Effective Altruism Tech London February Meetup feat. Charity Entrepreneurship
This meetup we are not having a Valentine's day theme (sorry) but something even better: special guests from Charity Entrepreneurship will be sharing their experiences and insights of leveraging tech for high impact charities.
Charity Entrepreneurship is a research and training programme that identifies the most effective charity ideas, recruits aspiring entrepreneurs and, through a two-month Incubation Program, provides them with the training and funding to turn these ideas into high-impact organizations.
We will hear from the founders of several charities that came out of Charity Entrepreneurship on how they leverage tech and what they've learnt along the way.
Justin Graham runs the Taimaka Project, a non-profit innovation accelerator dedicated to identifying and scaling improved approaches to malnutrition treatment. As part of its work, Taimaka runs a malnutrition treatment program in northeastern Nigeria providing life-saving care to thousands of under-five children annually. Justin will be talking about the unique tools Taimaka has built to digitize case management in its treatment program, helping healthcare providers and managers make better clinical decisions and making it far easier for Taimaka to gather data on new treatment techniques as it pilots them.
Marshall Thomas leads HealthLearn, a nonprofit that's on a mission to improve quality of care and save lives with simple, engaging, case-based online training for health workers. HealthLearn currently focuses on primary care-based staff in Nigeria and will soon release courses on newborn care, pandemic preparedness, and hypertension control. Marshall will talk about HealthLearn's custom learning platform that's tailored to health workers' technology and learning needs, and he'll describe upcoming milestones in HealthLearn's work on product, impact evaluation, and business development.
Rachel Abbott is the founder of Kaya Guides, a tech-enabled global mental health charity incubated by Charity Entrepreneurship. Kaya operates a self-help program on WhatsApp to reduce depression at scale among youth in LMICs, beginning in India. In Kaya Guides's 5-8 week program, a WhatsApp chatbot delivers videos in Hindi that teach participants evidence-based techniques to reduce depression and participants have 15-minute weekly calls with a trained supporter. This format is proven to have the same effects as face-to-face psychotherapy at reducing depression. In her talk, Rachel will discuss the organization's work to date, scaling plans, the technology the organization is currently using and how their use of tech is likely to evolve, and how EA folks can get involved in Kaya's work.
Doors from 7pm, vegan pizza and talks plus Q&A from 8pm.