MMH Fellow
Shonaquip Social Enterprise
- Assigned Expertise
- Consulting, Marketing strategy
- Social impact focus
- Disability & Handicap, Physical health, Income generation, Medical devices; Assistive technology; Sales and marketing;
- Timeframe
- Part time over weeks
- Project location
- Virtual
- Project language
- English
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
We use a hybrid social enterprise model with three legal entities to ensure impact & financial sustainability We design & manufacture a range of high quality, rural appropriate assistive devices for children. We use an ecosystemic approach to inclusion. This includes disability dialogues: addressing sigma & bias, ECD programs: supporting early intervention & inclusion, parent to parent network using existing cell technology to monitor policy delivery We have invested 7 years in bringing our production up to international ISO standards so that we can leverage export as an income stream to subsidize our community development expansion into more under resourced regions in Africa. We are ready to scale and now need help with entering markets that are foreign to us.
Project Objectives
- market entry analysis ; potential agents and leads identified; roadblocks identified; implementation plan in place
- business plan completed
ABOUT Shonaquip Social Enterprise
ShonaquipSE team believe that with an appropriate assistive device, knowledge to make informed choices & agency to action them, a family of a child with a disability will never need to experience their child as less valued. We are a woman run hybrid social enterprise building ecosystems of support that address social, education & health barriers to inclusion through product & systems design, manufacture , training, last mile support services & capacity building programs. We work with approx. 21 300 direct beneficiaries & reach 272 000 through capacity building programs per annum
RELATED RESOURCES
Volunteer for this project
Are you interested in supporting this project with your skills and expertise? Great! As a Boehringer Ingelheim employee you can apply directly to volunteer in this project. If you are not sure yet and would like to have some additional information, you can contact the project owner directly to discuss further.
