Plant a tree initiative
We don’t just reward people for for using Labdlo products, we reward the planet by planting a tree every time we buy or sell a device, to offset each phone’s lifetime CO2 emissions. Our goal is to try and make every phone we rehome not just carbon neutral, but carbon positive if we can.
There are also many components made from gold, lithium, tantalum and tin, which damage the planet through mining and land degradation. Lobadlo aims to prevent Pakistan from wasting these electronics, helping customers to save money and saving landfills and our oceans/rivers from being polluted.
Catering to the gender technological asymmetry
After extensive market research and focus grouping it has come to our attention that the women of our country, living in relatively more conservative households, have a great deal of difficulty when it comes to buying and selling their phone. Information asymmetry and lack of independence leaves them relying on the men in the family to take out time from their busy days to take them to the phone store. Costing both fuel and time. At Labadlo, they can feel independent and empowered to make their own decisions about their next mobile phone.
Help the economy
Currently, Pakistan is suffering its worst economic upheaval, since its inception. The overbearing import bill can not be subsided in the near future given the rising global inflation and oil prices. One of our biggest imports at 1.9 billion dollars a year is mobile phones. Therefore, we at Badlo would like to bring the nation more electronically sustainable and recycled phones, soon androids, and then TVs and laptops. So on and so forth.
Upskill tech-based labour
Currently the Pakistani tech scene either has big institutional players that dominate the market or free lancers that work on projects for tech companies in the US. The tech repair and recycling industry is extremely informal, with no accreditations/certifications and a lack of authentic parts training. We intend to start employing many members at each of our centres, teaching them how to recycle tech, while certifying them so that they may have work mobility and work elsewhere if need be.
Empower women in tech
Women are the least employed in the tech industry in Pakistan. This is due to a multitude of reasons ranging from religious fundamentalism not allowing women to work with men, or not seeing it as a way to sustain a household. We at Badlo intend to have women only repair centres where we empower the females of Pakistan to learn a skill set that can provide for them and their children for the rest of their lives with or without male support.
Orphanage and educational drives
We aim to partner with the biggest orphanages and charities in Pakistan to donate phones and explain the importance of recycling and the harmful affects e-waste has on our country. We also intend to have regular visits in high schools across the country to explain to the youth of Pakistan why it is imperative to never waste resources, and that just because something is old and is of no value to you, does not mean it can’t be of great value to someone else.