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Testing out produce in the cold store in Mattuga,

Testing out produce in the cold store in Mattuga, Central Uganda 🍍🥭These mangoes have been inside SVRG and @ecolifefoodswix19’s flagship solar-powered coldstore for 3 weeks, and they’re still as fresh as ever! Excited to see the impact of our coldstores in reducing post-harvest loss for rural farmers across Uganda 🇺🇬 #SDG7 #ZeroHunger #NetZero #sustainability #community #development #internationaldevelopment #Africa #Tanzania #Kenya #Uganda #energyaccess #energy #solar #SDGs #sustainable #renewableenergy #solarenergy #minigrid #COP26 #innovation #research #engineering

Our latest impact figures from our joint solar inn

Our latest impact figures from our joint solar innovation projects in partnership with OMASI, our Tanzanian partner NGO: 🔋3000 people provided with access to electrical services: 📈8 communities engaged to map development priorities ⚡️7 Solar power systems implemented🔌50 people provided with direct access to electricityWe are working with rural villages in Northern Tanzania to pilot our 'Smart Villages' approach, and demonstrate the difference that a community-centric model can achieve in creating a smart village. Find out more about the range of projects we are currently implementing via our website: https://e4sv.org

📣PROJECT UPDATES📣 Check out the latest pro

📣PROJECT UPDATES📣 Check out the latest progress from our Farmers’ Enterprise Centre (FEC) projects in Uganda 🇺🇬1. Construction has been completed for 3/4 FEC projects in Western and Central Uganda 🔨🧱2. The building of Lukowe (Western Uganda) has been completed ✅ 3. 120 solar panels have been safely delivered to Mbaata via truck, after the rain made the road impassable for lorries ⚠️4. The solar system has been installed in Mbaata, with the panels currently being installed on the roof ☀️🏗 Find out more about the Farmers’ Enterprise centre on our website & stay posted for more exciting updates. #ruraldevelopment #SDGs #sustainabledevelopment #solar #renewableenergy #innovation #equality #minigrid #engineering #innovateUK #Uganda #energyaccess @ecolifefoodswix19

🚺FUND SKILLS FOR WOMEN 🚺 We are looking for

🚺FUND SKILLS FOR WOMEN 🚺We are looking for funding for skills training workshops for young women at our Farmer’s Enterprise Centre (FEC) in Kitula, Central Uganda. Many women in the community haven't been able to finish school and want training in a practical, income-generating skill. Learning tailoring skills opens up the opportunity to generate a form of income, and the FEC offers the facilities for women to start their own businesses. Our training sessions so far have become so popular that women from other villages are coming too! We want to offer training to as many women as possible, but we also need to provide a fair salary for women providing training.❗️Follow the link to our DonorSee project IN OUR BIO❗️#ruraldevelopment #genderequality #UNwomen #ruralwomen #development #SDGs #femaleempowerment #climateresiliance #gender #women #empowerment #SDGs #sustainabledevelopment #solar #renewableenergy #innovation #equality #minigrid #community #solar #energy #sustainable development #SDGs #communityengagement #engineering #engineers #SDG7

We are delighted to have been selected as finalist

We are delighted to have been selected as finalists for the @MilkenInstitute Milken-Motsepe Prize in #AgriTech for our solar powered Farmers' Enterprise Centre in Uganda with @ecolifefoods1 and @KiimaFoods We are looking forward to continue to test this #innovation this year in four communities in Uganda & help rural farmers in🌽#ruraldevelopment #genderequality #UNwomen #ruralwomen #development #SDGs #femaleempowerment #climateresiliance #gender #women #empowerment #SDGs #sustainabledevelopment #solar #renewableenergy #innovation #equality #minigrid #community #solar #energy #sustainable development #SDGs #communityengagement #engineering #engineers #SDG7

💯Electrification for rural women 💯 📸 A p

💯Electrification for rural women 💯📸 A picture of our most recent solar mini-grid user in Kiruru, Northern Tanzania 🇹🇿 She was the first in the village to be connected, and is on the managing committee for the energy system in the community. At Smart Villages, we work to amplify the voices of women and girls in rural communities 📣 We use energy access as a means of promoting gender equality and female empowerment 💪🏿 Our gender-inclusive approach promotes the utility of clean energy as a means of catalysing female entrepreneurship and in-turn access to sustainable income generation♻️We ensure that female community members are central to the decision making process of solar energy projects. Our service value test (SVT) research method is used in the initial planning phase to enable the needs of women to be integrated into the design of our solar energy systems. •••#genderequality #UNwomen #ruralwomen #development #SDGs #femaleempowerment #climateresiliance #gender #women #empowerment #SDGs #sustainabledevelopment #solar #renewableenergy #innovation #equality #minigrid

Shoutout to our partners @Chemolexltd for their in

Shoutout to our partners @Chemolexltd for their innovative approach towards fighting plastic pollution in Nairobi’s rivers💧Check out how they are converting plastic waste into bricks 🧱♻️👉Chemolex is a Nairobi-based environmental start-up, which manages community river clean-up projects, as well as developing plastic capture devices to remove plastic from polluted rivers 🧃🥄🧋They are now recycling waste from the rivers into bricks, which are currently being used to develop community garden projects, as part of their community river rehabilitation scheme🌿🌱🌿Check out their instagram for more updated on their projects in Nairobi 🇰🇪..#innovation #plasticfree #zerowaste #sustainable #environment #climatechange #Nairobi #development #community #waste #wastemanagementsolution

🌿PROJECT UPDATE🌿 Check out the system we in

🌿PROJECT UPDATE🌿Check out the system we installed for our latest Farmer’s Enterprise Centre (FEC) in Kitula, Western Uganda 👁👁These shiny boxes are the key 🔑 to providing solar energy to this community-led agricultural innovation project 🧅🥬🥦A huge thank you to the teams of EcoLife and Kiima Foods, our Ugandan partner organisations, for all of their hard work and engineering skills 🔧👏🏼Next up: ✅ Building the roof ✅ Installing the solar panels✅ Community capacity building We look forward to seeing all of the progress when we next visit in January 🇺🇬#innovation #community #solar #energy #sustainable development #SDGs #communityengagement #engineering #development #renewableenergy #solarsystem #solarnews24

The SVRG and EcoLife team at the new cold store in

The SVRG and EcoLife team at the new cold store in Mattuga, Uganda🌿🌿This week we are installing a new solar powered Farmer’s Enterprise Centre in the community of Kitula, central Uganda 🇺🇬 Stay posted for more exiting updates from our project site 🔧🔧🔧#ruraldevelopment #solar #SDGs #COP26 #innovation #progress #partnership #sustainability #renewables #energy #solarpower #energyaccess #UN #FemaleEmpowerment #engineering #research

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