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VillageReach Last Milers Report
On June 27, 2010, VillageReach staff members competed in the annual Mountains to Sound relay race. Our team, the Last Milers, traveled a total of 100 miles from the Cascade Mountains to Seattle’s Puget Sound. The relay race consisted of a mountain bike, road bike, kayak, and two running legs. We finished the entire race [...]
Cultivating Markets Part 4: Big Events Recap
Over the past two weekends, we ran four “Big Events” in the bairros of Namicopo and Namutequiliua. The Big Events are, as the name suggests, big promotional events to further promote LPG and VidaGas products. We had music, theatre, dancing, and giveaways among other things to entertain and educate people about LPG. We selected high-traffic [...]
Cultivating Markets Part 3: Developing a business model and toolkit for the BoP
I’m sure many of you browsing this blog are familiar with C.K. Prahalad’s groundbreaking book,The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid. In his book Prahalad offers us insight into the vast, potential wealth that exists among consumers at the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP). In fact, he’s talking about over 4 billion people and [...]
Cultivating Markets: Increasing household access to propane in Mozambique Part 2
March was the month that we began to make significant strides with the project. We gained permission from the community leader of the Namicopo bairro (neighborhood) to conduct our awareness campaign. Fernando, our Lead Promoter, has been busy developing a “toolkit” of resources for the market analysis, and putting together a team for the campaign. [...]
Cultivating Markets: Increasing household access to propane in Mozambique Part 1
My name is Peter Nakamura and I am one of the newest members of the VillageReach team. I am currently based in Nampula, Mozambique to help coordinate a project funded by USAID to help individual households gain access to propane. The project is coordinated through VillageReach and its social business, VidaGas – the largest distributor [...]
Global Health Trends Heading Towards VR
Reliable delivery of medicines, vaccines, and health commodities at the last mile of the supply chain has been the focus of VillageReach since our inception. Earlier, we discussed the challenge of conveying our message and our work when the issues are complex, relatively unknown in the United States, and difficult to describe. We are happy to [...]
Global Health Supply Chain Summit
This week VillageReach President, Allen Wilcox, will be speaking at the 2nd Annual Global Health Supply Chain Summit. The theme of this years conference is “Bringing Government, NGOs, and Academia Together: What can be learned from the for-profit world?” We are excited to be included in this conference again this year- the theme alone could [...]
Greetings from SoCap
Greetings from SoCap, the annual gathering of social entrepreneurs and investors here in San Francisco, billed as the largest of its kind in the world. Yesterday was a flurry of sessions covering topics as varied as India social business developers strengthening remote tribal communities through weaving and arts and craft cooperatives, to new pharmaceutical ventures [...]
VillageReach Named 2009 Tech Awards Laureate!
After yesterday’s announcement of Oasis Fund’s investment in VidaGas, VillageReach has even more good news to share: VillageReach has been recognized by the 2009 Tech Awards as a Laureate in the Health Awards category!
Each year, the Tech Awards recognizes 15 global innovators who apply technology to the most critical issues affecting the world. This year, [...]
Innovative Pro-Poor Healthcare Financing and Delivery Models
The Rockefeller Foundation and Results for Development Institute just released their report that offers a landscape view of successful global healthcare financing and delivery models involving the private sector. VillageReach’s model is recognized as an innovative model in supply chain management. While the identified models span a wide variety of services and strategies, it [...]
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