Swedfund
Swedfund International AB offers risk capital and know-how for investments in Central and Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America.
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No. Funds: 54, Currency: Swedish Kronor, AUM: $35717307,
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The biggest cosmetics goldmine in West Africa
Executive Summary
PalmAfric is a concept that places demand on services of women, living on less that 1:00CAD a day, who make black soap in rural Southwest Nigeria. The idea is to repackage locally made black soaps and sell to high end consumers in West Africa. The concept rapidly increases required black soap production by 4 to 6 times per woman against current production. We will gurantee the purchase of all the black soap production over 2 years at a fixed price. Therefore the income of selected women living on less that 1:00CAD per day increases to average 5:00CAD per day over the 2 year period. At the end we will consider renewing the agreement.
Starting with 20 women, it will immediately impact the lives of about 140 household members. There is average of 7 members per household. *Currently, estimated 60% of Nigerians live below the poverty level. Most of them are illiterate, between the ages of 25 and 54years old, the prime of their lives. *(World fact book, 2006)
The benefits of this concept outside empowering women financially are that we will be able to create scholarship funding for the post-secondary school education of eligible girl-children from rural areas. The value of our contribution will be 2% of our net profit estimated to be at least 2,000:00CAD per year. *Post secondary school graduation eliminates 20% of the probability that she and her future generation will live in poverty. It also allows us to create a profitable enterprise that accumulates 100,000:00CAD cash in Year One. * (Poverty Eradication Strategy Paper, Dec 2005)
PalmAfrica will focus on innovation, commerce and financially empowering women.
This concept can work anywhere in West Africa as long as there is palm plantations and women who make local soaps. Our core regions of interest are Nigeria, Ghana and Togo for soap productions. Our potential markets are West Africa, South Africa and Europe. However, our pilot project will be in Southwest Nigeria.
PalmAfric will create several kinds of cosmetics for all kinds of people in the future. However, our focus at this time is a liquid soap that is 100% organic and appeals to *17 million urbane women between the ages of 15 to 64 year old living in Nigeria.*(www.onlinenigeria.com/population)
In the first year we plan to sell 125,000 tubes of the soap. This translates to 5250 core consumers, mostly on campuses, buying 2 tubes of our soap per month. We need a supply of 25,000 kg of raw soap to meet productions. For these 20 women, this is a turnover of 40,000:00 CAD per annum, approximately 27,500:00CAD in net profit and 115:00 CAD per month from 20:00CAD for each of them.
It is my projection that we can produce and sell raw 1 million tubes of soaps per year within the next 5 years. This means requirement of 200,000 kg of raw black soap, a 220,000CAD net profit for about 160 women, enhancing the lives of more than 1000 household members. At that time, we can also increase the number of girl-children we sponsor and increase our annual cash flow to 500,000:00CAD per annum.
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I dont need capital as such but what I require is an institution like your yours that can surrogate my innovative ideas and have them implemented by mainstream deposit taking banks. This would then turn out to be partnership where we own the ideas as intellectual property and the banks become our implementing agency.
The idea is in the BID network and more information can be available if required. Kindly partner with me once your experts have interrogated the viability of the concept and approach financial investors as a team. PLEASE HELP!!!
HENRIQUEZ
Honduras es un pais que esta siendo deforestado rapidamente en su diversidad de bosques, es un pais muy pintoresco y hay mucho trabajo por hacer . el gobierno ha desarrollado varios proyectos de reforestacion con muy poco exito. deseo mucho colaborar a mi pais, necesito financiamiento y apoyo
Consultant Engineer
ELECTRICITY SUPPLY OF RURAL AREA WITH SINGLE WIRE EARTH RETURN SYSTEM (SWER)
In order to reduce poverty and unemployment among the local residents, the purpose of my plan is to provide rural area of Mongolia with continuous reliable and less cost electricity. Mongolia has one of least population density in the world- on 1 sq.km area live 1,6 person.
Administratively Mongolia is divided into 21 aimags (province) and aimags consist of in average 12- 18 suhms (county). In total 329 sums are sparsely located from each other. Average distance between suhms inside of aimag is 60- 100 km.
As an administrative, cultural and social center- educational utilities are centralized in suhm centers.
With the crash of socialist system in the country and transferring into of new market economy system in 1990-s, suhm centers with diesel generators were unable to cover the expense for the diesel fuel, which of cost was continuously increased and these sum centers are kept practically without electricity. This situation made impossible to provide with electricity even for lightning of school, hospital and dormitory for children, to keep normal living and business conditions. With this situation unemployment and poverty is sharply increase and as of today, annual average income per capita in suhms is 244 EURO.
Each year Government of Mongolia plans for example in 2005 8,2 million EURO, in 2006 19 million EURO only for construction of new transmission line in rural area. This year this amount reaches 43 million.
In spite of these measures, many suhm centers and residential areas are remaining not interconnected to the centralized electricity grid and residents and public entities have access only 4-5 hours per day to the electricity, provided by local diesel power plant.
As of today, because of high diesel fuel cost, residents of the suhm centers, not interconnected to the centralized grid, pay in average 0.065 EURO/kWH for 4-6 hours per day during the winter time, comparing with 0.038 EURO/kWH electricity tariff for 24 hours in area where is centralized electricity grid.
Due to long distance between suhms and low load, construction of traditional 3 phase, 3 wire transmission grid in more than 100 suhms is considered mostly ineffective and repayment of investment period is too long 20- 30 years.
New for us technology- Single Wire Earth Return system will reduce investment cost of the electricity transmission grid for rural area of Mongolia.
Following to our investigation, 10- 35 kV SWER line is able to save at least 1,5 – 2 times less investment cost rather than traditional 3 wire 3 phase line.
We’ve made choice on this system because:
• Electricity distribution method using only one conductor with the return path through earth
• Successfully used as we are informed, in New Zealand, Australia, Alaska in USA, Canada, North Sweden India, Brazil, South Africa and South East Asian countries for sparsely populated areas
• Correctly applied, SWER provides an economic supply method for rural electrification and positively affects to poverty reduction
Advantages of this system are:
• Cost Reduction at least 1,5 – 2 times rather than traditional 3 phase line
• One conductor, less pole top equipment
• Long, hilltop to hilltop spans
• Fewer switching and protection devices
• Design Simplicity
• Speed of Construction
• Reduced Maintenance costs
• Reduced bushfire hazard – avoid conductor clashing
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Please advice me as how to go about to have funds for investing in a small moving business.
financial support
am planning to start a small business of selling second hand vehicles but i need financial assistance so as to be able to start the business i wont mind even starting out one car .
best regards
doug
A&P Consulting
We are very motivated and pleased to present to you our organization, A&P Consulting. A&P Consulting is an organization that is focused on developing the private sector in Cameroon and the rest of the central African states by providing consulting services to businesses in the following areas:
• Capital sourcing for business start-ups and expanding businesses
• Investment evaluation and appraisal
• Business plan and project writing, implementation and monitoring
• Implementation of computerized financial management systems
• General business consultancy including studies aimed at attracting foreign investors to have access into the Cameroon and CEMAC market.
We are currently at the stage where we are focusing on developing our portfolio of funding & venture capital institutions to partner with in terms of recommending projects for funding and making these funds available to the projects that meet the funding criteria.
This partnership if concluded is going to play a strategic role in the way we deploy our consulting services, especially our CAPITAL SOURCING SERVICE that we offer to clients whose projects we have studied and edited for funding.
We have our full business plan. We will be ready to provide you with additional information concerning our services and how your institution can provide a vital link in our production chain and help bring projects into realization.
Best regards,
Andoseh Ugwaa
CEO A & P Consulting
Email:andoseha@yahoo.com
Tel: +237 77453277
Equater Fuelwood Energy Saving
Am an entreprenuer based in Kenya and dealing with Renewable energy saving concepts combined with environmental conservation.We make,deliver,doemostrate and install these stoves to our customers and also train.My business plan was placed in the financiers page and will be featured in the bidchallenge week market place on 29thsept06.Due to my input,was also invited to attend the meso finance seminar held today at d.o.b foundation at Netherlands.Am requesting financial assistance/loan from your organisation.Please advice on possible positive assisstance and criteria used in the same.
Best regards.
Josphat Kariuki.