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John Fay: DirectorPast Role: VITALITE GROUP, Co-Founder and Managing Director
We are establishing a multi-faceted distribution chain for wholesale and direct retail household energy products (SVA`s Eco-Line). SVA will focus immediate efforts on establishing sales channels with existing distributors (urban Dakar) and developing a network of commission-based sales agents via local Community-Based Organizations to market and
sell the products. The initial product offering is designed to improve household economics, allowing the end consumer to recoup the funds spent on SVA products within a targeted 60 days from initial purchase via the cost savings associated from using the SVA product versus the current energy consumption outlay.
We are targeting 500,000 low-income households with insufficient access to reliable and safe energy products in rural and peri-urban areas of Senegal and Zambia.
SVA provides affordable alternatives to meet basic energy needs without compromising health or the environment for low income communities in Africa, thereby reducing the exorbitant cost currently required to satisfy basic energy needs. Over the past two years, we have developed an eco-line (i.e. economically advantageous) of energy products that are AAA: Appropriate, Acceptable, and Affordable. In addition to reducing the strain on the household economics, our ecoproducts reduce environmental harm and improve health outcomes as compared to the traditional reliance on primitive biomass to meet energy needs.
