Africa Innovates Magazine - Flipbook - Page 9
FOOD SECURITY
E-COOLING SYSTEMS
CREATED BY WOMEN
BOOST FARM PRODUCTION
IN KENYA
Photo credit: Copyright 2021 - Drop Access
Two Kenyan sisters, Norah and Delphine
Magero, are breaking ground in womenled technology solutions with their
portable solar-powered cold storage box,
Koyo. This motorbike and boat-friendly
Made in Kenya appliance is a hit in
rural Kenya, as it facilitates food storage
and transportation, enabling people,
particularly women, to start businesses.
REACHING
OFF-GRID
COMMUNITIES
WITH CLEAN
AND SMART
CLIMATE TECH
“This is beyond clean-cooking
technology. This is beyond
solar home lamp kits. This is
promoting women to engage in
entrepreneurship.“
Norah Magero; Dolphine Magero,
Co-founders
The sisters run an NGO called Drop
Access that works to transform lives and
livelihoods, by providing clean, affordable
climate-smart technologies to remote
communities that typically don’t have
access to energy or electricity. Founded
in 2018, this women and youth-led outfit
tackles climate impact head-on in rural
and off-grid communities with clean and
climate- smart technologies, like portable
solar- powered cold storage and smallscale solar panels to support farming
irrigation systems, plus storage boxes for
vaccines.
Photo credit: Copyright 2021 - Drop Access
SHOWCASING AFRICAN CLIMATE CHAMPIONS
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