In Europe and Africa, startups and innovators are working on new ideas to limit the effects of climate change. Due to their different starting points, they may have different priorities, but increased exchange between innovators from Africa and Europe offers particular creative potential for both sides.
The Co-Creation Lab in Nairobi brings together 12 (post-)docs and master's students from four universities in Uganda, Kenya and Germany to further develop their CleanTech innovations together in workshops.
This is not about the one-sided transfer of knowledge, but about an equal exchange of ideas and solutions for the respective region. The goal: to learn from other local contexts for your own start-up idea.
Country: Kenya
With the KiDiCo project we are responding to a need in Kairiri, Kenya. KiDiCo stands for “Kitchen, Dining and Conference Hall” and describes the construction of a building that will be used as a kitchen and dining room for the kindergarten and as a meeting room for the community. Due to a lack of food, children often sit hungry in class, but a regular and balanced diet is a basic requirement for healthy development. The construction of the new kitchen and dining room will make an important contribution to providing for the children and thus reducing educational inequalities. In the future, the building will also serve as a conference hall for the local community and thus provide space for democratic and adult-education processes in the community.
Overall goal of the proposed project:
Preventing the causes of flight for the Kenyan population on Lake Victoria and creating better future prospects for particularly disadvantaged young people.
Project goal:
300 orphans grow up in a safe and supportive environment at the Sheryl's Orphans Children Home (SOCH) and each achieve their class goals.
Sub-goal:
The SOCH orphanage, with its attached kindergarten and elementary school, has sufficient solar power and drinking water for the 300 children.
Activities:
Purchase and installation of a solar system on the roof of the existing building. Purchase and installation of two water tanks for collecting rainwater.
Fair trade with producers in economically disadvantaged countries around the world is our contribution to local Agenda 21. We are committed to a fairer world and are working to overcome the North-South divide through fair trade, various campaigns and information events.
Sales of fair trade goodsInformation about the products and the producersImplementation of Agenda 21 in the area of fair tradeSupport of development projects - South Horr in northern Kenya - Catalongo in Mexico - Partnership between “Nuestra Senora de la Esperanza” Lima / Peru and St. Peter and Paul Bühl
TERRE DES FEMMES is a non-profit human rights organization that dedicates its work to oppressed, persecuted and other discriminatory women. The association advocates for the rights of women, regardless of their denominational, political, ethnic and national affiliation. Through its own publications, communications to the media, information stands, circulars and events, TDF aims to raise awareness, educate and inform the general public.
The company aims to promote and support technical development cooperation between industrialized countries on the one hand and developing countries and Eastern Europe on the other. As part of its corporate purpose, it takes on orders for the clarification, advice and implementation of projects, particularly in the areas of vocational training, crafts, industrial and small business promotion and ecology.
Promoting development cooperation
Transfer of business know-how.Providing business and management know-how in emerging countries in a targeted manner.Initiating, advising and supporting projects in emerging and developing countries.Promoting independent development (social businesses, social entrepreneurship, capacity building.
Funding of model projects and mediation of partnerships to combat poverty through community-based (“basic income”) support for those in need. Poverty does not stop at national borders. Minimum social security is a human right, the safeguarding of which must increasingly be seen as a task for the global community as a whole. The concrete “social assistance financing” of people from different countries should serve as an example of this global social responsibility.
