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Carolina Oliveira

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$400total balance
$115charity balance
$0cash balance

$285 in pending offers

Outgoing donations

Scaling AI safety awareness via content creators
$185
PENDING
Mox, a coworking & events space in SF
$100
PENDING
CEEALAR
$300
13 days ago
[Urgent] Top-up funding to present poster at the Tokyo AI Safety Conference
$75
about 1 month ago
11th edition of AI Safety Camp
$25
about 1 month ago
CEEALAR
$275
about 1 month ago

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NeoVoltaic: Saving Newborn Lives with Solar Power in Rural Nigeria
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Carolina Oliveira

9 days ago

Thank you for your swift reply, @Tahir-Mahmood-Saleh! I appreciate it. Follow-up clarifications (the last ones!):

Is NeoVoltaic officially working with Tiny Hearts Technology/acting in behalf of Tiny Hearts Technology? I understand they are also receiving donations to distribute the technology across Nigeria (and Ghana), so a bit more clarity if you're fundraising on behalf of them would be great!

Confusion in numbers
Your grant request states the project aims to "Save the lives of over 30,000 newborns annually by treating jaundice early" -- do you have more clarifications on that?
The reason for my confusion is that for now, according to the sources you've sent
- TinyHearts was started in 2016, so 9 years in activity
- TinyHearts website claims 550+ were saved by their technology
- Their technology is present in 400+ hospitals across Nigeria and Ghana with more than 1000 of their product deployed
Back of envelope:
~63 (precious! very precious!) lives per year. So very distant from what NeoVoltaic seems to be affirming.

NeoVoltaic wants to
- Install the technology that's present in 400+ hospitals in 60 locations
- Train 300 health workers (on using the technology, I assume?)
- Save 30,000 newborns annually -- and make Every $50 save a newborn.

I would really appreciate more clarification on these ambitions and claims!

Post script:
And while we don't know how much funding Tiny Hearts has gotten over their years of activity, let's just guess it's 400000 USD (even though highly unlikely, since cost per unit is 360 USD, so it should be superior?). This would be ~700 USD per life saved according to the website's numbers. Which, by the way, would be insanely impactful and worth checking if there's proof.

Looking forward to understanding this better, Tahir! Thank you so much.

Scaling AI safety awareness via content creators
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Carolina Oliveira

9 days ago

The video by Ego was exceptionally engaging and the hook was fascinating. I noticed the video has more than 300k thumbs up/positive votes. That's a whopping 7,6%. (MrBeast -- who supposedly nailed everything needed for view retention, etc -- has an avg of ~3,4%.)

I look forward to see the results of the awareness come to fruition, and I hope a lot more partnerships like these come to life.

NeoVoltaic: Saving Newborn Lives with Solar Power in Rural Nigeria
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Carolina Oliveira

9 days ago

Hi there!

I would like to ask some clarifying questions (I hope they also help others gain clarity)

  1. Is there a prototype for the solar-powered phototherapy units? Or is this something still in R&D? Which part of the funding goes to R&D, if it's still in this phase?

  2. Who are the people responsible for the development and deployment of the intervention? I couldn't get a lot out of the links posted, there were no teams tagged, etc.

  3. Where do the numbers of estimated impact come from? Are there any pieces of research you can point us to to understand the numbers in depth?

I look forward to understanding more of it and possibly donating. I believe it'll help your project if you share even beyond what I asked, if you have more info. Thank you!!

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