VITALITE

Updated May 20, 2020

VITALITE

John Fay

VITALITE is next generation platform for community distribution and service in Africa, we address lack of access to basic services in low income, underserved communities of Zambia, Senegal and Malawi

VITALITE is the pioneer of pay as you go solar in Zambia, with over 20,000 customers purchasing our solar home system offerings as of January 2019. VITALITE is a community distribution and service company that operationalizes last mile distribution by leveraging mobile money payment platforms to offer consumer finance for customers to access plug and play solar home systems, home appliances and...

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Stage 4: Transition to Scale

VITALITE has developed a solid foundation to build upon to scale across Zambia, Senegal and Malawi.

Registered in Zambia

Focus Areas:

Agriculture, Entrepreneurship, Lighting and 3 MoreSEE ALL

Implemented In:

Zambia

225,000

Lives Impacted to Date

Country Implemented In

30,000

Customers

120

Employees

$5,000,000

Funds Raised to Date

Verified Funding

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Problem

Lack of opportunity and access to basic products and services throughout underserved communities in Africa. There are many products, services and technologies that could improve the situation in underserved communities, but they are not reaching them and being improved upon due to a systematic lack of effective and efficient distribution and more importantly servicing that meets the needs of low income, urban and rural, communities across the developing world.

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Solution

Develop a next generation community distribution platform that makes high quality, in-demand products and services accessible and affordable, so that one's prospects are decided by their initiative and hard work. We aim to create a next generation community distribution and service company that provides opportunities in communities that are not there today.

Target Beneficiaries

Low-Income, energy-poor communities, urban and rural, across Africa that have been historically underserved from accessing opportunities to improve their lives.

Mission and Vision

VITALITE’s mission is to improve lives by making quality products, services and renewable energy accessible and affordable across Africa.
VITALITE makes products and services that are in-demand and out of reach to low-income, energy-poor communities accessible and affordable. Our products, services and renewable energy offerings improve quality of life through better lighting, access to information, communication, entertainment, clean cooking and productivity.

Competitive Advantage

As the pioneer of PAYGO in Zambia, our competitive advantage is a highly efficient and effective, distribution and service infrastructure and networks that is locally inclusive, and is informed by our deep understanding of our customers needs and interests. We support this with a professional, proactive and productive work culture that is focused on delivering high quality products with best in class service.

Planned Goals and Milestones

Adding further high impact products and services to our anchor solar line, including improving communication and information flows by offering GSM enabled tablets, laptops and smartphones. This will greatly improve our ability to interact with and effectively service our clients in hard to reach areas of Africa. We are also developing a market access offering, whereby our rural smallholder customers will be able to sell their produce and grains via a blockchain like traceable platform.

	Funding Goal	3,000,000
	Projected Cumulative Lives Impacted	1,000,000
	New Implemented Countries	Malawi, Senegal
	Recruit	Ongoing
	New Feature	Agri-Solutions to improve farming yields and smallholder incomes.

The Team Behind the Innovation

Our team is diverse in nationality and experience, we believe in a Professional, Proactive and Productive (Triple P) work culture that is demonstrated each and every day by our management team. We believe there is a significant amount of talent in the countries we work, but a systematic lack of opportunity for these high potential people to maximise their talent. We aim to reverse this with our Triple P approach and by creating opportunities for our staff, customers and commission based agents.