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Solution overview

More about your solution

Select one of the below:

New technology

Describe what makes your solution innovative.

Venus 2.0, a bag enabling children to study despite lack of electricity or harsh, is a new technology. It is an e-textiles made possible because of industrial symbiosis. Venus 2.0 uses recycled materials , ,renewable energy (solar energy) and special features such as comfort, storage facilities, where girls can put their pads,braille and smooth writable surfaces.

It is designed mainly to help students who do are disadvantaged to study. It is made of recycled products that are not to be sold but leased or donated.

There is also a need of clothing brands to rate worker conditions on their care labels (care labels because we care) to discourage buying of garments and textiles with poor working conditions particularly for women.

Why do you expect your solution to address the problem?

Venus 2.0 is a bag that proves goods can be created and consumed but still be renewable, recyclable , and reusable because its parts are recycled.

It helps children who have challenges when it comes to access proper education or study to study. Children without classrooms to learn in day and night and give children a virtue of hope.

Venus 2.0 will prove a circular economy is possible and for all.

Care labels (because we care) should rate (with stars) their working conditions to make garment and textiles business accountable for the way they treat their workers. Ecosystem benefit all whether living or non living and a circular economy does to.

Select the key characteristics of the population your solution serves.

Women & Girls
Children and Adolescents
Rural Residents
Very Poor/Poor
Low-Income
Middle-Income
Minorities/Previously Excluded Populations
Refugees/Internally Displaced Persons
Persons with Disabilities

In which countries do you currently operate?

Zambia

In which countries will you be operating within the next year?

Zambia

What are your goals within the next year and within the next five years?

When I, Ngoza was a semi-sugo (11th grader) in 2017 I had a mid-term coming up and a day before power was down due to load shedding. I was in panic what was i to do? It was 21 hours all the shops near my home were closed and the candle i had was about 5 cm and i had to make the best out of the little I had.

At that moment I was one of the billion people without electricity. It affected my grades and self esteem when it came to school work. In Zambia, load shedding is the norm and it affects a lot of learners.

I want learners to not to feel the way i felt and not to be disadvantaged. Zambia performs poorly when it comes to school, with girls dropping out of school as early as grade 4 we do not another reason for developing countries like Zambia to have poor educational results. It costs a developing countries its GDP when thus happens.

I hope hope in the next coming years will stay in school, study despite challenges, equal opportunity to all despite challenges and increase in academic results.

I am a woman and being oppressed is not a good feeling , seeing another women struggling is even worse. With the rated care labels I want them to be safe and have fair working conditions .A care label could help one women or child out we should try because we care.

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