There are some wonderful ideas that you present here and that you are working to carry out. We are still unclear on the exact delivery model, how will the programs be carried out on a day to day basis? You also appear to be starting up various initiatives, how do they build on one another and help strengthen the overall goals? We would love some more detailed description of how the programs work.
It is very exciting to have you entry in the Changemakers competition. I love your focus on waste management and recycle. It is a very important project and one of only a few entries that consider the environment. Great work! Do you have any estimates of approximately how much Garbage you have collected since the start of your project? What has been the feedback from the community? Are you working with any other organizations?
Finally, I encourage you to connect with Emily Pierce the Vice President of Carolina for Kibera. CFK is working on similar projects involving youth, soccer and the community. You can email cfk@unc.edu and the link to the entry is below. http://www.changemakers.net/en-us/node/1975
Good luck and keep up the great work!
All the best,
Dana Frasz
Changemakers
Hello-
I also admire your proposal because it does include a focus on the environment. For more information on how people have taken on garbage collection in unserved areas and made money and created social change, look up Albina Ruiz and her work in Peru.
My other comments also reiterate an earlier comment about focus. I think your goals are admirable and you obviously are starting from a place where you already have worked in this area and where you have had success with other projects. What makes this exciting is that you have an opportunity for revenue-generation and you have a focus on women/soccer/garbage collection (as well as many secondary and tertiary foci ...that is where some of us are possibly getting lost). With this focus, I think you need to think further about who will pay for the garbage collection, how the girls will feel about doing the collection, keeping the girls safe from dangerous garbage, and perhaps getting corporate sponsors from waste management corporations around the world...they are huge companies and some of them must have CSR and sustainability goals that you could identify and build upon. Also, I think you might need to strengthen the tie between the garbage collection and sports/soccer. As I understand from my fast read of the above, the link is that the girls are clearing their playing field. Is this enough incentive? If the girls clear other areas, what about revenue sharing (some for your org/some for the sports goals/some for the girls? Then, sports is advanced, more areas are cleaned, and the girls and their families have a chance to make money- which might mean other family and community members will help.
Happy to work with you to find even more ties...and I apologize if I read the above too fast and missed a connection.
Best,
Lisa
Lisa Jones Christensen
Faculty Commentator
UNC Chapel Hill
Thanks for your entry into the competition. We love the combination between social and environmental outcomes. Similar to the Changemakers teams, we had a few clarifying questions:
• Is this project an idea or has it been implemented yet?
• Have you done any market research to conclude that residents will pay the nominal fee for the daily garbage collections?
• Will those fees collected in aggregate pay for the program as well as fund stipends to the girls? If so, what percentage would go to each?
• How are the girls selected for the program? Is their an age range that will work best?
• What is your theory of change specifically? If you are interested, we just recently posted a general piece on the contest criteria – innovation, scale, and impact – that might help you answer this question. (see http://www.changemakers.net/en-us/node/729#comment-2686.)
If you have specific questions on this posting, please don’t hesitate to reach out.
Sincerely,
Paul Bloom
Senior Research Scholar of Social Entrepreneurship and Marketing
Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship
Duke University – Fuqua School of Business
Suzanne Steffens
CASE Scholar
MBA Student, Class of 2008
Duke University – Fuqua School of Business
Hi Wycliffe,
I run a new foundation, Women Win, which gives financial support to projects that empower women and girls through sport. I really enjoyed reading your entry and have the same questions as the people below. I would very much be interested in your response. Your project sounds both useful and innovative! Looking forward to reading more about it. Warmly,
Astrid Aafjes
Women Win www.womenwin.org
Comments
Wycliffe Mboya Ngoya
CEO and the Director
Sacrena Sporting Organization
P.O.Box 138-40123
Kisumu-Kenya
Tel:+254 724 799 727
email:sacrenakenya@yahoo.com
email:wycliffemboya@yahoo.com
skype name:sacrenakenya
Dear Wycliffe:
There are some wonderful ideas that you present here and that you are working to carry out. We are still unclear on the exact delivery model, how will the programs be carried out on a day to day basis? You also appear to be starting up various initiatives, how do they build on one another and help strengthen the overall goals? We would love some more detailed description of how the programs work.
Thank you kindly in advance for your response!
Best,
Changemakers Team
It is very exciting to have you entry in the Changemakers competition. I love your focus on waste management and recycle. It is a very important project and one of only a few entries that consider the environment. Great work! Do you have any estimates of approximately how much Garbage you have collected since the start of your project? What has been the feedback from the community? Are you working with any other organizations?
Finally, I encourage you to connect with Emily Pierce the Vice President of Carolina for Kibera. CFK is working on similar projects involving youth, soccer and the community. You can email cfk@unc.edu and the link to the entry is below.
http://www.changemakers.net/en-us/node/1975
Good luck and keep up the great work!
All the best,
Dana Frasz
Changemakers
Hello-
I also admire your proposal because it does include a focus on the environment. For more information on how people have taken on garbage collection in unserved areas and made money and created social change, look up Albina Ruiz and her work in Peru.
My other comments also reiterate an earlier comment about focus. I think your goals are admirable and you obviously are starting from a place where you already have worked in this area and where you have had success with other projects. What makes this exciting is that you have an opportunity for revenue-generation and you have a focus on women/soccer/garbage collection (as well as many secondary and tertiary foci ...that is where some of us are possibly getting lost). With this focus, I think you need to think further about who will pay for the garbage collection, how the girls will feel about doing the collection, keeping the girls safe from dangerous garbage, and perhaps getting corporate sponsors from waste management corporations around the world...they are huge companies and some of them must have CSR and sustainability goals that you could identify and build upon. Also, I think you might need to strengthen the tie between the garbage collection and sports/soccer. As I understand from my fast read of the above, the link is that the girls are clearing their playing field. Is this enough incentive? If the girls clear other areas, what about revenue sharing (some for your org/some for the sports goals/some for the girls? Then, sports is advanced, more areas are cleaned, and the girls and their families have a chance to make money- which might mean other family and community members will help.
Happy to work with you to find even more ties...and I apologize if I read the above too fast and missed a connection.
Best,
Lisa
Lisa Jones Christensen
Faculty Commentator
UNC Chapel Hill
Dear Wycliffe,
Thanks for your entry into the competition. We love the combination between social and environmental outcomes. Similar to the Changemakers teams, we had a few clarifying questions:
• Is this project an idea or has it been implemented yet?
• Have you done any market research to conclude that residents will pay the nominal fee for the daily garbage collections?
• Will those fees collected in aggregate pay for the program as well as fund stipends to the girls? If so, what percentage would go to each?
• How are the girls selected for the program? Is their an age range that will work best?
• What is your theory of change specifically? If you are interested, we just recently posted a general piece on the contest criteria – innovation, scale, and impact – that might help you answer this question. (see http://www.changemakers.net/en-us/node/729#comment-2686.)
If you have specific questions on this posting, please don’t hesitate to reach out.
Sincerely,
Paul Bloom
Senior Research Scholar of Social Entrepreneurship and Marketing
Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship
Duke University – Fuqua School of Business
Suzanne Steffens
CASE Scholar
MBA Student, Class of 2008
Duke University – Fuqua School of Business
Hi Wycliffe,
I run a new foundation, Women Win, which gives financial support to projects that empower women and girls through sport. I really enjoyed reading your entry and have the same questions as the people below. I would very much be interested in your response. Your project sounds both useful and innovative! Looking forward to reading more about it. Warmly,
Astrid Aafjes
Women Win
www.womenwin.org