Young entrepreneurs inspiring change - Sustainable Living Young Entrepreneurs Award

30th January 2015

At London’s historic Guildhall, the EAUC were invited to celebrate the winner of the HRH The Prince of Wales Young Sustainability Entrepreneur Prize and the six talented finalists of the 2014 Unilever Sustainable Living Young Entrepreneurs Awards.

Delivered in partnership with the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, the awards demonstrate how young entrepreneurs have developed viable solutions to challenging global issues. They have lead initiatives in areas such as smallholder farming, micro enterprise, health and climate change.

Daniel Yu, 21, founder of Reliefwatch, was the winner of the HRH The Prince of Wales Young Sustainability Entrepreneur Prize. His initiative is a very simple software for the developing world to give medical clinics access to digitise and manage their inventory records through automated voice calls, with the use of basic mobile phones.

This technology developed by Daniel has made medical monitoring easier and significantly improved healthcare stock levels. In 2014 a partnership with Global Brigades across Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama resulted in 8.9m units of medicine digitised and a 90% reduction in drug expiration.

“This was an inspiring night and a privilege to meet some of the world’s brightest young sustainability entrepreneurs. Ranging from a wonderful tree adoption scheme for budding entrepreneurs, affordable solar lantern financing and mobile phone information and advice to rural farmers, these young people proudly demonstrate the value of taking a new perspective, making new connections and solving old problems in very new ways. We need much more of this.” Iain Patton CEO, EAUC.

For more details on the awards including Daniel Yu's winning project and the innovative work from the other six finalists, please click here.