Powered by Women’s Enterprise, Solar Sister, with the Green Belt Movement, African Wildlife Foundation, USAID, ExxonMobil, and the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, committed to expanding its network of Solar Sister Entrepreneurs by recruiting, training, and supporting an additional 3,000 female energy entrepreneurs in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda to become participants in a sustainable, market-based clean energy distribution network. In addition to improving their own economic status, these energy entrepreneurs will bring the benefits of solar lighting, mobile phone charging, and clean cookstove technologies to underserved and hard-to-reach rural communities.
The Hult International Business School’s Hult Prize committed to help launch a new wave of student social entrepreneurs. Through the continuation of its established global competition, Hult will bring together more than 1,000 college and university students in five-person teams to compete to spend the summer at the Hult Accelerator – a world-class center for innovation in Boston – and secure US $1 million in seed funding to start their businesses. The best six teams will be selected to work at the Accelerator and will pitch their idea at CGI’s Annual meeting in 2013, where President Clinton, along with CGI Meeting attendees, will select and award the winning team with the US $1 million prize.
By working with partners, CHAI is implementing the Rapidly Expanding Access to Care for HIV (REACH) Program, which will simultaneously save lives and strengthen health service delivery by expanding HIV-related services in 17 hospitals across Papua and West Papua. The program will also establish 120 satellite health centers, bringing health care to poor and remote communities, which will eventually be sustained through government health systems. Additionally, CHAI and its partners have planned to scale up an integrated service approach to health services for tuberculosis, HIV treatment, and prevention of HIV transmission between mothers and their child. Over the next four years, CHAI, in partnership with the government of Indonesia, is working to test approximately 640,800 people for HIV, and provide nearly 20,160 people with antiretroviral treatment. The project is anticipated to reach more than 80 percent of people in need of testing and treatment.
The Niger Delta region of Nigeria is rich in oil but poor in infrastructure due to its history of strife. Before CHAI set out to make HIV/AIDS care accessible in the region, only a handful of hospitals were providing HIV services to the tens of thousands requiring it. With funding from the National Dutch Postcode Lottery, CHAI has been working to increase access to HIV/AIDS services for children through early infant diagnosis (EID) programs. CHAI’s work has resulted in a 350 percent increase in pediatric testing and an 80 percent return of patients who were previously not returning for treatment.
The earthquake that struck Haiti in January 2010 left hundreds of thousands of people dead, injured, or displaced and much of the country’s infrastructure in ruins. Yet already signs of Haiti’s resilience and promising future have returned. Through CGI, NRG Energy and the Solar Electric Light Fund have committed to expand clean, renewable solar energy to the Boucan Carré region, a mountainous area in central Haiti with limited infrastructure development. NRG and SELF will use a solar farm model to power medical clinics, schools, farms, water pumps, and street lights — demonstrating that renewable energy can power Haiti cleanly and affordably while also addressing conditions of chronic poverty and stalled development.