Program areas at Insaan Group
Impact Footprint - This program expense was used to build Impact Footprint. Impact Footprint is a new digital tool to accelerate the financing of innovative solutions contributing to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Powered by accessible and standardized data, it enables changemakers to showcase their story and impact, and allows philanthropists and impact investors to discover and accelerate the financing of local solutions. Impact Footprint (IF) is a public good and registration is free. It is powered by Insaan Group, a philanthropic entity that invests in solutions to poverty and brings systemic change through innovation. Insaan means human. The platform can be seen here: https://impactfootprint.org/
Health (Access Afya, LLC) - In 2016, Insaan joined a team of aid agencies, foundations and impact entrepreneurs in supporting the growth of Access Afya, a micro-clinic model serving the poorest in the slums of Nairobi by providing patient-centered, low-cost, high quality, outcome-focused decentralized healthcare. Access Afya also works with communities in schools and factories for prevention and treatment. In 2020, in response to the Covid-19 global pandemic, Insaan helped facilitate support on behalf of Access Afya who worked on the frontline promoting awareness and prevention, together with WHO and the Ministry of Health, and launched a telemedicine platform to treat and advise patients online keeping them at home and out of crowded clinics.
Insaan Group Foundation - In 2022 Insaan made catalytic investments in 1. Aakar Innovations, whose revolutionary technology has received a Government of India patent and aims to be a solution provider in menstrual hygiene, and other related products; and 2. Lal10, a wholesale platform for handicraft enterprises in India, driving a maker's revolution by digitizing small and medium rural manufacturers to take their sustainable products to global markets. Insaan is registered in India as Insaan Group Foundation, hence the administrative costs. Its operational impact is currently limited by foreign funds' transfer regulations in India, and the team's limited current capacity to invest in local fundraising there.