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Exchange your knowledge and share the benefits!
The idea is to create a system that follows a cycle trying to waste the fewer amounts of resources with the most possible efficiency. For that reason the proposal is the creation of an innovating social cultural center within the rural communities in
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Adopt a Coffea
Provide sustainable income for farmers by encouraging internet users from all over the world to adopt coffee trees.
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WOMEN OF CALDAS, NOT ALONE
The biggest healt issue in Caldas (and growing) is malnourishment of pregnant women and small children. PREVENTIVE medicine is the key. Women could take care themselves, but they might use a little help from their friends.
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"Spill the beans" - Take-away coffee pulp fertilizer
Coffee pulp makes very good fertilizer - so why not utilize its potential? With more urbanites doing home gardening, the fertilizer can turn into a valuable take-away
Roots women roots: herbolaria
Ancients have plants to combat every disease, but as we became citizens, we live that knowledge to the pharmaceuticals. So what if we get back to that medicine? What if we turn herbalist as the medicine to cure Caldas and other cities?. All we need t
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Roving Healthcare Workers
Train a group of people in the basics of healthcare for issues common in the area, including nutrition and reproductive health. Provide them with the basic items that would be frequently needed such as nutrition packs, specialized baby formula, vacci
Local water for a global market
Create a distinct looking water bottle which can be used to sell the local Caldas spring water in a global market
Bringing the Farmer’s Market to the Internet
How could we bring the experience of a farmer’s market, where farmers sell high-quality produce directly to consumers and restaurants, to the internet? Let’s say a few farmers, all of whom create organic and high-quality produce, want to work togethe
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Network of Local Infopreneuers
The idea of the concept is to enable village grocery stores and/or rural pharmacies in remote areas to sell the goods/medication their customers/patients actually need with the help of mobile phones. Often the remote stores cannot meet the demand t
Giving them clouds... willbe
"If you give people fish, they won't be able to fish as time goes by". So what if we teach Caldas kids in a "game mode" all that can make them solve their own problems?. When they become adults, they, internally will be able to autoproduce and have t
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'Crecer y Ahorrar' / Grow & Save
Child Growth Monitoring Chart + Rewards Loyatly Card = A pharmacy rewards program allowing mothers to buy cheaper food and medical supplies for their babies while monitoring their growth (UPDATED!).
Family Health Program
Service focus on prevention and health promotion. Based on Brazil´s experience.
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Manizales - the new cool non alcoholic energy drink for the eco conscious
Instead of exporting the number one crop in the area direct, why not employ more locals to turn that crop into an exportable drink, bringing more revenue to the region and using some of those profits to drive health and education programs for the com
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Kick-backs
Loosely based idea around keeping schoolchildren in school longer time, to make them learn more. Not very well defined, because it is only the general purpose of the idea that is making me interested in this angle. So please help with ideas and how t
Inspire: a low-cost breathing assistant for infants in rural settings (www.inspiremedical.org)
Noor is a three-year old girl suffering from respiratory distress in rural Bangladesh. It took Noor and her 22-year-old mother two days of travel via buses and trains to get to a hospital. Having previously lost two infants to respiratory distress, N
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A profitable social business to provide standardised/mass customised healthcare for the masses
This concept aims to build a profitable social business which will provide standarised/mass customised healthcare for the masses. The concept aims to use the McDonald's model where employees are trained in the same way to provide the same quality and
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Franchise Health Clinic Network
Franchise Health Clinic Network is a franchise system of distribution of health clinic centered around qualified nurses as entrepreneurs in remote areas in Caldas. The health clinic serves as a basic clinic and drug stores, while maintaining a high s
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Social Business Microinvesting Markets
When seeking investments for Social Businesses, it’s important to remember that the wealthy are not the only ones who can help. In fact, while a wealthy individual can donate a higher absolute amount, studies have shown that those with average means
Amigas de la salud - Juntos vivimos mejor
"Much of what a doctor or nurse now does can be done as effectively, or sometimes even more effectively, by community health workers operating in the community, and providing home-based care." - Jeffrey SachsEconomist and Director of the Earth Inst
50% for Colombia
The current level of economic inequality is one of the starkest things that stood out from the inspiration phase & our video chat with Grameen Caldas: Colombia has the most unequal distribution of resources in Latin America (Gini coefficient of .587
Gardens on exchange
A system of private gardens that produce differents vegetables and fruits that are exchanged between neighbors.
