The Desert Fridge: Give Electricity-Free Cooling

Summary

This project provides the rural areas of the developing world without electricity a means to refrigerate and preserve their food. Sales are on-demand and liberate young girls to attend school.

What is the issue, problem, or challenge?

The project is addressing poverty and illiteracy. The project first started in Northern Nigeria and has now spread to other parts of the developing world. My solution offers means to refrigeration (which makes the food supply last longer), education, income and good health. My solution is of high impact because it provides a simple solution to an age-old problem.

How will this project solve this problem?

We provide earthenware fridges to help boost farmers incomes. The fridges in turn liberate young girls from hawking so they can go to school and also halt rural-urban drift, keeping farmers around to increase the food supply of developing areas.

Potential Long Term Impact

The Project will provide simple refrigeration facilities to farmers in arid regions of the developing world. The fridges in turn liberate young girls from hawking so they can go to school while also halting rural-urban drift.

Project Message

We all have obligations to mankind at large which are not in consequence to any special voluntary pact, rather they arise from the relations of man to man and the relations of man to God.
- Mohammed Bah Abba, Project Founder

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).