[1] Food supply across sub-Saharan Africa is highly unstable due to its unpredictable climate and water reserves.

The two worked closely together on a variety of development interventions, including building rural water systems, constructing schools, and creating job training programs.

[4] Their model was based on a five-step process to develop, launch and promote simple money-making tools that poor entrepreneurs could use to create their own profitable businesses.

Starting in 1998, KickStart began developing a line of manually operated irrigation pumps, designed to enable farmers to easily pull water from a river, pond, or shallow well, and pressurize it through a hose pipe to reach their crops.

[7] The MoneyMaker Max can pressurize water to a total height of 50 feet (15 m), pushing it through a hose pipe as far as 200 metres (660 ft), and can irrigate as much as two acres (0.81 ha) of land.