An independent Community Health Promoter in Uganda.
Credit: Living Goods

The ‘Avon’ of Rural Health

Inspired by the Avon model, Living Goods operates networks of independent health entrepreneurs who go door-to-door promoting healthy living habits and selling the cheapest, simplest, smartest solutions to the biggest killers of young children: malaria, diarrhea, worms, and respiratory infections. Working in partnership with BRAC and others, Living Goods aims to create a 100% sustainable solution to defeating the diseases of poverty.

With support from The Lemelson Foundation, Living Goods is broadening the assortment of pro-poor products to include money-saving innovations like solar lighting and high-efficiency cookstoves. In the long term Living Goods envisions a disruptive reinvention of rural trade that that cuts out middlemen and leverages scale to deliver a wide range of life-changing products at the lowest possible cost to families who need them most.

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