You can also help entrepreneurs directly with funding and with your expertise. Sustainable Technology for Africa and the OVO Acceleration Fund are the the levers.
Would you like to cooperate with OVO to stimulate entrepreneurship in countries where it isn’t that much in evidence? You can do so as a volunteer, as a business and as an ambassador.
With a loan from OVO, Creative Farmers is investing in a state-of-the-art incubator, a first step toward a model farm where local farmers can enjoy training. "We want to be a model for local people," says founder Morris Okutta.
Senegalese women hardly generate any income to support their families. One reason is poor access to credit and other resources. The NGO SOS Faim strengthens the skills of female entrepreneurs and gives them access to the necessary resources to increase their income and achieve emancipation.
To stimulate local entrepreneurship, the support of companies is of gold value "Although we are increasingly calling for strategic partnerships between NGOs and the business world.” general manager Björn Macauter knows.
March 22 marks the annual World Water Day, which focuses on global water issues. And this is much needed: 1 in 10 people have no access to drinkable water. The Belgian NGO Join for Water is fully focused on sustainable solutions for drinking water, sanitation and agriculture - involving Belgian companies such as Renotec. In February 2020, two Renotec employees went on a immersion trip to Uganda.
A sustainable house in the shape of a triangle, which provides an answer to twelve of the seventeen sustainable development goals for the inhabitants of slums: this is Tridealhouse. This innovative concept is still in the development phase, but OVO is firmly convinced of its enormous potential and supports the project with a loan and expertise.
In Senegal, Smart Villages, a pilot project of Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs, has deployed the first solar panel farm providing electricity and water to 22 villages. "Smart Villages is a concept which we intend to deploy to ten other locations in the near future," says OVO volunteer Philippe Convents.