 This gig is a great gig. We had a weekend With over a hundred entrepreneurs social entrepreneurs pitching one of them Santy from sender athletics brought us a football in soak up colors He's not on stage, but his football is if anyone wants to kick around later It's not Come grab it. So now we have three social entrepreneurs. We picked out from more than the hundred this weekend Epitomizing the quality of the individuals and their projects that we worked with From Friday through to we've got more stuff coming on stage from Friday through to the end of so cap We have Simon Debbie and Jason who will Tell us briefly about their projects Simon over to you so You'll notice that a lot of the entrepreneurs at so cap are talking about changing lives But to me, I think it's glaringly obvious and I hope it is to you as well that there's one life that people are forgetting about I Think you know what I'm talking about of course, it's the life of toilet paper Toilet paper has been behind us every single day of our lives And I think that it's time that we get behind toilet paper That's why I've started a toilet paper company that builds toilets Now I'm not gonna lie to you. This all started because toilets are funny They're so funny that they've got their own genre of human named after them But the reality is that toilets aren't actually that funny for about 2.5 billion people Because 2.5 billion people or 40% of the world don't have access to a clean toilet As a result urine and feces ends up in water that's used to cook clean and wash Causing diarrheal related disease that fills half the hospital beds in the developing world at any point in time We know that there's actually a relatively straightforward solution to this problem We need to build toilets by building a toilet. We can improve Health and well-being life expectancy and even school attendance rates go up For every $1 investment sanitation. We see an $8 increase in economic productivity But the question is where does this $1 come from? This is why I've started a toilet paper company that sells an environmentally friendly product here in the developed world and Uses 50% of its profits to build toilets and improve sanitation in the developing world The product itself is called who gives a crap now to test demand out for this concept in July this year I launched a campaign to pre-sell $50,000 of toilet paper We did it on IndieGoGo, which is a crowdfunding platform that I'm sure you're now all quite familiar with To help things along I agreed to sit on the toilet with a live webcam until we hit our $50,000 target Guy Kawasaki tweeted us, Paul Pollack tweeted us, the campaign went viral We got a lot of supermarket attention and a lot of business-to-business attention as well We hit our target in just 50 hours and proved for the first time in 50 years that toilet paper is exciting So we're now looking to keep momentum up and that's why we're here at Socap We're looking for new businesses to take our products on but also for investors who can help us to keep moving things forward We need to raise $250,000 in order to continue rolling out our retail brand But also to move into the business market with a new product that's called role model So if you can help I'd love to talk to you and together we can save the world from the bottom up Thank you Do we give a crap? I Think we do Debbie Goldie blocks over to you Hi everybody, my name is Debbie Sterling and I'm an engineer I'm starting a company called Goldie blocks, which makes engineering toys for girls So Thank you So why engineering? Well the text message you sent on your cell phone this morning to the car that brought you here to the chair You're sitting in right now All of those things were built by engineers and here's the deal Almost 90% of engineers in the US are male Yet half of our population is female. So if we want to live in a fair world, we need female engineers So what do toys have to do with all of this? Well interestingly enough girls start to lose interest in science as young as age eight and We look at the world through the eyes of an eight-year-old girl. You're inundated with dolls and princesses Meanwhile, all of your boys are playing with Legos and erector sets. They're developing spatial skills They're getting interested in math and science There's a huge gap and I am filling it with Goldie blocks and There's a lot more to it than just taking a boys construction toy and turning it pink So I've spent the last year researching this. How do you get a girl to like a construction toy? And I came up with a big aha Girls have very strong verbal skills. They love reading. They love stories So I started writing stories about a girl engineer named Goldie blocks who loves to build and as girls read along They get to follow her adventures and build along with her with the construction set So two weeks ago. I launched Goldie blocks on Kickstarter today. We reached $200,000 and we have two weeks left to go This is moved beyond a toy at this point. This is a movement. I'm not afraid to state I want Goldie blocks to hit a million dollars on Kickstarter and here's why if we hit a million We're taking this into a movement. We're telling the toy industry. Hey there We want more for our daughters than just princesses. We're telling stores Hey Goldie blocks deserves to sit on the shelves next to Bob the builder and Thomas the train And we're telling our girls you can be anything you want to be when you grow up So here's my ask. I want you all to take out your phones right now Go on to Kickstarter. Look for Goldie blocks. We're on the homepage Go on there and support the mission and send it to your friends There are a lot of powerful people in this room with big networks. We can make this happen. Thank you amazing Jason what have you brought with you? This this is the answer To a question that I will tell you so I'm Jason are in brew and I'm the founder of Rechar and Rechar is a for-profit company that is making Kenya the world's first carbon negative country I believe that if we can help the poorest people in the world to prosper and make the earth richer Then maybe there is hope for all of us. So to do that we're using a technology called biochar Biochar is a charcoal soil amendment. That's made from waste It's the only carbon negative soil amendment in the world So it actually lets you grow more food and take CO2 out of the atmosphere We've developed this device here. This is a biochar kiln It costs less than a bag of fertilizer and it ensures that a farmer will never have to buy fertilizer again With the support of echoing green and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation We've used this tool to help 522 people improve their lives grow up to 200 percent more food and Offset the equivalent of four u.s. Automobiles carbon emissions every year We're on track to sell 300 of these a month with our local team of sales people in Kenya Some of our sales people actually make more in a month selling these kilns than most Kenyans make in a year But that's not fast enough. If we want Kenya and the world to be carbon negative We need to go faster. We're looking to raise $1.1 million to get to 500,000 users in five years with 500,000 users using this device Kenya will actually be carbon negative So that's about two dollars a farmer to be carbon negative and if Kenya can be carbon negative Then the whole world can be carbon negative and I think that's pretty powerful So I need your help to make this dream a reality If this is interesting come talk to me come check out our kiln at the innovation showcase I'll show you how it works and I'll show you what it can do. Thank you Thank you very much Thank you very much We had more than the hundred Social entrepreneurs like these guys we couldn't put them all on stage. They all have deep yellow lanyards That's your it's like a deep yellow gold goldy kind of color So I would really encourage you if you see somebody With a deep yellow lanyard slow down today slow down tomorrow stop ask them what they're doing There's more than a hundred stories of this quality in this conference that we worked with over the weekend before Thank you very much guys