Africa · Eastern Africa
6 projects · 6 organizations
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.
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.
A Makerere University-born network of low-cost sensors giving African cities real-time, street-level air pollution data.
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 Kampala social enterprise fires clay into ceramic filters so Ugandan households can stop boiling water over smoky charcoal fires.
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.