Social Entrepreneurs in Uganda

Besides teaching classes on business planning at Educate schools, I have been meeting Ugandan social entrepreneurs to get advice on the country's needs, gather input on Educate's model, and enlist help in creating business plans to serve as examples of triple bottom line business for our students. Right, is Dr. Musaazi, an engineering professor at Makarere University, who has developed an innovative way to make interlocking building bricks without firing the product. This not only saves fuel wood, but it also results in cheaper building costs.















Here, workers are making a wall made from the Dr. bricks at the University rugby field. In a brillant move, the Dr. used the soil from leveling the field, to consrtuct the walls, the locker room, and the stadium seating.




Here is the locker room.

I also meet with Mr. Mohammad, the owner of Ugastove. Ugastove is a innovative charocoal stove that uses 50% lees fuel the conventional stoves in Uganda. Mr. Mohammad has partnered with JP Morgan Chase's Climate Care program and CEIHD to apply carbon credits to his business model. Mr. Mohammad can now sell ugastoves below costs because the price is subsidized by the revenue from carbon credit in the UK market.

Mr. Mohammad is hoping to mechanize operations so that he can reduce the price point even further. Soon his stove will be price competitive with convential stoves that waste large amounts of charcoal, saving Ugandan much of their income. It should be easy to compete with cheap stove then.