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Alumni 2018
Bayer Foundations Alumni 2018 The 5 G 4I winn ers have the coll power to ective solve challeng es 2 billion that over p the plan eople on et are fa cing!
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he 2018 Bayer Foundations Alumni day this summer in Berlin included the inspiring Grants4Impact (G4I) final. This is the energiser programme from Bayer Foundations, which grants one million euros to social impact pioneers transforming the worlds of health and nutrition. Thimo V. Schmitt-Lord, CEO at Bayer Foundations, opened the pitches session with stories and insight on the global roadshow he led with his team to identify innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. “If you want to be a start-up billionaire - you have to solve a billion people’s problem,” Thimo said. From 11 finalists, the winners were: COOLAR, iBreastExam, SANISOLAR , BISA and SafetyNet. They will now be ‘connected to knowledge, power and funding in order to grow and transform good ideas into global game-changer solutions’ as part of a 24-month programme.
Meet your doctor online service app
Goal: Disrupt the way how people in remote areas of Africa gain 1st access to doctors and hospitals.
Company
BISA M-Health
Location Ghana
G4I Pilot Senegal
Scalability Africa
NGO Partner YOU Foundation
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illions of people in rural Africa life more than a day of traveling away from the next doctor – with little to no access to basic health. BISA “Ask Your Doctor Online” gives remote people in Africa access to health. In G4I, BISA will expand the wellestablished service from Ghana into Senegal with a new French version of BISA’s app.
