Care economy activities and business model

About the organization:
Asteroid is a company focused on new technologies that seek to develop innovative projects and products to provide a better quality of life to people with disabilities or in vulnerable health situations in Argentina. Asteroid’s main product is Hablalo, a mobile app that is helping +75.000 disabled people to communicate better. They offer a text-to-speech translator and speech-to-text translator with no need of wifi connection.

Activities in the care economy:
Provision of affordable services that provide care & domestic work (e.g. affordable daycare services in rural areas), Awareness raising on the care economy through marketing, information campaigns & programmes that raise awareness & increase motivation

Stage of growth: Small scale roll-out/Early stage

Type of services: Care for persons with special needs (disabled / differently abled persons)

Number of customers (2020): Not available

Number of customers (2019): Not available

Number of customers (2018): Not available

Financials

Profitability status: Not available

Revenue USD (2020): Not available

Revenue USD (2019): Not available

Revenue USD (2018): Not available

Pathways to impact

Challenge addressed: Lack of affordable solutions to reduce amount of time spent on care and domestic work (Reduce)

Pathway to impact – 4 Rs: Reduce

Populations affected: Persons with special needs or with illnesses

Number of people served (2020): Not available

Number of people served (2019): Not available

Number of people served (2018): Not available