Africa · Eastern Africa
8 projects · 8 organizations
Zembo lets Kampala motorcycle-taxi riders swap a flat battery for a full one in seconds, so thousands of boda bodas now run with no tailpipe at all.
Uganda's Rwenzori range holds Africa's last tropical glaciers, and this charity's expeditions are racing to map them in 3D before they disappear entirely within years.
Ripple Effect (formerly Send a Cow) has trained East African smallholder families since 1988 to farm sustainably, restore degraded land and build lasting food security.
A Church of Uganda mission hospital in the Kigezi highlands has run its wards on its own waterfall's hydropower since 1958, and sells the spare electricity to roughly 400 neighbours.
A US nonprofit trains South Sudanese refugees in northern Uganda to replant native trees and build fuel-efficient cookstoves, reversing severe deforestation around their camp.
South Sudanese refugee youth and single mothers in Uganda's Bidibidi settlement turn discarded plastic and aid tarpaulins into waterproof bags and household goods.
A Makerere University-born network of low-cost sensors giving African cities real-time, street-level air pollution data.
A Kampala social enterprise fires clay into ceramic filters so Ugandan households can stop boiling water over smoky charcoal fires.