Transforming

businesses to impact girls’ lives in Pakistan

How can design thinking help businesses run successful and scalable social
enterprises that deliver impact? You are invited to SPRING Accelerator’s final
event that celebrates the work of Pakistani businesses transforming the lives of
adolescent girls.

Date Thursday, 7 February 2019

Location National Incubation Center, 6 Street 6,
H-9/1, Islamabad
Time 14:00 - 17:30

Since 2016, the SPRING Accelerator has worked with 11 businesses in Pakistan
to develop market-driven products and services to improve the lives of
adolescent girls using a human-centered design approach. Their solutions help
girls learn new skills, earn income, stay healthy and safe across various sectors.

The event will share SPRING’s experience in running a human-centered design

accelerator, which can help other incubator or accelerator programmes to scale
businesses. Attendees may also participate in a design thinking challenge to
create an ideal incubator or accelerator within the Pakistani context, and meet
SPRING-supported Pakistani business. The visiting London-based SPRING team
will share human centered design best practices that have helped 80 businesses
across two continents succeed.

To RSVP, please email Zia Imran (zia@springaccelerator.org).

Meet the Pakistani SPRING
Accelerator businesses
SPRING is an accelerator working with growth-oriented
businesses on innovations that can transform the lives
of adolescent girls aged 10-19 across East Africa and
South Asia. SPRING works with world-class experts to
support these businesses to create innovations with
purpose and commercial potential.
LearnOBots brings affordable science, technology,
engineering and mathematics (STEM) education to
low income schools through a service offering
where schools are provided with all the hardware,
software and animated teaching content for a
small monthly pay as you go fee model.
RIZQ organises multi-billion dollar excess and
charitable food donations with innovative
approaches for collection and distribution to
underserved population including widows, food
insecure families and school children.
EDKASA solves the problem of availability of quality science
and English teachers at low cost schools in small towns and rural
areas. It literally beams in superbly qualified science and English
teachers to school at an affordable monthly cost.

EDKASA solves the problem of availability of

quality science and English teachers at low cost
schools in small towns and rural areas. It literally
beams in superbly qualified science and English
teachers to school at an affordable monthly cost.
EDKASA solves the problem of availability of quality science
and English teachers at low cost schools in small towns and rural
areas. It literally beams in superbly qualified science and English
teachers to school at an affordable monthly cost.

Ejaad Tech provides an affordable way to

demonstrate science experiments with its ‘pop
up learning’ labs, which teachers use in
classrooms to support science theory. It also
provides training videos to science teachers to
improve the quality of education.
SABAQ has developed a fun, curriculum-
aligned digital learning app for K-5 grades,
with flexible subscription options that can be
used on tablets or LED TVs. Tens of thousands
of students across Pakistan are already using
the app.
WonderTree develops augmented reality games
for the therapy and education of children with
special needs. The cognitive and motor exercise
based games are designed in collaboration with
psychologists, therapists and special needs
educators.