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Kenyan insurtech startup Pula raises $6M Series A to derisk smallholder farmers across Africa

TechCrunch

But if they witness any of these climate risks during the season, they would want to get insurance, which is counterproductive to Pula,” said the founder in a phone call. They include Senegal, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique. Image Credits: Pula.

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Sun King raises $260M to widen clean energy access in Africa, Asia

TechCrunch

Its current systems can power lights, mobile phones and small home appliances like TVs. Countries like South Sudan, Burundi, Chad, Malawi, Burkina Faso, Madagascar and Tanzania are among the least electrified in the world and could benefit from clean energy technologies. The company was founded in 2007 by T.

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Three ways to quickly analyze fundraising performance with Tableau

Tableau

Eric Dayton, Director of Data at buildOn , faced many unknowns when he came home from Malawi on March 3rd, a week before the COVID shutdown. Tableau helps you take the next step to give your people the power of data, whether they’re a fundraising leader reading a report on their phone or a funder visiting your website. .

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How Mobile Phones Are Saving Lives in the Developing World

AFP Blog

How Mobile Phones Are Saving Lives in the Developing World : "In six months, our pilot in Malawi saved the clinical staff 1,200 hours of follow-up time and more than $3,000 in motorbike fuel,” Nesbit says. Further, it doubled the number of patients who were treated for Tuberculosis (TB).

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Mobile Innovations for Social Good

NTEN

Mobile Voices offers an open-source multi-media platform optimized for low-cost mobile phones that lets users create, share, and reflect on stories about their lives and communities. million patients in Malawi and Uganda, they've seen that text messages and cheap mobile phones are great tools on the front-lines of global health.

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Three ways to quickly analyze fundraising performance with Tableau

Tableau

Eric Dayton, Director of Data at buildOn , faced many unknowns when he came home from Malawi on March 3rd, a week before the COVID shutdown. Tableau helps you take the next step to give your people the power of data, whether they’re a fundraising leader reading a report on their phone or a funder visiting your website. .

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Vote Now: Ten Sessions We Want to See at NTC

Care2

But capturing a lead online is a great way to find your next online, phone, or direct mail donor. The key is to get all the information you need to deploy a multichannel conversion strategy, with a focus on converting online leads into monthly donors over the phone.

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