Amazi is a nail and beauty salon chain that uses an entrepreneurial approach to fight inequality in South Africa. They train and hire disadvantaged women to work as nail technicians and cater to South Africa’s largely neglected lower- and middle-class customer segment.

Divya Vasant, Founder and CEO Amazi: "Amazi is an ecosystem of opportunities for marginalized women to realize their potential. The mental and emotional rifts ..."

Dharma Life provides rural regions in India with know-how and products that offer high social benefits. Thousands of small local merchants form a network and sell high quality products at affordable prices. Clients thereby learn how they can improve their daily lives.

Balasaheb Gaekwad, Dharma Life Entrepreneur: "What motivates me is that Dharma Life products are for the social well-being of the people ..."

Coffee Circle buys specialty coffee from Ethiopian farmers at justifiably high prices and thereafter directly distributes it via the internet to the European market.

Zeyneba Awo, Coffee farmer from Oolmeehayee: "Our whole life is built on coffee ..."

iCow sends SMS text messages to smallholder farmers in Kenya to convey knowledge about farming practices from cattle breeding to grain production. Farmers can massively increase their earnings and benefit from new perspectives for their daily work.

Su Kahumbu, iCow Founder and CEO: "We are positioning iCow to become the first mobile phone based smallholder farmer agricultural curriculum ..."