What type of microfinance programme did you create and what are the financial terms?
The incorporation of microfinance as an integral part of our project was based on two very important aspects that we believe is essential to the successful long term sustainability of such a project: • accessing and incorporating the existing community based structures that ensure community ownership • lodging of security deposits for products which provides users the responsibility and a sense of ownership to ensure product safeguarding. The microfinance system is organized by a local NGO. 5) Nokia is one of the partners in your project. What is their role and will the company become part of your replication model? Nokia is a crucial partner for us, as most part of the development within developing countries and especially rural Africa has been the rapid growth and acceptance by the people for technology and communication. As we include mobile phone charging the experience and success of Nokia has meant that we have been able to gain knowledge we would of otherwise not had. Since we a
