Winner Spotlight
D-Prize alumni are working across health, agriculture, energy, and education in some of the world's most underserved communities. See who's in the network.
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Lafiya
Delivering 1 Million+ Doses of Contraceptives Across Northern Nigeria
2020 Winner
Millions of women across Northern Nigeria struggle to access reliable contraceptive care, particularly in remote and underserved communities. Klau Pakos and Yifei Jefferson Chen believed there was a better way. In 2021, they applied to D-Prize with an idea for bringing free, safe contraceptives to women who needed them most. With early support from D-Prize, they tested their approach and began building toward scale. Today, Lafiya has delivered more than 1 million doses of contraceptives across Northern Nigeria, helping expand access to essential reproductive healthcare.
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Santé Initiative Uganda
Providing 8,500+ Reading Glasses to Improve Vision and Livelihoods Across Uganda
2024 Winner
For many people across Uganda, declining eyesight can make it harder to work, earn an income, and carry out everyday tasks. Irene Mbabazi and her co-founder, Derrick Bary Abila, wanted to change that. When they applied to D-Prize, they had the ambition and commitment, but not the funding to turn their idea into action. Through D-Prize, they piloted their reading glasses model, tested what worked, and moved from concept to execution with technical support along the way. Today, their venture, Santé Initiative Uganda, has distributed more than 8,500 reading glasses, helping people see clearly and earn a living.
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4Her2Her
Empowering 1000 Girls in Malawi with a Unique Sex Education Program
2022 Winner
Four girls growing up in Malawi experienced peer pressure to enter into risky, sexual relationships with older men. Fortunately, Phindu Banda, Angella Bwilani, Diana Gulitsa and Mirriam Sibale had access to positive role models and sex-ed resources. They avoided this future, but they watched many other girls fall into this trap. Now they have launched a new organization, 4Her2Her, to provide an evidence-based sex-ed program and help young girls throughout Malawi.
Full Catalog of Past D-Prize Seeded Organizations
Opal Health will equip pregnant women to solve their own maternal and newborn care barriers.
LoomED Foundation’s mission is to improve foundational literacy and numeracy outcomes for children in underserved communities by equipping teachers and volunteers with effective, level-appropriate teaching approaches, developing contextually relevant learning resources, strengthening community participation, and generating evidence that can inform wider education improvement.
The Rural Education Project (REP) aims to improve foundational literacy and numeracy among primary school children by implementing the teaching at the right level (TaRL) methodology in underserved rural communities in Eastern Nigeria.
EarlySpark Foundation empowers children and young people through inclusive, equitable education while strengthening schools, educators, and communities to create lasting opportunities for learning and growth.
Benih Indonesia delivers a Teaching at the Right Level model that helps Papuan primary students master their foundational skills.
Kulea Hive designs and delivers evidence-based education solutions that strengthen education systems, empower communities, and improve learning outcomes for children, starting with the distribution of proven foundational-learning interventions to underserved learners.
The mission of Village Opportunities Through Education (VOTE) is to improve foundational learning outcomes for children in underserved rural communities by providing effective, accessible, and sustainable education opportunities using TaRL.
Clear Farm Solutions is increasing access to quality agricultural inputs and innovations for smallholder farmers in rural communities.
Greeno Farmtech enables smallholder farmers to increase productivity and income by providing quality agricultural inputs on flexible credit, embedded agronomic support, and reliable market access.
HuluSolar’s mission is to expand access to clean, affordable solar energy for off-grid communities in Ethiopia through a trusted network of local Solar Ambassadors.
Azi Health Oxygen Technology Ltd’s mission is to improve access to reliable medical oxygen by restoring and maintaining oxygen concentrators, strengthening preventive maintenance systems, and building local technical capacity to ensure sustainable oxygen delivery in low-resource health facilities across Uganda.
RoadAwareCameroon (RAC) aims to reduce dangerous driving in Cameroon by empowering passengers and creating visible accountability systems that encourage safer behavior in taxis.
Worth Alliance’s mission is to deliver agriculture-based poverty graduation solutions that combine ISA capital, training, and market access, impacting 100,000 ultra-poor women and youth in Kenya within 10 years.
Phindu Enterprise's mission is to help smallholder farmers escape poverty by providing post-harvest financing and market access solutions that enable them to capture the full value of their harvests.
Imbuto Initiative prevents postpartum hemorrhage in underserved communities by enabling Community Health Workers to provide misoprostol for unavoidable home births while strengthening rapid emergency response, emergency referrals, and maternal savings.
Readers Hub increases access to affordable non-prescription reading glasses for underserved adults aged 40 and above in Nigeria.
OxySure's mission is to ensure reliable, life-saving oxygen access for vulnerable communities in Uganda by embedding a scalable, technician-led preventive maintenance model that keeps oxygen concentrators consistently functional in under-resourced hospitals.
Synchora Health increases immunization completion for children by delivering voice and SMS reminders to caregivers and point-of-care tracking to health workers.
Niora Systems is building the financial infrastructure for reliable medicine access in emerging markets by reducing volatility in pharmaceutical procurement.
SafeStart expands access to safe drinking water through a community-based chlorine access model in rural Kano State, Nigeria.
LOCS is a social enterprise that aims to restore productivity and independence in Kenya by integrating affordable reading glass distribution into the national health system through a network of trained Community Health Volunteers.
MIA works on increasing full childhood immunization in Malawi by using SMS reminders and conditional cash transfers to ensure children receive life-saving vaccines on time.
Youth Impact Philippines (TISA) will utilize TISA-hired and trained facilitators to deliver mEducation (ConnectEd), which will allow the venture to test and adjust for optimization through different delivery models, including testing necessary variations for different regions across the Philippines.
Youth Impact India is leveraging proven, inclusive, and resilient approaches to transform foundational numeracy for children in India’s deepest hinterlands.
FemCare Initiative is dedicated to ensuring no woman in Nigeria dies of cervical cancer by combining awareness in local dialects, VIA screenings, and follow-up.
Harvest Guard Solutions (HGS)’s mission is to empower smallholder farmers with affordable, innovative post-harvest technologies and pre-harvest financial support, reducing food losses, enhancing food security, and increasing household incomes.
Safe Drop Solutions’ mission is to provide rural communities in Malawi with affordable and sustainable clean water through Ecofiltro water filters, improving health and livelihoods.
Congo Water Solution (CWS) is a social enterprise with the aim of increasing access to clean and safe water through affordable and reliable household water filters to underprivileged communities.
Enkumbi Terimba Aqi Uganda empowers smallholder farmers in rural Uganda with affordable, high-quality agricultural inputs, training, and cost-effective distribution to boost yields, reduce post-harvest losses, improve market access, and drive food security, income growth, and long-term poverty alleviation.