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Sharia Huda: Making Connections for Greater Inclusion and Funding

Sharia Huda: Making Connections for Greater Inclusion and Funding
Sharia: I am trying to build more partnerships between investors, non-profits, schools and startups across developing countries so that those local entrepreneurs can thrive and build their communities. For example, one of my recent in-the-works partnerships is between a non-profit, a school system based in Haiti, and a solar wind company. The goal is to bring solar wind energy into developing countries so that students can have access to the internet. With access to the internet comes information and with information comes ideas—so future entrepreneurs can give back to their country.

Pulkit Shamshery: Ready to Illuminate the World

Pulkit Shamshery: Ready to Illuminate the World
Pulkit: Illumina Africa’s mission is to provide sustainable energy and water infrastructure to every single individual on our planet and the wider universe. Currently, we build, own, and operate, solar photovoltaic power plants and provide low-cost sustainable electricity to industries, offices, residential and off-grid individuals.

Joshua Pritchett: Offering Vulnerable Patients Safe and Affordable Access to Prescriptions

Joshua Pritchett: Offering Vulnerable Patients Safe and Affordable Access to Prescriptions
Joshua: Two of the major addressable problems that exist today in healthcare are medication access and adherence. Both problems can be deeply interdependent and can result in severe and sometimes fatal outcomes for patients. To combat these problems, Medisend is developing an on-demand medicine delivery platform and proprietary algorithms to make obtaining medication convenient, faster, and cheaper.