There is need for all of us to remain creative in order to meet life’s demands and improve the communities in which we live and serve. Like Professor William Bazeyo, Dean Makerere University School of Public Health and RAN Chief of Party/Lab Director has always put it that ‘Be a Contribution’, the RAN team has continued […]

Innovation: Scaling up Safe and Comfortable Bodas (SACOB) Saving Groups This innovation is aimed at bringing together community saving groups to acquire and own motor cycles (Bodas) with a carrier that can be used for routine and emergency transport of patients in rural communities. With this transport platform, the members will have a chance to own a fleet […]

The Yo Mentor App  The Yo Mentor App is a web and mobile phone based app that avails career guidance and mentors services to youth and young entrepreneurs overriding geographical, human interaction and access challenges.  With this app, the user will be able to search for expert mentors, consultants, careers, education information and other professionals and be […]

The RAN Pitch Tuesdays have continued to be rich platforms where creative thinkers’ access support directed towards further developing their innovative ideas, prototypes or projects. It is during these sessions that innovators pitch about their proposed solutions to address particular community challenges and receive real-time feedback to guide further improvement of the solutions. The Innovators […]

The community, students and faculty all look forward to Tuesdays at the ResilientAfrica Network (RAN) because this is when the ‘Pitch Tuesday’ sessions are held. Pitch Tuesday is a weekly event that offers innovators a platform to share their ideas, concepts or projects and receive immediate feedback from the in-house multidisciplinary expert team at RAN. […]

Have you ever taken your clothes to a tailor or even attempted to mend or tailor them yourself? Paul Omare, a mechanical engineering diploma holder, studied the mechanism of sewing machines and discovered that he could manipulate the system to have only a single thread wrought into a stitch. Sewing, also called tailoring or stitching […]