45 minutes | Food & Medicine delivery, The last mile of social aid

On October 19th, 2021, RED Social Innovation will host the first of a series of online events dedicated to bridging the gap between the humanitarian and the social entrepreneurship ecosystem, to better serve the communities we are all working for. In partnership with the Stanford Social Innovation Review and the world’s largest social entrepreneurs network Ashoka, RED Social Innovation is launching ’45 minutes’, an event to discover impact-proven solutions to the world’s most challenging issues.

The first event will focus on Food & Medicine Delivery, the last mile of social aid.

Offering essential services such as food or medicine to underprivileged and marginalised people, whether in times of peace, pandemic, disaster or conflict, is a great challenge. The Covid-19 crisis has affected vulnerable households in almost every country, a phenomenon amplified by self-isolating people.

While the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement has helped to safeguard this unprecedented period, social enterprises have also collaborated by being innovative in reaching the “unreached”. What did we learn from the past one year and a half? How can we build upon existing models to provide social services to what is referred to as ‘the last mile’?

Hosted by The French Red Cross and the Spanish Red Cross, RED Social Innovation is a platform available in three languages (English, Spanish and French) shedding light on social innovations developed within the 192 National Societies of the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement but also on social innovations coming from external actors across the world (social enterprises, NGOs, private groups, etc.).