Innovation Africa

The Problem: 

In Africa today, over 600 million rural people live without electricity. Without energy, medical clinics cannot store lifesaving medicines and vaccines, students learn in the dark, and the clean water below ground is inaccessible to those that need it. Water-borne disease is responsible for 80% of deaths in the developing world, killing one child every eight seconds. Every 3.6 seconds, one person dies of starvation.

Our Solution: 

Innovation: Africa is a non-profit organization with a mission to bring Israeli solar, water, and agricultural technologies to rural African villages. Since our establishment in 2008, Innovation: Africa has completed over 800 projects, providing solar energy and light to schools and medical centers and crucially, pumping clean water in remote villages. The organization has impacted over 3.8 million people across 10 African countries including Uganda, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, South Africa, eSwatini, Cameroon, DRC, Ethiopia and Senegal.

What you can do to help: 

Sponsor a Water Project: 

Providing water to an entire village costs $65,000 and is a gift that will immeasurably change the lives of thousands of community members. At the highest level, water will improve the health of the villagers, enable more students to attend school and alleviate pressure on the women who are no longer required to travel significant distances to collect water from contaminated sources and can now use their time more effectively. 

In turn, economic stability begins to take place, as businesses are established, including brick-making and agricultural programs as they are able to grow vegetables and sell the surplus in local markets.  

Solar Project: 

Providing solar energy to a school or medical center costs $20,000 and truly transforms the wellbeing of the students/patients. With solar energy, electricity for lights is installed throughout the school or medical center as well as in the homes of the teachers/nurses. With electricity, the facilities will be able to utilise laptops, essential medical equipment and most centrally, power a vaccine refrigerator, which given the current pandemic is more critical than ever.