Home PRESS & MULTIMEDIA Latest News! Indego Africa wins prestigious SKANDALARIS AWARD!
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Indego Africa wins prestigious SKANDALARIS AWARD! |
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Friday, 18 April 2008 |
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Indego Africa is proud to announce that it recently received the Skandalaris Award for Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation from Washington University in St. Louis. As part of its prestigious SEIC competition, the Skandalaris Center provides seed funding to organizations "using entrepreneurial skills to craft innovative processes, approaches, and solutions to help resolve social issues." The competition values innovation, creativity, collaboration, and the entrepreneurial spirit. The whole Indego Africa teams thanks the Center and other competitors for their hard work and dedication. We are excited for this further validation of our model for social change in African communities! Press release.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 12 June 2008 )
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Indego Africa's wine coasters and agaseke baskets were featured at the 2008 Academy Awards as part of the "Gifting for a Cause" gift bags given to more than 70 celebrities, such as April Scott of CSI: Miami (above). The gift suites are "exclusive and very selective" and Indego Africa's participation reflected their mission of "devis[ing] a gift that was trendsetting, philanthropic, multicultural and of personal interest to the celebrities."
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