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Original message from: giannisintltd@yahoo.co.uk




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INNOVATION
FINANCE NEXT-LEVEL SOLUTIONS

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As we think about the last several
decades and what has really moved the needle in energy access. Giannis cannot help but acknowledge the
revolution in Financial services to the energy poor that has now grown into the
multi-billion dollar micro-finance industry-with the likes of Citigroup,
Deutsche Bank, and Morgan Stanley investing in the space, Giannis is confident
the industry has turned an important corner and is on it’s way to reaching
investment class in its own right, attracting a new breed of investors,
deepening Capital Market (CMs), and
creating a pathway to further growth.

Business partnerships fostered so far
has worked on the back haul of Giannis role
in leading by example-Particularly in encouraging multi-stakeholder grand
coalitions partners and client-partners across-the-board amongst a wide range
client base to create institutions and rules that favor innovation.

As an energy venture Capitalist
investor to the energy poor, providing non-traditional fundingÂ* prospective investors stand to reap large economies
of scale building businesses that deliver life-sustaining products and services
to low-income people around Africa.

Â*Each of these businesses relies on two things
to succeed first, capital that they can use to grow; second, breakthrough
innovations in how they operate that will allow them to succeed where others
have failed, or never even tried. As a member of our community, you are someone
that we think will share our excitement to better understand these innovations
and to help spread the word about a different way of tackling energy poverty by
a “marriage of philanthropy and
capitalism� playing an effective role in dissemination and adoption of
lighting innovations.

Pathways Available to
Micro-Finance as they mature, require growth Capital, and need Non-Financial
Services to meet the demands of growth-

Micro-Finance
Banks (MFBs) poised for growth consistently face obstacles such as;

Poor linkages between Micro-Finance Institutions (MFIs) and Commercial Banks (CBs), collateral rather than cash-flow
based lending decisions, and impressive metrics to assess Social Value (SV) as
they serve largely Base of the Economic Pyramid (BOP) customers typically Grassroots Community Based Villagers (GC-BVs).

Energy Micro-entrepreneurs often fill gaps where markets and
public agencies fail to meet the energy needs of energy poor of GC-BVs .They provide
low- cost modern energy efficient clean off-grid solar lighting access
solutions developed to accelerate, and sustain the market for modern off-grid
lighting technologies tailored to the needs of African consumers and a variety
of other products and services where traditional markets fail.

Non-Financial indicators-Metrics of Social returns on
investment such as;

What is the value of increasing literacy rates, reducing
infant mortality in Sub Saharan Africa?

What is the value of providing access to safe drinking
water?

The above basic vocabulary and generally accepted principles
of Social accounting-to enable the Social Sector (SS) to grow and attract
larger flows of Capital beyond pure philanthropy.

An interesting array of Social Investment Intermediaries (SIIs) are now emerging. GIIN (Global Impact Investment Network)
for example, is mobilizing impact investors interested in Social and Financial
returns to develop standards across industries to enable portfolio analyses and
support research promoting an analytical understanding of the industry,
similarly ANDE (Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs) –A global network
of more than 85 investors focused on Small and Growing Businesses (SGBs) in the developing world.

ANDE is committed
to dramatically increase the flow of Capital to SGBs most capable of generating
jobs and economic growth.

The term hybrid investing is starting to emerge thanks to
people like Jed Freundlich, Jim Fruchterman and institutions like the SKOLL Foundation through its commitment
to Social Entrepreneurship, Hybridity in this context refers to an optimization
between Financial and social returns on investment. A dramatic turning point
signally more inclusive Capital Markets (CPs)
over time.

We can one day imagine an era when the NASDAQ and NYSE are
complemented by Social Exchange (SE)
where investors can choose from a range of financial products providing
different combinations of social and forward returns.

The Global Development Marketplace (Global DM) has supported more than 250 entrepreneurs globally with
more than $60 million in seed grants underwriting innovations in fields as
diverse as health, education, agri-business and climate change. These
investments are deliberately early-stage and targeted at crowd-sourcing
innovative solutions providers across the developing world.

With many innovative successful entrepreneurs-designing
innovative business models that go on to replicate, scale-up elsewhere and
sustainably make a huge development impact.

Primary Constraints to growth beyond seed funding

I)Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*
Do they have access to growth funding?

II)Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*
From what sources?

We are on the brink of a
potentially game-changing force in development. There is a growing recognition
that governments acting alone cannot provide public services to all their citizens.
They need partners from Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), Commercial Enterprises (CEs),
and Private Non-Commercial Actors (PN-CAs)
including Social Entrepreneurs to complement, support, and create new business
models for the delivery of Public goods and Services.

While there is no shortage of
actors playing a gap filling role, there are few models that work at scale.

The experience of Giannis is
instructive; Giannis developed a core set of principles and a franchise-able
model to provide amongst others; to

Provide micro-credit to the energy
poor-complemented a wide array of fully forward and backward integrated
mega-Social entrepreneurship Business Development Services (BDS) Provider Firm-Providing energy access services across the
social service supply chain-Giannis serves millions of people in West Africa
poised to expand into continental Africa at impressive speed.

But there are many paths to scale,
there is no one model or one entity that can meet the growing demands of poor
and under-served populations throughout West Africa.

There is an opportunity to capture
the creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship spark of the social
entrepreneurship community and to create the basic financial infrastructure to
support their growth. Because of transformation tools like the off-grid solar
Photo Voltaic (PV) panels, emerging broadband Wireless Access (BWA), Wireless
Mobile telephony, Wireless laptop computers etc., across WEST AFRICA, the
technology infrastructure is increasingly available and enabling.

A KEYLINK MISSING in the current
dynamics is;

Enabling financial intermediaries

Markets

Technical Assistance

Legal Services

Angel Investors

Social Venture Investors

And the other likes…

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Where will the Silicon Valley for
Social entrepreneurship emerge? Perhaps from WEST AFRICA, EAST AFRICA, EAST
ASIA OR SOMEWHERE ELSE?

What is clear is that we cannot
sit on our hands and continue to do business as usual. While considerable gains
have been made in reducing WEST AFRICAN energy poverty over the past five decades,
there are still too few people with access to non-fossil fuel-based, low- cost,
safe, clean and reliable off-grid lighting products with associated basic
energy services.

Time is not on our side and
waiting for the perfect solution to emerge is not the lesson surfacing from the
most successful businesses of our age. Start small, think big, fail fast,
iterate, rapid prototyping, and perhaps most importantly listening to our
users- THE CUSTOMERS- GC-BVs

Innovations in energy access are rarely found in large
multilateral development global development institutions, they are found on
ground-level, in the field, and in partnership with local GC-BVs, CSOs, SGBs,
and BDS Providers.

The surest path to scale is to pay attention to what works,
identify models and principles that work across context, and provide the
resources for organic growth.

That is what fostered Multiple stakeholder grand coalitions
is about .That’s where we hope to shine a bright light. Please follow the web
link to learn more about project host State in West Africa.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abia_State

Location of
Abia State in Nigeria Coordinates: 5°25′N 7°30′E / 5.417°N 7.5°E / 5.417; 7.5Coordinates: 5°25′N 7°30′E / 5.417°N 7.5°E / 5.417; 7.5
CountryÂ*Nigeria Date created 27 August
1991 Capital Umuahia Government
Â*-Â*Governor[1] Theodore
Orji (PPA) Â*-Â*Senators
Eyinnaya Abaribe, Uche Chukwumerije, Nkechi Justina Nwaogu Â*-Â*Representatives List Area
Â*-Â*Total 6,320Â*km2Â*(2,440.2Â*sqÂ*mi) Population
(2006 census)[2]
Â*-Â*Total 2,833,999 Â*-Â*Density 448.4/km2Â*(1,161.4/sqÂ*mi)
GDP (PPP) Â*-Â*Year 2007 Â*-Â*Total
$18.69Â*billion[3]
Â*-Â*Per capita $3,003[3]
Time zone
WAT
(UTC+01) ISO 3166 code
NG-AB
Official language Igbo
Website abiastateonline.com

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INNOVATION FINANCE NEXT-LEVEL SOLUTIONS

Â*

As we think about the last several decades and what has
really moved the needle in energy access. Giannis cannot help but acknowledge
the revolution in Financial services to the energy poor that has now grown into
the multi-billion dollar micro-finance industry-with the likes of Citigroup,
Deutsche Bank, and Morgan Stanley investing in the space, Giannis is confident
the industry has turned an important corner and is on it’s way to reaching
investment class in its own right, attracting a new breed of investors,
deepening Capital Market (CMs), and creating a pathway to further growth.

Business partnerships fostered so far has worked on the back
haul of Giannis role in leading by example-Particularly in encouraging
multi-stakeholder grand coalitions partners and client-partners
across-the-board amongst a wide range client base to create institutions and
rules that favor innovation.

As an energy venture Capitalist investor to the energy poor,
providing non-traditional fundingÂ*
prospective investors stand to reap large economies of scale building
businesses that deliver life-sustaining products and services to low-income
people around Africa.

Â*Each of these
businesses relies on two things to succeed first, capital that they can use to
grow; second, breakthrough innovations in how they operate that will allow them
to succeed where others have failed, or never even tried. As a member of our
community, you are someone that we think will share our excitement to better
understand these innovations and to help spread the word about a different way
of tackling energy poverty by a “marriage of philanthropy and capitalism�
playing an effective role in dissemination and adoption of lighting
innovations.

Pathways Available to Micro-Finance as they mature, require
growth Capital, and need Non-Financial Services to meet the demands of growth-

Micro-Finance Banks (MFBs) poised for growth consistently
face obstacles such as;

Poor linkages between Micro-Finance Institutions (MFIs) and
Commercial Banks (CBs), collateral rather than cash-flow based lending
decisions, and impressive metrics to assess Social Value (SV) as they serve
largely Base of the Economic Pyramid (BOP) customers typically Grassroots
Community Based Villagers (GC-BVs).

Energy Micro-entrepreneurs often fill gaps where markets and
public agencies fail to meet the energy needs of energy poor of GC-BVs .They
provide low- cost modern energy efficient clean off-grid solar lighting access
solutions developed to accelerate, and sustain the market for modern off-grid
lighting technologies tailored to the needs of African consumers and a variety
of other products and services where traditional markets fail.

Non-Financial indicators-Metrics of Social returns on
investment such as;

What is the value of increasing literacy rates, reducing
infant mortality in Sub Saharan Africa?

What is the value of providing access to safe drinking
water?

The above basic vocabulary and generally accepted principles
of Social accounting-to enable the Social Sector (SS) to grow and attract
larger flows of Capital beyond pure philanthropy.

An interesting array of Social Investment Intermediaries
(SIIs) are now emerging. GIIN (Global Impact Investment Network) for example,
is mobilizing impact investors interested in Social and Financial returns to
develop standards across industries to enable portfolio analyses and support
research promoting an analytical understanding of the industry, similarly ANDE
(Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs) –A global network of more than 85
investors focused on Small and Growing Businesses (SGBs) in the developing
world.

ANDE is committed to dramatically increase the flow of
Capital to SGBs most capable of generating jobs and economic growth.

The term hybrid investing is starting to emerge thanks to
people like Jed Freundlich, Jim Fruchterman and institutions like the SKOLL
Foundation through its commitment to Social Entrepreneurship, Hybridity in this
context refers to an optimization between Financial and social returns on
investment. A dramatic turning point signally more inclusive Capital Markets
(CPs) over time.

We can one day imagine an era when the NASDAQ and NYSE are
complemented by Social Exchange (SE) where investors can choose from a range of
financial products providing different combinations of social and forward
returns.

The Global Development Marketplace (Global DM) has supported
more than 250 entrepreneurs globally with more than $60 million in seed grants
underwriting innovations in fields as diverse as health, education,
agri-business and climate change. These investments are deliberately
early-stage and targeted at crowd-sourcing innovative solutions providers
across the developing world.

With many innovative successful entrepreneurs-designing
innovative business models that go on to replicate, scale-up elsewhere and
sustainably make a huge development impact.

Primary Constraints to growth beyond seed funding

I)Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â* Do they
have access to growth funding?

II)Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â* From
what sources?

We are on the brink of a potentially game-changing force in
development. There is a growing recognition that governments acting alone
cannot provide public services to all their citizens. They need partners from Civil
Society Organizations (CSOs), Commercial Enterprises (CEs), and Private
Non-Commercial Actors (PN-CAs) including Social Entrepreneurs to complement,
support, and create new business models for the delivery of Public goods and
Services.

While there is no shortage of actors playing a gap filling
role, there are few models that work at scale.

The experience of Giannis is instructive; Giannis developed
a core set of principles and a franchise-able model to provide amongst others;
to

Provide micro-credit to the energy poor-complemented a wide
array of fully forward and backward integrated mega-Social entrepreneurship
Business Development Services (BDS) Provider Firm-Providing energy access
services across the social service supply chain-Giannis serves millions of
people in West Africa poised to expand into continental Africa at impressive
speed.

But there are many paths to scale, there is no one model or
one entity that can meet the growing demands of poor and under-served
populations throughout West Africa.

There is an opportunity to capture the creativity,
innovation, and entrepreneurship spark of the social entrepreneurship community
and to create the basic financial infrastructure to support their growth.
Because of transformation tools like the off-grid solar Photo Voltaic (PV)
panels, emerging broadband Wireless Access (BWA), Wireless Mobile telephony,
Wireless laptop computers etc., across WEST AFRICA, the technology
infrastructure is increasingly available and enabling.

A KEYLINK MISSING in the current dynamics is;

Enabling financial intermediaries

Markets

Technical Assistance

Legal Services

Angel Investors

Social Venture Investors

And the other likes…

Â*

Where will the Silicon Valley for Social entrepreneurship
emerge? Perhaps from WEST AFRICA, EAST AFRICA, EAST ASIA OR SOMEWHERE ELSE?

What is clear is that we cannot sit on our hands and
continue to do business as usual. While considerable gains have been made in
reducing WEST AFRICAN energy poverty over the past five decades, there are
still too few people with access to non-fossil fuel-based, low- cost, safe,
clean and reliable off-grid lighting products with associated basic energy
services.

Time is not on our side and waiting for the perfect solution
to emerge is not the lesson surfacing from the most successful businesses of
our age. Start small, think big, fail fast, iterate, rapid prototyping, and
perhaps most importantly listening to our users- THE CUSTOMERS- GC-BVs

Innovations in energy access are rarely found in large
multilateral development global development institutions, they are found on
ground-level, in the field, and in partnership with local GC-BVs, CSOs, SGBs,
and BDS Providers.

The surest path to scale is to pay attention to what works,
identify models and principles that work across context, and provide the
resources for organic growth.

That is what fostered Multiple stakeholder grand coalitions
is about .That’s where we hope to shine a bright light. Please follow the web
link to learn more about project host State in West Africa.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abia_State

Location of Abia State in Nigeria Coordinates: 5°25′N 7°30′E / 5.417°N
7.5°ECoordinates: 5°25′N 7°30′E / 5.417°N 7.5°E Country Nigeria Date created 27 August 1991 Capital
Umuahia GovernmentÂ* - Governor[1]
Theodore Orji (PPA)Â* - Senators Eyinnaya
Abaribe, Uche Chukwumerije, Nkechi Justina NwaoguÂ* - Representatives List AreaÂ* - Total 6,320 km2 (2,440.2 sq mi) Population
(2006 census)[2]Â* - Total 2,833,999Â* - Density 448.4/km2 (1,161.4/sq mi) GDP (PPP)Â* - Year 2007Â*
- Total $18.69 billion[3]Â* - Per
capita $3,003[3] Time zone WAT (UTC+01) ISO 3166 code NG-AB Official language
Igbo Website abiastateonline.com

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Giannis International ltd; is a broad basedÂ* Business development service provider with a
wide range client market base of small businesses in Africa involved in the
lighting and Agribusiness sector development food production sustainability. We
believe in your Organizations efforts to build Businesses and industries and
empower entrepreneurs through life transforming Agribusiness activities.

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Â*Â*Â* In view of this we
would like to partner with your organization to

help lift enterprising small Businesses out of the vicious
cycle of energy

poverty, unemployment and economic stagnation plaguing the
African continent.

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N.B: Pls find attached company profile and project
development update

yours sincerely.

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CONTACT

ENGINEER CHRIS OKPECHI

Â*IST VICE PRESIDENT

UMUAHIA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MINES AND AGRICULTURE (UCCIMA)

44 AZIKIWE ROAD, UMUAHIA, ABIA STATE, NIGERIA, WEST AFRICA.
http://uccima.com.ng/

+2348052782824

Email: giannisintltd@yahoo.co.uk

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OKEZIE NNAMDI OGBONNA

GIANNIS INTERNATIONAL LTD RC: 697704

77 MARINE ROAD, APAPA, LAGOS, NIGERIA, WEST AFRICA.

+233248953272

Email: giannisintltd@yahoo.co.uk

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CHARLES CHIJIOKE NWAOZURU

GIANNIS INTERNATIONAL LTD RC: 697704

77 MARINE ROAD, APAPA, LAGOS, NIGERIA, WEST AFRICA.

+2348020784523

Email: giannisintltd@yahoo.co.uk

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Please advice.

MERRY XMASS AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR TO YOUR FAMILY,

Warmest regards,

Okezie

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CONTACT

ENGINEER
CHRIS OKPECHI

Â*IST VICE PRESIDENT

UMUAHIA
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MINES AND AGRICULTURE (UCCIMA)

44 AZIKIWE
ROAD, UMUAHIA, ABIA STATE, NIGERIA, WEST AFRICA. http://uccima.com.ng/

+2348052782824

Email: giannisintltd@yahoo.co.uk

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Â*

OKEZIE
NNAMDI OGBONNA

GIANNIS
INTERNATIONAL LTD RC: 697704

77 MARINE
ROAD, APAPA, LAGOS, NIGERIA, WEST AFRICA.

+233248953272

Email: giannisintltd@yahoo.co.uk

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Â*

Â*

CHARLES
CHIJIOKE NWAOZURU

GIANNIS
INTERNATIONAL LTD RC: 697704

77 MARINE
ROAD, APAPA, LAGOS, NIGERIA, WEST AFRICA.

+2348020784523

Email: giannisintltd@yahoo.co.uk

Â*

Please advice.

MERRY XMASS AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR TO YOUR FAMILY,

Warmest regards,

Okezie