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Using Street Vendors to Improve Children’s Health: An Innovative Solution to Malnutrition
In the urban slums of Jakarta, young kids are getting enriched, healthy nutrition from an unusual place: franchised food carts. KeBAL street food carts have grown from a small nutrition project piloted by Mercy Corps, to a thriving social enterprise with partners like DSM, the global leader in micronutrients. In this interview, DSM and Mercy Corps discuss the partnership and KeBAL’s innovative approach.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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The Best of 2012: Using Mobile to Reach Scale
About Ugandan 21,000 households are currently registered to receive SMS messages from Living Goods. With an average household size of five people Uganda, where Living Goods operates, of five people, the company is already reaching over 100,000 clients in the first three months since the platform launched. On the one day I visited Living Goods’ Kampala office, by mid-morning tea time over 320 expecting or recent mothers had already received an SMS text.
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- Technology
