Shona McDonald
Equipment for healthcare workers and people with disability
The lack of protective gear while treating patients is putting the lives of frontline healthcare workers at a high risk of infection. It is also creating fear for people with disabilities, old people and those with comorbidities that need to return to work. Which is why Shonaquip Social Enterprise is manufacturing multiple use Powered Air Purifying Respirators to protect healthcare workers.
Entrepreneurs Name: Shona Mcdonald, Ashoka Fellow
Organization: Shonaquip Social Enterprise (SSE)
Country: South Africa
Website: shonaquip.co.za, uhambofoundation.org.za
Field of action: Frontline Health Response
Needs support to achieve greater impact in: Fundraising, Technical Digital Expertise, Marketing and Communications
Create the post-COVID world.
Help Shona and her team develop their solution!
Shonaquip‘s concrete needs facing Covid-19:
- Marketing and Branding: to grow the brand awareness, online presence, and fundraising activities.
- Digital expertise: to create a relevant CRM system.
- Funding and Financing: to secure unencumbered grants to improve their current cashflow position and enable them to scale PAPR production. The organization needs to secure 260 000 USD in funding over the next 8 months.