The MRANTI Impact Challenge Accelerator (MICA) recently connected key stakeholders and advanced the development of Malaysian solutions from prototypes into pilot projects, in collaboration with the United Nations International Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
Through this 12-month program comprising funding, support, guidance and services amounting to RM1.2 million, more than a dozen Malaysian social innovators were given the opportunity to prototype solutions specifically tailored to benefit children, with a focus on critical areas such as climate change, disaster management, and malnutrition.
From these, five Malaysian social innovators have been selected to accelerate their solutions with UNICEF. These include:
- SustaiNation Malaysia: a Green School Concept offers innovative book series, learning toolkits and locally-made upcycling machineries, to help rural communities especially children, to improve their recycling/upcycling facilities at source.
- EXPLORIA: a comprehensive and systematic approach to educate children on the importance of mangrove protection in mitigating climate change, using a combination of a Hands-on kit, E-learning portal and field trips.
- Mobiva: enables faster emergency response by sharing crowd-sourced data with first responders and rescue agencies, mapping hazards and vulnerabilities. This enables decision-makers with critical information and helps ensure aid is quickly delivered to those who need it most, including children.
- FixApa by Kemaih: a comprehensive digital platform designed to provide a centralised hub for all childcare-related services.
- Beebag: a social enterprise working on addressing plastic pollution by encouraging shoppers to reuse their plastics more often through the use of gamification and modern technology.
Each of these social innovators receives RM150,000 to pilot and scale their transformative solutions over the next six months with an aim to reshape the future of Malaysian children with coaching from PROFICEO.
