The 2011 Competition
The Competition timeline
- 1st December 2010: Call to Entries
- 21st February 2011: Closing Date for Applications
- 1st March 2011: Announcement of Short-Listed Candidates selected by the Sukuma Afrika Team
- 3rd April 2011: Announcement of Finalists after Jury Deliberation
- 3rd May 2011: Awards Ceremon
Application process
Simply download the application form and the declaration of non-prosecution, fill it in and return it before 21st February 2011 to lindi@sukumaafrika.org
Application form 2011 PDF
Application form 20111 Word.doc
Declaration of non prosecution PDF
Declaration of non prosecution Word.doc
2011 Judges Competition judges
Mr. Charles Akelyira- Director, UN Millennium Campaign Africa
Mr Kojo Parris - founder of the Social Private Equity SA (SPESA)
Dr Kerrin Myres – Director, Centre for Entrepreneurship Wits Business School
Mr. Ato Afful - Managing Director, Dialog
Dr. Pauline Jansen – President, Africa Youth Foundation
Mr. Desi Lopez Fafie - Managing Director - Oracle Africa, Chairman - Junior Achievement Africa Board
Mr. Acha Leke - Partner - MC Kinsey & CO South Africa
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Winner MDG 1 Larry Carl Keya |
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Project Description I-Farm is a start-up farm hosting three highly productive agriculturalprojects; tomato greenhouses, dairy and broiler keeping. The objective is to use its profits to set up a revolving fund to help youth start profitable agricultural ventures before banks can boost them as going concerns. Impacts:
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Winner MDG 2 Mpodumo Doubada |
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| Project Description New textbooks are very expensive, yet many students across South Africa are sitting with old textbooks that they no longer need. Pimp My Book (PMB) allows students to sell their old textbooks to PMB, putting cash back in their pockets and then PMB resells these cheaper, used textbooks to other students who can't afford expensive new textbooks, making academic resources affordable and accessible to more students. This is achieved through a network of three campus book shops, a mobile book store, an online book store and a young dedicated team. |
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Winner MDG 3 Amare Abebaw Woreta |
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| Project Description Addressing food insecurity, malnutrition and unemployment problems is our goal by empowering girls/women and by introducing innovative production and marketing methods for protein- and vitamin-rich mushrooms. We will enable 100 girls/women to produce and sell mushrooms in simple ways. These girls will establish mushroom grower associations in their villages by recruiting ten households headed by women to initiate mushroom production to reach a total of 100 girls and 1,000 households. Mushroom canning firms owned by growers will ultimately be established. |
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Winner MDG 4,5 Winstone Edward Odhiambo |
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| Project Description Edom Nutritional Solutions is a social enterprise responding to the worst health problem in Africa; micronutrient malnutrition. Staple food fortification is the least expensive, most reliable method to guarantee these critical micronutrients to mothers and to children in their first 1,000 days of life. We contract smallholder farmers to grow mushroom, amaranth and moringa oleifera, process into premix for food seasoning and flours and avail through affordable retail in smaller packs that the majority millions in the survival markets can access. |
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Winner MDG 6 Bright SimonsmPedigree |
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| Project Description mPedigree Network is Africa's leading public-private partnership committed to the use of ICTs to suppress the prevalence of counterfeit medicines across Africa and beyond by empowering consumers with a free mobile telephony service for the instant verification of medicinal authenticity at the point of sale or dispensation. mPedigree Network facilitates partnerships between and among leading mobile operators, pharmaceutical companies, technology providers, intergovernmental organisations and government regulatory agencies to create a pharmaceutical quality assurance grid accessible to all regardless of geography, income and background. By doing so, mPedigree Network works at the forefront of a campaign to prevent the deaths of at least 700,000 people annually from the fatal effects of counterfeit medicines, with the related benefit of saving the legitimate pharmaceutical industry at least $75 billion a year and thus promoting innovation and confidence in the public health system |
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Winner MDG 7 Semuyaba Sulaiman |
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| Project Description Energy Uganda Foundation is centered on the manufacturing and distribution of energy-saving charcoal stoves. These are made from wasted clay, mica, paint, saw dust, iron sheets and cement. The major part is the liner, responsible for the energy-saving function and is made through careful measurements of material mixture, taking a period of five days from molding to firing. Each takes 25 minutes to assemble, yielding a total of 30 stoves a day. To keep skilled manpower available, we recruit youth willing and able to learn and work with skills of stovemaking, thereby creating a reliable source of skilled manpower within our village area of operation. For quality control and customer satisfaction, we give warranty cards to customers, helping keep track of stoves, in turn providing after sales services to customers with genuine claims. |
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Winner MDG 8 Farai Gwaze |
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| Project Description Afropolitan New Media uses new media tools to present the entrepreneurial endeavours of young Africans in fashion, entertainment, the performing arts and music, while looking at social needs that must be met in their respective communities. Its main focus is to allow Africans to present themselves to other Africans (and the world) within a modern context. It will look at the day-to-day professional and personal lived experiences of five to eight young Africans and their contributions to the above-mentioned industries, and more importantly, to their communities. |
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