A warm welcome from Dr Paper

Welcome on this blog; let us introduce you to our project.

What we had to do was finding a concrete product to add to the One brand, a product with its own “like for like” concept to improve the living conditions of some people in the planet. We all started thinking about education because we thought it was a valuable and important project. First, we wanted to sell pens made of recycled plastic, and we started working on that project, by searching for the prices of the competitors and concrete project ideas.

After looking for prices in a supermarket and finding a project in South Sudan, we realized that maybe our project was not so unique, so we decided to change our product without changing our project (as education appeared as an essential issue). This is how we started thinking about paper. Our idea would be to sell paper, recycled or not, in order to promote education in South Sudan. Indeed, illiteracy rate is very important there: only 15% of women and 25% of men are able to read. This project could be a way to finance teachers and schools and could help people learning how to read. These people would then be able to teach their own children or parents and multiply our impact this way. Moreover, they would also have more access to health information, independence, and could be more qualified. To know is to be able to fight against a problem.

We now have to search market prices related to paper, study what could be the supplying costs of that product, and then we will think of how to use the money left. After that, we will study the design of the product: it has to show the consumer what will be the concrete actions made in South Sudan. We also have to determine whether we want to use recycled paper or not: we are afraid it might discourage the consumer to buy it because of a high price, but we also think deforestation is a major issue that we cannot ignore today.

But no worries about this entire thing, our friend Dr. Paper will guide you all along.