Cardinal Care Portal
In Nigeria, Africa's most populous country care is administered majorly by family members and some specialised personnel. Nonetheless specialist care is minimal to nonexistent in the country particularly in the rural areas which constitutes about 60% of the country's population of the few personnel in the economy in Nigeria 85% are female because of the cultural gender-related bias in Nigeria that's females are means to handle care as a majorly patriarchal Society this existing prejudiced thought has caused the care profession to be looked down upon and undervalued this is evident in the fact that few universities offer it as training professions because the demand for it is minimal and the perceived economic value is little to nothing and as such gender roles affect the demand for such courses and the willingness of University administrations to put in funding for them this has brought about the use of cheap labour particularly in rural areas where child labour is exploited for care.
The cardinal care portal is a web-based interactive social system that connect key players in the care industry from care providers two educators the portal provides access to information care services training and finance. The portal provide Real-Time up-to-date data to properly guide the decisions a uses care providers and relevant government agencies. Number for us to reach the major Leon disturbed individuals in the rural communities to access training and information the portal will operates and be accessed through web and you USSD platforms. The social interactive components on the portal will enable care workers collaborate and form unions to promotes and guide decisions about themselves.
Portal is targeted at workers in the rural areas of the country who are in the care industry majorly in the informal economy and without access to means of improving their welfare well-being and benefits.
Cardinal Care Innovation team is positioned to offer this solution due to the fact that they are either practitioners or going training in care related professions. Therefore they understand firsthand how the economy runs and have been privileged to interact with those working in this sector.
- Improving access to training & certification, portable benefits, and labor organizations for care workers.
- Prototype
We are applying to solve to access much-needed technical assistance and access to opportunities to further boost the care sector in Nigeria.
- Technology (e.g. software or hardware, web development/design, data analysis, etc.)
The key reason why the cardinal care portal is truly an innovative solution is the fact that it is the first of its kind to unify the key economy in Nigeria and to give it direction through sustainable tech based solution. This automatically we will disrupt current trends in the economy.
The cardinal care portal believes that at full operations in the next five years will have harnessed about 65 to 70% of the economy market and provide Direct or indirect training 4 over 12011 drills and bring into the formal sector over 60,000 care workers in the informal sector. The portal will also be able to help stipulate current and future wedges for individuals with the help of the Union which is expected so how full coverage of the entire country.
The solution is aligned and is going to be measured with the United Nations sustainable development goals 3, 4, 8 and 17
Nigerians are becoming highly technologically savvy and care is becoming more needed as life expectancy has improved due to better health care services and the population of Nigeria shows that 17 to 12% of our population are elderly people above 65 years of age and 44% of that population are children below the ages of 15 the need for innovation in the care economy has never been more pertinent as of this time as the country thrives on innovation and its people follow new trends and try to adapt better ways to make their lives better.
The core technology powering the card in a bottle is a software, mixed with SMS technology.
- A new business model or process that relies on technology to be successful
- Software and Mobile Applications
- 3. Good Health and Well-being
- 4. Quality Education
- 8. Decent Work and Economic Growth
- 10. Reduced Inequalities
- 17. Partnerships for the Goals
- Nigeria
- Ghana
- Nigeria
- Not registered as any organization
The cardinal care innovation team is composed of at least one female from a rural area in Nigeria and undergraduates from diverse tribes.

- Individual consumers or stakeholders (B2C)
Through crowd funding, grants and service fees from users of the platform.
We have been able to crowd fund $500 used to conduct research and facilitate contact with possible partners.
