illions of
people in
rural Africa
life more than a day of
traveling away from the
next doctor – with
little to no access to
basic health. BISA “Ask
Your Doctor Online”
gives remote people in
Africa access to health.
In G4I, BISA will
expand the well-
established service
from Ghana into
Senegal with a new
French version of
BISA’s app.
Company
BISA M-Health
Location
Ghana
G4I Pilot
Senegal
Scalability
Africa
NGO Partner
YOU Foundation
Meet your doctor online service app
Goal: Disrupt the way how people in remote areas of Africa gain 1st access to doctors and hospitals.
Bayer
Foundations
Alumni 2018
T
he 2018 Bayer Foundations Alumni day this summer in Berlin included
the inspiring Grants4Impact (G4I) fnal. This is the energiser programme
from Bayer Foundations, which grants one million euros to social impact
pioneers transforming the worlds of health and nutrition. Thimo V. Schmitt-Lord,
CEO at Bayer Foundations, opened the pitches session with stories and insight
on the global roadshow he led with his team to identify innovative solutions to the
world’s most pressing problems.
“If you want to be a start-up billionaire - you have to solve a billion people’s problem,” Thimo said.
From 11 fnalists, the winners were: COOLAR, iBreastExam, SANISOLAR , BISA and SafetyNet.
They will now be ‘connected to knowledge, power and funding in order to grow and transform good
ideas into global game-changer solutions’ as part of a 24-month programme.
The 5 G4I winners
have the collective
power to solve
challenges that over
2 billion people on
the planet are facing!
Alumni 2018