Thanks to significant medical and technological breakthroughs we now have the solutions to save and change the lives of millions of people living in poverty. Products like anti-malaria treatments, clean-burning cook stoves, fortified foods, and solar lamps can dramatically improve the health and wealth of people who survive on just a few dollars a day. But these products do little good if they don’t reach the people who need them most. And as it stands today, roughly 270 million people in Africa still lack access to life’s most essential products. Now more than ever, we need an efficient, scalable, and sustainable system to deliver these life-saving and life-changing products to the world’s poor. This is the gap Living Goods aims to fill.

Living Goods is building a sustainable distribution platform for products designed to fight poverty and disease in the developing world. We are the “Avon of pro-poor products.” We operate networks of independent entrepreneurs who make a modest income going to door-to-door selling affordable and effective solutions designed to improve the health, wealth, and productivity of the world’s poor. We seek nothing less than a disruptive re-invention of rural trade that harnesses the power of micro-entrepreneurs to save the poor money on essential goods and dramatically scale delivery of a wide range of life-saving and life-changing products.

Living Goods, which seeks to be fully self-funded at scale, holds the promise of producing meaningful results on a meaningful scale that is not currently feasible given resource constraints. Populations served by Living Good’s operations, partnerships, and replicators will benefit from lower prices and greater access to a wide range of pro-poor products in health, nutrition, energy, and agriculture. Thousands of empowered women will serve their home villages, own a business, and earn a decent income. And millions of poor families will suffer fewer childhood deaths and enjoy longer, healthier, and more productive lives.