Imagine yourself spending most of your hard working salary every month on phone bills and expensive money transfer fees. Not able to share the important moments in your life like your child’s first steps, your friend’s birthday celebration or your niece’s graduation because times are hard.
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A product assembled by the diaspora for the diaspora. Ewala connects API’s to let you send mobile top-ups to prepaid mobiles starting as low as € 0.40 to amounts that can surpass € 50 depending on the country and operating network you chose.
Thanks to global networks API’s, Ewala is able to access operators as such as Expresso, Tigo, Airtel ,Glo, Vodafone, MTN and 420 more mobile network operators in 130 countries, of which 38 countries are in Africa (including Ghana).(click here to see countries covered by Ewala)
Millions of Africans living around the world spend enormous amounts of money on transferring money to help their families’ and friends’ back home to live and communicate better. The startup Ewala was created to respond to these problems by providing a robust digital tool to give the diaspora the possibility to be better connected with their loved ones.
Why should I send phone credit with Ewala?
The secret behind Ewala is that in most cases it is often less expensive to receive a call from an African mobile operator than having to call from a European mobile phone. If it isn’t the case in your country, the receiver also has the option to convert his top-up into data to use applications like WhatsApp, Viber or any other existing web app services.A top-up can also be sent as a gift which is inexpensive but holds a very high value to the receiver.
Eric from Ghana
Eric from Ghana explains in his own words his experience with Ewala:
“I love Ewala. I always have a 5€ Ewala card in my pocket so that I can send 0.40 € to my friends in Ghana. They receive about 2 cedis and it lets same surf on the web for the whole day. To me, it doesn’t cost much, and we’re very happy to stay connected.We canshare news constantly. It also good because it helps my peers save money.
When I send credit to my mother in Ghana she loves it too. Because now she doesn’t have to travel all the way to town to buy a scratch card. When I top-up her phone she calls me 3 minutes laterand we have a phone call so I don’t spend too. Calling Ghana from Belgium is expensive.My mom doesn’t use the internet that much so Ewala helps alot.”
Another benefit is that in some countries people swap their airtime for money. So if you are in an emergency your airtime can be converted into money.
How does Ewala works?
We’ll guide you througheach of the steps
Insert the phone number of the receiver you want to send the Top-up to.
Make sure that the phone is prepaid.
Choose the amount you want to top-up. Ewalais transparent, it let’s you choose between different amounts available in the country and operator you want to make the transfer to.
You can see exactly how much your receiver gets in local currency.
Send yourself a confirmation by SMS or E-mail. It’s for FREE.
After your payments details is accepted your transaction will be sent immediately!
As far as Ewala goes sending it is a gift that is simple, instant and reliable.
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