Felek Notebooks
Location
Ethiopia
Programme
East Africa Accelerator
in partnership with Acumen
Site url
www.myfelek.com
Suleiman Shifaw
Creative and Managing Director
Zahara Kauffman
Co founder and Marketing Manager
Producing and selling notebooks, donating supplies to rural schools and supporting education in Ethiopia
Felek Notebooks supports rural, underprivileged school children by providing them with school supplies financed by the profits from the notebook sales. They produce and distribute free exercise books, with the aim to accelerate literacy levels of children in marginalized communities in Ethiopia.
For every leather notebook sale made, they donate one school years' worth of exercise books (eight exercise books) to one child in a marginalized community.
There were gaps in our business that held us back from scaling. The first is the marketing aspect of our business and the second is the partnership required to reach our scaling goals. Now that we have identified both gaps, we are taking the steps to fulfil and reach our scaling goals.