Enter Global Environmental Conservation Contest and Win £1 Million Prize
By Abdi Ali
Published November 10, 2023
Earthshot Prize invites innovators, entrepreneurs, community leaders and climate change activists to submit their entries to the 2024 edition of the competition.
The Earthshot Prize, a global environmental prize to discover, accelerate, and scale ground-breaking solutions to repair and regenerate the planet, is awarded annually to five winners, all of who receive a £1 million prize grant to scale their projects.
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MultiChoice, the official African broadcast partner and member of The Earthshot Prize Global Alliance, has issued a call for entries from African organisations who are doing scalable and impactful work aimed at repairing and regenerating the planet to enter into any of the five categories of the Earthshot Prize: Protect and Restore Nature, Clean our Air, Revive our Oceans, Build a Waste-Free World and Fix our Climate.
Submissions are to be entered by November 30, 2023.
Some 108 entries from Africa were received in 2022 out of which two have made it to the final stage of the 2023 leg.
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Since its inception, five African organisations have been selected as finalists namely, Reeddi Capsules (from Nigeria), Pole Pole Foundation (from the Democratic Republic of Congo), ROAM , Sanergy and Mukuru Clean Stoves (from Kenya). In 2022 Mukuru Clean Stoves won the Clean Our Air Earthshot. Mukuru Clean Stoves is a start-up providing cleaner-burning stoves to women in Kenya to reduce unhealthy indoor pollution and provide a safer way to cook.
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In addition to the £1 million prize, winners also benefit from a global network of professional and technical support to scale their work. This includes access to resources across numerous professions and sectors including manufacturing, retail, supply chains, legal advice, digital technology, business strategy and government relations via The Earthshot Prize Global Alliance.
For more information on contact:
Litlhare.Moteetee@Multichoice.co.za or Taylor.patterson@earthshotprize.org
