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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.

- 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.

- 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.

- 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.

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

- 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.

- 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.

- 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.

- 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.

- 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.

- 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.

- 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.