ZAALA CARE HEALTH HUB

For a pregnant woman, Zaala Care health Hub is an interactive platform that enables them to acquire information about maternal health that is both written and in audio form interpreted in their local languages better than word of mouth and pregnancy apps to improve their reproductive health awareness.

According to WHO, Every day, approximately nearly 830 women die from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. 

99% of all maternal deaths occur in developing countries. Maternal mortality is higher in women living in rural areas and among poorer communities. In my community, everyday 3 women die, 5 new born don't make it to their 5th birthday due to the fact that women lack proper information and advice from rightful sources on what to do during pregnancy.

This creates a gap to knowledge about pregnancy thereby follow myths about pregnancy hence endangering their lives and the unborn.

For a pregnant woman, Zaala Care health Hub is an interactive platform that enables them to acquire information about maternal health that is both written and in audio form interpreted in their local languages better than word of mouth and pregnancy apps to improve their reproductive health awareness.

They can shop for their pregnancy essential needs and have them delivered their address.Mothers can open-up mini online shops to show case their products to the community.

It is their online doctor that is accessible anytime of the day to cater for their health needs in case the physical doctors are unreachable.

Our mission is to empower as many women as possible with information about maternal health to improve their reproductive awareness thus reducing maternal mortality rates.

 For every 2 women empowered with information, on average 5 lives are saved through practicing and sharing the knowledge they acquire while using our Zaala Care Health Hub platform. 

We aim at achieving the 3rd goal of the SDG’s- Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages and goal 5 - Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls and to make the world a better place in a fun way.

Track of sign ups in our website database. - 1,000 pregnant women in Uganda sign up to use our platform.

Track sign up in our website database. - 500 vendors sign up to join our online store on the platform.

Track sign up in our website database. - 200 doctors sign up to join our platform

At Zaala Care Health Hub, a pregnant woman gets information about pregnancy to support them through their pregnancy journey interpreted in their local languages and in audio form for ease of use to the receiver.

Zaala Care Health Hub acts as an online doctor in case the user can not access physical doctors at a given moment.

Zaala Care Health Hub enables pregnant women to share their experiences with fellows.

Zaala Care Health Hub is also an online shop where they can shop or sell all their pregnancy essential needs e.g baby essential, maternity essentials.

13,023,114 people in Uganda use the Internet and the numbers are still growing this includes both urban and rural communities. This is 31.3% of the population according to the Uganda Communications Commission. 51% of Uganda's population are women. This shows that 7 million of the 13,023,114 internet user are women; our target market in Uganda now.

In Uganda 2,200,000 are subscribed to Facebook, we estimate half of the number to be women therefore these are potential users of our platform and can access it anytime as they use their Facebook accounts.

Of the 340.8 million internet users in Africa, over 146.6 million of them were on Facebook. This shows that where our product is, users are already there. If a user wants to access ZAALA CARE HEALTH HUB, they open their browses either on phoe or PCs. Go to https://zchhub.com/oxwall/ in their search bars.

When directed to the landing page, they click on sign up; with facebook or by email.

Verify emails by checking their email for an email from aala Care Health Hub, then click on the verification link.

Now they are ready to use the platform's resources as they wish.

We plan to get ways on how we can Save money. This will enable us to acquire some disposable income to cater for the startup in rough times.

We plan to take time to Know our business before we actually expand and launch (this will involve working for someone else doing the same thing as we do).

We plan to Copycat the winners in our business.

We also plan to specialize, even to a single product. This will help us to do enough research we need to make our product successful.

We plan to set a cap on your liability.
Learn computer skills and learn communication skills so as we can do most of our work and reduce on the labor costs.

We need skills in partnership management
The ability to negotiate and maintain a core set of relationships for the benefit of the enterprise.

Doing business planning and marketing
We need access to business planning and marketing skills or training programs this holding us back and we need a hand to meet success.

Funds
Due to lack of enough capital, we have been limited to access only a few things to run our startup for example we have had a challenge in investing in labor in other wards we learn to do most things on our own thereby slowing our success.

https://www.facebook.com/zaalacare/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/zaala-care-523bb9146/

https://twitter.com/ZaalaCare

The idea of wanting to participate in the Solve challenge has been in my eye. Iam a social entrepreneur, public figure of my own and students’ community, and creator of my fortune. Uganda is my native country. 

My country is an independent and young state. It is under developed and it has a lot of problems. By observing and analyzing these problems I am aware that everybody’s well-being depends on a solution of social and
global problems through social innovation. 

I wish to use Solve to reach out to people and help solve the most pressing problems in our society.

 Microsoft- Winsiders

Through the MicrosoftInsiders 4Good fellowship

Andasonia

Train entrepreneurs and gives them skills.

Maranatha Hospital- Bweyogerere.

Partner and create a friendly environment to interact with pregnant mothers.

Uganda Rural Fund- Hope Foundation Academy, Masaka

Visited their partner schools to empower future mothers to be with information about maternal health.

Government-Ug

NGO in health-Aristophanes Uganda

Pregnancy apps/blogs- What to Expect, Baby Center