By Our Reporter
Living Goods, a social enterprise founded in Uganda focused on improving health and incomes of the poor, has won the 2016 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship.
The organization together with its Founder Chuck Slaughter were recognized for creating a community of health workers that deliver products for improving health and incomes of underprivileged communities. Living Goods will receive US$ 1.25 million (Ushs 4.25 billion) from the Skoll Foundation to scale their work and increase impact.
The Awards according to the foundation distinguish transformative leaders whose organizations are disrupting the status quo, driving large-scale equilibrium change and are poised to create even greater impact on the world.
Speaking at the ceremony which took place in Oxford, England, Jeff Skoll, Founder and Chairman of the Skoll Foundation said, “The social entrepreneur is driven to challenge injustice. Empowering those who have the greatest stake in building a better life for themselves, their families and their communities, social entrepreneurs instigate change where it is desperately needed. They give voice and agency to the voiceless and marginalized and give us good reason to believe in a radically better future.
