KickStart International
Katherine Georges is a seasoned professional in institutional partnerships and public health, currently serving as Senior Manager at KickStart International since January 2020, where responsibilities include managing the institutional grant portfolio and collaborating with field teams on project deliverables. Previous experience includes roles at the Peace Corps as a Public Health Educator, with representation at the 2017 EPCMD Conference, and roles in mentoring and case management within refugee services. Katherine's early career features analysis of political risks at Frontier Horizons and research for Refugees International. Katherine holds an MSc in International Social and Public Policy from The London School of Economics and Political Science and a Bachelor's Degree in International Relations and Affairs from the University of St Andrews.
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KickStart International
KickStart’s mission is to get millions of people out of poverty quickly, cost effectively and sustainably. KickStart creates opportunities for poor, rural, entrepreneurial farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa to make money and offers a permanent solution to address the deepest root of poverty; lack of income. KickStart designs and mass markets simple, money-making tools that open up business opportunities for poor smallholder farmers. MoneyMaker brand, human powered, irrigation pumps are the most widely used of these products and provide an ideal and environmentally friendly solution that will quickly enable poor farming families to access water and grow crops. These low-cost ($35 and $100 USD) pumps are sold in local retail shops (KickStart works with factories, shippers, distributors and dealers to ensure that our pumps are made widely available and accessible to poor communities and in rural areas), and once purchased, enable farmers to move from rain-fed farming to irrigated agriculture at which point they can grow crops year-round and sell their crops at a profit during the dry season when prices are high. With increased income, they lift themselves out of poverty and improve their quality of life by being able to access: plentiful food, clean water, education for their children and healthcare for their families.