After successful completion of the first, second, and third editions, Orange Sierra Leone has launched the 4th Edition of the Orange Social Venture Prize-OSVP Project. Applications are now available online.
According to Annie Wonnie Katta, Head of Public Relations for Orange Sierra Leone, the OSVP was established to reward the best technological project with a positive impact and solution to social challenges, primarily in the fields of education, health, agriculture, mobile payment, and sustainable development in Africa and the Middle East.
She furthered that the competition is organized annually in all seventeen Orange affiliates in Orange Middle-East and Africa (OMEA) countries and that the three winners from each of the seventeen countries get an opportunity to compete in a grand international contest where one of the 51 contestants emerges as the winner of a whopping 25,000 Euros.
Katta revealed that they plan to spend Le 150 million on this year’s OSVP competition’s two categories, with the general prize being Le 100 million and the female category, Le 50 million.
Haja Isatu Bah, the owner of Woman for Woman, and proud winner of the 2021 grand prize of Le100,000,000, remarked that besides the money, the human resources available to access by innovators at the OSVP are extraordinary.
Aminata F Kondeh, the 2019 winner, and Mbayoh Turay, the 2020 winner, earned Le10,000,000 and Le20,000,000 respectively to assist their companies as seed monies to flourish.
Mbayoh Turay is now working for Orange as a trainer at our Orange Digital Center, where he is contributing his coding knowledge and mentoring to young aspiring entrepreneurs, while Aminata F Kondeh owns a fish farm.
“Orange came in very handy, I did not only win the money, but I also gained a lot of attention from people throughout the country, and the money as well boosted my business, as I had only had one pond before the competition, but now I have nine fish ponds with over 1000 fish,” Aminata F Kondeh commented
