{"id":5523,"date":"2019-06-17T11:03:36","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T10:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/us\/?p=5523"},"modified":"2019-06-21T10:18:47","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T09:18:47","slug":"trutrade-nominated-for-index-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/us\/trutrade-nominated-for-index-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortlisted for innovation award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Self Help Africa social enterprise subsidiary has been shortlisted for a global award for innovation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trading platform TruTrade is amongst the projects and ideas that have been selected for the 2019 finals of the prestigious Index Project Awards, staged in &nbsp;Denmark since 2005, to celebrate and reward designs that improve life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TruTrade will join over 40 finalists at a presentation ceremony in Copenhagen, in 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transfer once they have delivered their goods. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The system has provided transparency and security for small-holder producers, and has allowed them to avoid exploitation by dealers and middlemen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Late last year, TruTrade received an award for \u2018Innovation in Development\u2019 from the Irish NGO association, D\u00f3chas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TruTrade is amongst the short-listed projects in the Index Award \u2018Work\u2019 Category. &nbsp;&nbsp;More information about the awards is available here: <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theindexproject.org\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">www.theindexproject.org<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div 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