Gosanitize! Go Girls ICT (South Sudan)’s response to Covid 19
South Sudan is a country that depends entirely on imports from its neighboring countries and during the pandemic, products such as hand sanitizers became more expensive as their demand was high and not affordable to the common person in the community. GoGirls inspiration to research and come up with a hand sanitizer called Gosanitize from locally sourced resources within South Sudan was because of the above challenges.
About Go Girls ICTGoGirls ICT Initiative is a Juba, South Sudan based non-profit initiative founded by a group of dedicated young women in the fields of Computer Science, Information Systems, ICT4D Innovation, hacktivism and peace-building.
Ten female local brewers were trained to make highly concentrated alcohol (Ethanol) for use in the hand sanitizer.
To achieve this, GoGirls ICT Initiative team together with chemistry experts, had a peer-to-peer virtual mentorship exchange with Bibliothèque-MboaLab, Cameroon.
But alas! A hurdle.
To enable this project to succeed, they needed to overcome a major hurdle: religious beliefs and the extent...
