On 28 March 2025, Belle and co. was asked to design a Challenge-Driven Health Innovation Bootcamp over 5 days, as part of the Bertha Centre for Social Innovations’s Healthy Futures Programme supported by the Mastercard Foundation.
The bootcamp took place at the Genesis Community Hub in the heart of Vredeburg, and 25 young people participated in the session.
Covering the principles of Design Thinking, the participants were tasked with identifying local problems, work in teams to tackle these issues and also go out into their community to interview and understand the complexity of the issues from multiple perspectives. This movement in between classroom and community spaces created an embodied and varied learning experience for the participants which they had not previously experienced before.
The participants came with open minds and optimism, identifying a range of health-related community challenges to tackle using creativity and innovation and left enthused and eager to do more.
On the final day of their pitches, Prof. Tracey Naledi from the University of Cape Town Health Sciences and her team attended the closing ceremony and presenting certificates to the participants.
The Health Entrepreneurship Bootcamp is funded by Mastercard Foundation in partnership with Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Healthy Futures South Africa and University of Cape Town
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