CAFIID Webinar Featuring Jaza Energy, Brighter Investments and Solar Ear

Moderated by Boris Martin, CEO of Engineers Without Borders Canada, and featuring discussion with: Jeff Schnurr, co-founder and CEO of Jaza Thijs Mathot, founder of Brighter Investment Howard Weinstein, founder of Solar Ear Jaza is working to power the 600,000,000 people living in Africa without electricity. Jaza builds solar hubs that charge batteries customers use to power their homes. The company powers 2400 homes across 40 locations in Tanzania. Solar hubs are run locally by women, and the company's service costs less than what off-grid households are currently spending on Kerosene for lighting. Brighter Investment - In developing countries, the right degree can increase a graduate's income 3-5x. Despite this high ROI, 60 million high potential students graduate from high school every year without a way of paying for a degree. Brighter Investment's solution is simple: 1) we use our algorithm to select the students with the highest potential; 2) Investors support the education of diversified cohorts of students; 3) Mentors help students start a rewarding career that would otherwise have been out of reach; 4) Investors share in the created value in the form of a percentage of the graduates' income. The future is bright! Solar Ear - We sell solar-powered hearing aids, invented, and manufactured by people who are deaf for people with a hearing loss in developing countries. Our goal is to lower hearing loss and the burden of hearing loss to 160 million people in the next 5 years. Our innovative 3-D business model is now taught in universities in Russia, Brazil, USA,, Denmark and Canada. This past month our new mobile hearing health program was exhibited at the Bill and Melinda Gates Discovery Museum and won the UBS Bank Visionary Award, Duke University Health Innovation Award and was selected by Ashoka as one of the 5 programs which would have the greatest social impact. This new program will democratize the hearing aid industry making it affordable and accessible for all