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Malnutrition Matters, in partnership with SolarFlex Inc., is currently developing a passive solar fruit and vegetable dryer that has a flexible design and is inexpensive to manufacture. Drying fruits and vegetables with this system is a cost-effective long-term food storage solution that requires no external electricity to operate, and eliminates the need for chemical preservatives. The ability to dry fruits and vegetables is a crucial element in achieving the long-term food security of many communities, where certain crops may be abundant during harvesting season, but the lack or high cost of canning and refrigeration facilities makes these foods unavailable at other times. The system can work with or without an optional boiler and radiator: this allows for greater flexibility when drying on cloudy days or at night.
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Local people in the underdeveloped world (Africa, Asia, Latin-America)
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Educhilds supports 160 students at the
Junior Tourism High School by paying school fees and providing the school with equipment, computers and funds. It offers the young people of Flores an option to escape from poverty with education.
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Young students from Flores island (Indonesia)
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Enjoy the good work of the following people as well! Feel free to share great initiatives to make the world a better one and we can share is with the bigger world. E-Mail: Gerard Klein Essink |
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Peppereater.org provides enterprising women who manually process chili peppers with more efficient and safer tools, as current methods are labor-intensive and hazardous. |
Women in Ethiopia |
Q Drum: a rolling, easy to transport water drum
Made in South-Africa |
Water is essential to the survival of all forms of life and a clean and accessible supply is a basic need that millions of people around the world do not have. In disadvantaged and rural communities, the burden of fetching water invariably over long distances by cumbersome and far too often, unhygienic means is all too evident. The Q Drum is the simple, durable, effective and user-friendly solution to this problem. A device designed to improve the lives and health of countless people around the world.
The idea of the Q Drum originated in response to the needs of rural people in developing countries who have a problem carrying adequate quantities of potable water from a reliable source. A burden which is generally bestowed on the women and children of each community. In Africa for example, many debilitating back and neck injuries are a result of women carrying heavy loads on their heads.
Rolling water in a cylindrical vessel was the only solution that seemed to make sense and allow for a greater quality of life in this regard.
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Many people in Africa, Asia, Latin-America
Simple and wonderfull eh!! |
Life Straw: a cheap water cleaning device
Made in Kenia |
LifeStraw® and LifeStraw® Family are both point-of-use water interventions – truly unique offerings from Vestergaard Frandsen that address the concern for affordably obtaining safe drinking water at home and outside. These complementary safe water tools have the potential to accelerate progress towards the Millenium Development Goals (MDG) target of providing access to safe drinking water, which would yield health and economic benefits; thus contributing to the achievement of other MDGs like poverty reduction, childhood survival, school attendance, gender equality and environment sustainability.
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