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Finalists of the 2025 Community Challenge

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Seven innovative ideas have reached the final stage of the 2025 Community Challenge on ! You’ll find the finalist solutions listed below. We invite you to explore each idea and cast your vote for the one you believe offers the most impactful approach to improving health and wellbeing.

Your vote will help decide the three winners of this year’s challenge—alongside the jury’s decision at the live .

These are the final ideas:

Found 7 results.

  • Safe Homes

    This initiative aims to reduce the impact of vector-borne diseases while strengthening community well-being and supporting more resilient public health systems.

  • Almaterna

    Almaterna is a safe, Spanish-language app connecting postpartum Latin American migrant women. Through peer matching, support circles, and access to professionals, it offers community, guidance, and culturally tailored resources to reduce isolation and improve maternal wellbeing.

  • Khanya Schools Collective

    Harmful sexual behaviours in South Africa schools threaten children’s safety & learning. Our preventative programme teaches learners to spot risks, engages parents/teachers, & builds safer schools. Cost: R25k/school, targeting 50 schools (R1.25m). Proven impact, scalable, urgent.

  • Housing, Memory, Healing

    Casita para la Vida empowers displaced Caribbean families to build healthy homes while healing collective trauma. Our participatory toolkit integrates self-construction with memory recovery, creating resilient communities from the ground up

  • Community Health Pods

    AI-powered, solar Community Health Pods (CHPs) deliver preventive care, mental-health counseling, and telemedicine in underserved areas. Offline, local-language triage + women/youth facilitators cut stigma. Air/water sensors trigger alerts. Scalable, inclusive, SDG-3 impact.

  • ESKAPE kit

    Point-of-care Urinary tract infection detection and antibiotic susceptibility test delivering results in 3-6hrs vs 48hrs, using proprietary media & color-based analysis. No complex equipment needed. 95% sensitivity, 98% specificity, 98.1% PPV, 95.5% NPV and 96.8% accuracy . Cost: 1/10th current price. Targets rural healthcare gaps, reduces AMR.

  • Brain-First NeuroShield

    Brain-First NeuroShield is a brain-first protocol combining Active-AI (ask, critique, recall) with gut–brain care (sleep, exercise, omega-3s), calming practices, and tech/noise boundaries to strengthen learning and long-term cognitive health across schools, families and workplaces.