{"id":9132,"date":"2022-09-22T06:04:15","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T06:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=9132"},"modified":"2022-09-22T06:04:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T06:04:17","slug":"young-entrepreneurs-wins-1m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=9132","title":{"rendered":"Young Entrepreneurs wins 1m"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Kenyan social venture -Eco-Bana,  started by four university students,  has won the prestigious Hult Prize and a cash award of 1 million dollars. The prize is awarded to entrepreneurs who strive to tackle pressing global issues through innovation. The firm makes hygienic sanitary pads from banana fibres. Congratulations &#x1f44f;&#x1f44f;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"667\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/FB_IMG_1663825880658.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/FB_IMG_1663825880658.jpg 667w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/FB_IMG_1663825880658-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 667px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Kenyan social venture -Eco-Bana, started by four university students, has won the prestigious Hult Prize and a cash award of 1 million dollars. The prize is awarded to entrepreneurs who strive to tackle pressing global issues through innovation. The firm makes hygienic sanitary pads from banana fibres. Congratulations &#x1f44f;&#x1f44f;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/FB_IMG_1663825885674.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9135,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9132\/revisions\/9135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}