improving Livestock Productivity in Pakistan

Jassar Farms Private Ltd. (JFPL) is a corporate dairy farming business focused on dairy and breed improvement of poor livestock farmers aiming to increase milk productivity.

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Rural Last-mile Distribution Network

Drishtee, set up originally as a rural "Information and Communications Technology" (ICT) network orchestrator, has transcended into a last-mile distribution network that supports a vast number of rural entrepreneurs who provide a variety of products and services to villagers for a fee.

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Grid Electricity

D.Light provides an economically and socially preferable alternative to kerosene lanterns, which are expensive, inefficient, dangerous, and low-quality sources of light.

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Efficient Healthcare Distribution

BroadReach runs one of the largest HIV/AIDS programs for the poor in South Africa.

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Comprehensive Care for Chronic Illness

Kerala First Healthcare Services has pioneered its successful AyurVAID hospitals as a replicable and scaleable model that appropriately integrates classical Ayurveda practice with modern allopathic practice to treat chronic medical conditions such as diabetes, arthritis, and stroke.

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Providing Santitation for Urban Poor

Ecotact strives to develop innovative and implement answers to the ever increasing demands for improved sanitation in Africa and globally.

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Affordable Irrigation for Subsistence Farmers

The KB drip irrigation system is simple, inexpensive and infinitely expandable, so farmers can scale its use to the size of their plot.

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Healthy Mothers Make Happy Customers

Specializing in high quality and affordable care for mothers and children, LifeSpring is beginning to scale up across southern India.

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Securing Futures With Insurance and Loans

Kashf Foundation is offering new insurance and loan products that enable women and their families to build businesses and homes, to protect their physical health, and to secure their financial futures.

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Building Kaputei

An hour outside Nairobi the beginning of Jamii Bora's town-to-be, Kaputei, is underway. The group is constructing not just the homes, but the building materials for those houses.

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Long-Lasting Protection Against Malaria
Innovative design, technology transfer and local manufacturing of long-lasting bednets has meant the creation of thousands of jobs and the protection of millions from malaria in East Africa.