POWERED FOR PROSPERITY
We have developed a smart solar kiosk platform to distribute efficiently key services for low income people using a micro franchise model.
Profile
I am passionate about: innovative business model and product that will be a game changer to improve lives at the base of the pyramid.
A little known fact about me is: it took me 7 years to finish a 4 year college program, even tho school was not for me i refuse to quit.
Show my name on the attendees list for events I am attending: Yes
Location: Kigali, Kigali City, Rwanda
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/afrikred
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AREDRwanda
Managing director of A.R.E.D.
African Renewable Energy Distributor
"We are born to dies with a purpose."
I was born in Kenya, but grew up as a refugee in Burundi until 1996. When I finished high school, I moved to Atlanta GA to pursue university at Georgia State University. I graduated in 2003 with a computer science degree but my real passion always been entrepreneurship. I started my journey as an entrepreneur when I was 19 years old, but it took me 8 years to build my first successful business. However, during that time I learn the real power of entrepreneurship, and the growth potential it can bring to someone personal life, so I decided to start ARED and build a micro franchise business.
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We have developed a smart solar kiosk platform to distribute efficiently key services for low income people using a micro franchise model.
ARED developed a business in a box solar kiosk to empower vulnerable people using a micro franchise business model.
ARED developed a business in a box solar kiosk to empower mostly women and person with disabilities using a franchise business model.
The kiosk cost us 1500$ but we don't sale it to the micro franchisee, we are a platform as a service therefore we recruit train and monitor the kiosk operator that work on the kiosk for a revenue sharing agreement and pay a small leasing fee per month to cover the maintenance cost or insurance of the kiosk. We own the infrastructure. However we work with partners that want to build a similar smart network in their countries. So they buy the kiosk and lease the software and app systems that control the kiosk and help you monitor the whole business. I hope that make sense. We have an detail explanation of our partnership program on our website. a-r-e-d.com/partnership I hope that answer your question.
We posted some video of interviews of some of our micro franchisees please visit http://www.dw.com/en/mobile-power-to-bring-rwandas-remote-regions-into-the-future/a-39041739
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br2OualDob8
or our testimonial on our website http://www.a-r-e-d.com/#testimonial
We are looking to partners Pnud, unicef, we are looking for organization that are in the business of economic empowerment so we can speed our impact.
I hope that answer your questions.
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