Skoll Entrepreneur(s): Martin Fisher and Nick Moon
Award Year: 2005
Focus Area(s) Addressed: Smallholder Productivity and Food Security
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KickStart-International
DESCRIPTION:
Nick Moon grew up in India and Southeast Asia, and he co-owned a woodworking enterprise in London. He sold his share to take up development work in Africa. Martin Fisher, who earned a Ph.D. in theoretical and applied mechanics, was inspired to find solutions for the developing world during international travel and studies supported by a Fulbright fellowship. They cofounded ApproTEC in Kenya in 1991. Although their technologies include an oil press and brick-making equipment, irrigation pumps are their signature product. The organization changed its name to KickStart in 2005.
IMPACT AS OF JAN. 2013:
- Pumps Sold: 213,830
- Enterprises Created: 139,100
- People Moved out of Poverty: 695,600
- New Profits and Wages Generated Annually: $118,300,000 million
- Dollars earned by farmers for each donor dollar spent ratio: 1:15
- Cost to KickStart to get one family out of poverty forever: $330; Cost per person moved out of poverty: $65
- Learn more: http://www.kickstart.org/what-we-do/impact/
