Arusha — Ubongo, a neighborhood non-profit social enterprise, is that this yr’s winner of the distinguished Rotman Innovation of the Yr Award value $10,000 Canadian {dollars} (roughly Sh20 million).
The enterprise can also be credited with being Africa’s main producer of “children’ edutainment”: academic leisure supplies comparable to video games, movies and reveals.
The prize is introduced yearly by Grand Challenges Canada, a Canadian not-for-profit organisation that invests in native improvements that tackle vital world well being, humanitarian and Indigenous group challenges in Canada and low-resource international locations.
The Rotman Innovation of the Yr Award was created in honour of the late Joseph Rotman, Founding Chair of Grand Challenges Canada, and his household, in recognition of their unfailing assist for world well being innovation.
The Award honours innovation that has had the biggest sustainable enhance in lives saved or lives improved over the previous yr.
Ubongo was recognised for its transformative innovation of providing evidence-based programming that improves developmental outcomes for youngsters, whereas utilizing broadcast know-how to achieve a large breadth of youngsters throughout Sub-Saharan Africa.
