Save the Grain’s low-tech solar dryer empowers smallholders to better preserve their crops in order sell when the demand is highest.
Project Category: 9 – Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
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Plastic Fischer – Floating barriers to collect river plastic
Plastic Fischer's open-source technology and innovative financing models empowers local communities to collect and recycle river plastic, which otherwise would have entered the oceans.
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Plasticpreneur – Empowering people to recycle plastic waste
Plasticpreneur develops machines which empower people across the world to turn plastic waste into new valuable products.
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Tip Me – Giving something back to the makers
With Tip Me you can give something back directly to the individual garment workers who made your clothes
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Africa GreenTec – Climate action and peace building
Africa GreenTec provides communities in conflict areas with affordable, clean energy, and creates the conditions to use it productively
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Health4Bees
Health4Bees protects bees from environmental toxins, making use of data collected by the bees themselves.
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Bottle Refund App
The App “Pfandgeben” allows informal bottle collectors to pick up their goods directly at your household, which drastically improves their work conditions.
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Shiriki Mikro – Solar kiosk
Through the Bettervest platform, we are supporting the development of a network of 80 mobile solar kiosks that will provide people in Rwanda with access to WiFi, a mobile phone charging station and all kinds of Internet-based services.