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Jul 2, 2005

"The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs." --Vance Havne

Kickstart

Dedicated to the proposition that low-tech hardware could transform the lives of Kenya's farmers by making their work profitable, Martin Fisher and Nick Moon developed a revolutionary small pressure pump for irrigation called the MoneyMaker. The invention allows subsistence farmers to irrigate significantly more land, and begin growing cash crops. There are now more than 24,000 pumps in operation, producing $30 million a year in profits to farmers.