Africa

Tech4Good winners providing life-changing power and water in Africa We are very excited that the Tech4Good Awards are really going global! We’re also really excited to be working with Comic Relief to … Read more

30,000 people die each week in Sub-Saharan Africa from drinking unsafe water, despite billions of pounds having gone into installing over 800,000 hand pumps. This is largely due to lack of … Read more

To date, 1 million children in Kenya regularly do not attend school, for a variety of reasons. To address this problem, Camara has developed a training approach that focuses on providing … Read more

In Kenya, there are over 5 million smallholder farmers who often have little prior knowledge of farming techniques, and live on unproductive land. The majority of these farms are run … Read more

As technology changes, so do the reasons why it’s so important. Over the past year we have seen a new fight for both medical teams and technology experts across the world … Read more

Computer Aid International is a UK registered charity based in North London which refurbishes unwanted IT equipment in the UK and delivers it for reuse in schools, hospitals and charities … Read more

At least 280 million people worldwide are visually impaired, 39 million of these people are blind and yet 80% of blindness is avoidable. Peek is a smart-phone based portable eye … Read more

Mobile phones at the bottom of the economic pyramid markets are becoming very valuable because they give people access to opportunities. Subsistence farming adds very little value to an economy … Read more

Child’s i Foundation finds imaginative solutions to the problem of child abandonment in Uganda and has successfully developed a blend of online and offline fundraising. At its heart, the work … Read more

ActionAid uses mobile phones to provide timely information to the community in Isiolo, a remote part of Kenya badly affected by the drought. ActionAid delivers monthly food supplies to over … Read more