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We got nice news during our roadtrip in the south of Rwanda near the Burundi border. We are a finalist in the Celo Camp 9 Minipay launchpad.

We demoed a possible vision of stablecoin credit for all African entrepreneurs growth projects.

You can vote for our demo during Thursday 25th of July until 5 pm GMT. https://s.zoom.us/m/bPvveCtfb

Such a pleasure for our CEO to present at Africa Connect our new water systems finance solution, which we made available in Rwanda this week.

Wonderful news from Rwanda. Someone has to be the first mover, a pioneer of impossible missions.

Rise to Shine school and we have partnered to bring digital and financial access to teachers and the kids. Have look!

https://www.facebook.com/111582790665889/posts/347552517068914/

Our Smartphones4good phone recycling joined Think Africa Week 2020 to establish new partnerships. Did you know we already have in in using phones leased from our upcycling program?

You might have already noticed that this weekend we will be having an old phone donation day in Kamppi Helsinki📍

Both Friday and Saturday you can find our stand near the metro entrance by Picnic. In the mean time, get a chance to learn more about what happens with the donated phones and how actual women entrepreneurs get to use them in their businesses 👇

How Women Entrepreneurs in Mankon, Cameroon Use the Smartphones to Develop Their Businesses | Aion Bamenda, commonly referred to as Abakwa and Mankon Town, is a city in the Northwest region of Cameroon, and also the capital of the Northwest Region. The province has a population of about 2 million people. Bamenda is located 366 kilometers (227 mi) north-west of the Cameroonian capital, Yaounde. Ba...

As mentioned earlier, we will be sharing more of the success stories with you to get a chance to see the real impact that's happening in the lives of the African women entrepreneurs✨

Winifred runs an electronics and building materials store in Mankon. She deals with all the purchases with the help of her phone. Her business supports her family of 5 consisting of her husband and 3 children. She is proud that her children can go to school.

Be part of the change, learn more and join us here this weekend👇
https://www.facebook.com/events/330222248013140

Do you have an out-of-use smartphone?
Smartphones4good is an initiative that digitalizes women entrepreneurs who might not have access to smartphones yet.
https://smartphones4good.com/donate/

So what can you do?
Grab a phone you'd like to donate, bring it with you to our Kamppi stand and we will totally erase all data on it prior to reuse!👇🏻
https://www.facebook.com/events/330222248013140

A newly published blog post is already up on our website 👇https://aionsigma.com/digital-responses-to-covid-19-smartphones4good-for-african-women/

🌱This time talking about the impact of the pandemic on the business world, in particular African entrepreneurs and the challenges they're facing:

"...We realized the importance of having a smartphone, especially during this pandemic; not only for the ability to access urgent information but also to have access to certain resources such as online sales platforms. These women, in fact, having no other communication systems, found themselves not knowing how to sell their products. With a smartphone they could, as happens now in western countries, take pictures of their products, post them on social networks and continue to sell..."

Digital responses to Covid-19: Smartphones4good for African women | Aion Today we met Anna Georgoudis, Digital Strategy & UX Specialist of the group that won the EUvsVirus hackathon for the support for digitally excluded, in the category launched by the European Commission to face the new challenges posed by Covid-19. The idea was selected from the top thirty and will…

In Zambia Aion Sigma have partnered with Musanga Logistics to provide smartphones for their employees - tractor drivers. They now can access route and traffic information, location tracking and maps as well as instant messaging and productivity support applications.

More success stories with Aion Sigma can be found here👇
https://aionsigma.com/

Surviving the pandemic as written by Irene Gamella 🌿👇
https://aionsigma.com/surviving-a-pandemic-without-the-internet/

"...It is now 2020. Full global pandemic. You work online, you get information online and you can only see the people you love the most online. All this with the same connection as in 2010. Sounds a bit surreal, right? To make things worse: imagine 2020, but without the Internet. This is the reality of 3.6 billion people nowadays..."

The original source: https://www.rewisor.com/sobrevivir-a-una-pandemia-sin-internet/