What is the name of your solution?
Developing New Care Economy Among 200 Million Nigerians
Provide a one-line summary of your solution.
We train and deploy caregivers to private homes and hospital across Nigeria, using the web to introduce the new career and help families find carers
What specific problem are you solving?
Jozel Care is leveraging the strength and passion within the vast population of young unemployed persons in Africa's most populous country to develop a new dynamic Care industry in Nigeria. Since inception in 2019, we are pushing to introduce the relatively new Care sector, as new career path for some of the 42% unemployed men and women.
We are also breaking the odds in care support among the population. Most people here never knew they could hire someone to care for their loved ones. The norm had been to quit work or suspend schooling so as to provide such care for family members. We are now helping people to realize the alternative to quitting jobs or suspending schooling.
Through strategic web deployment, people who need helping hands of careers find us even when they aren't searching. So many confess they never new they could get such help. They see our trained and deployed careers as members of their family and the much needed relief.
(Please see more about us at jozelcare.com)
What is your solution?
We utilize the internet to target potential trainees most of whom are either unemployed or have no passion for what the were previously engaged with. We train them on global care practices while practicalizing local realities. We train both virtually and in person. We then engage them on hands-on internship at health facilities, orphanage homes, elderly homes, and homes for the physically and mentally challenged.
We are presently in pursuit to have a new association and holistic association for the Nigeria care industry. Our proposal targets 2 category of memberships: Caregivers on one hand and Care service provider organizations and training centres on the other hand.
We have crafted a robust carer-family-agency relationship that has proven to be successful and mutually beneficial for all involved in this new phenomenon.
We intend to expand our scope and capacity to reach more people across Nigeria and expand to other West African Countries.
Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?
We make people realize they can actually develop new skills as paid caregivers. We help them achieve it through theoretically and practical training. Many unemployed men and women have benefited from this.
We mobilize armies of careers to provide helping hands to families so that they won't have to drop out from school or quit their jobs to care for their loved ones.
How are you and your team well-positioned to deliver this solution?
I am personally a health administrator. I have sort further knowledge including a Public Health course from Harvard university recently.
We mobilize care coordinators across the country and we monitor activities with in-depth reporting system in place.
Which dimension of the Challenge does your solution most closely address?
Establishing care work as a broadly respected profession, including reducing stereotypes around gender roles.
Where our solution team is headquartered or located:
Lagos, NigeriaOur solution's stage of development:
GrowthHow many people does your solution currently serve?
107
Why are you applying to Solve?
To raise funds for scaling in both training of caregivers and care service deployment.
In which of the following areas do you most need partners or support?
Human Capital (e.g. sourcing talent, board development, etc.)
Who is the Team Lead for your solution?
Josephine Udokwu - MD/CEO
What type of organization is your solution team?
For-profit, including B-Corp or similar models
How many people work on your solution team?
Full time - 9; contract staff - 6
How long have you been working on your solution?
3 years
Solution Team
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Josephine Udokwu Jozel Care
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Our Organization
Jozel Care