
Meet the 2024 Young African Climate Changemakers Winners!

H2ENERGIES
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Project description: Our project is a hydrogen-powered cookstove designed to provide clean cooking energy for households in Zimbabwe. Using a combination of water and solar power, it generates hydrogen fuel to replace firewood and charcoal, reducing deforestation, indoor air pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions. This solution is eco-friendly and is especially suited for off-grid, remote communities.

Revolutionizing Food Safety: A portable food safety Sensor
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Project description: Our project focuses on developing a portable food sensor. This device aims to revolutionise food safety by providing quick, reliable testing to detect contaminants and pathogens. Ultimately, it will help consumers make safer choices when it comes to food.

DIAPO
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Project description: DIAPO is a company to address the massive environmental impact of traditional disposable diapers, which can sit in landfills for over 500 years without decomposing. We produce 100% biodegradable diapers made from locally sourced materials, offering a sustainable, eco-friendly alternative that breaks down naturally. Our goal is to reduce waste and give parents a choice that aligns with their values for a healthier planet.

CropFix by eAgro: AI-Driven Climate Resilience for Smallholder Farmers
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Project description: CropFix is a digital agriculture platform that helps smallholder farmers optimize crop health and productivity through AI-powered insights, disease detection, and tailored weekly action plans. By combining satellite imagery, climate data, and machine learning, CropFix offers personalized, location-specific guidance to improve crop outcomes and support sustainable farming practices.

Mobile Agritech Garden
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Project description: Fighting drought with mobile AgriTech gardens that cut water use, recycles unused water and nutrients, slash labour and boost yields, while being inclusive to physically disabled individuals.

A sustainable light for everyone
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Project description: A sustainable light for everyone aims to solve the issue of poor access to energy and unsustainable lighting in Zimbabwe. By providing the Chigubhu Lantern a solar powered light that is made from electronic waste and housed in plastic waste bottles. We also offer sustainable skills in waste management, circular economy, renewable energy and how to make the lights reusing waste.

Konto Khalo!
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Project description: Konto Khalo is a sustainable design venture transforming construction waste into eco-friendly home furnishings, merging raw, natural beauty with refined craftsmanship. Focused on creating a circular economy, it aims to reduce landfill waste while offering stylish, eco-conscious decor solutions.

Eco-Hunt
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Project description: Eco-Hunt is a mobile app that gamifies sustainable actions. Users complete challenges like planting trees or reducing waste to earn points and rewards. The app aims to promote eco-friendly habits and foster a community of like-minded individuals.

Living and Learning Laboratories
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Project description: The Living and Learning Laboratories are innovative, non-traditional learning environments designed to foster meaningful and impactful educational experiences through hands-on, experiential learning. These labs integrate sustainable indigenous practices, applying a heritage-based approach to help restore and celebrate cultural identity. Through the Living and Learning Laboratories, young people are empowered to view themselves not just as recipients of education, but as active citizen scientists equipped to contribute to the betterment of their communities and the world.

Period.
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Project description: Period. aims to make reusable sanitary pads with sustainable, readily available materials, addressing a dual challenge: reducing the environmental impact of conventional Menstrual Management Products (MMPs) on the climate and ending period poverty. By equipping community members in under-resourced areas with the skills to make reusable sanitary pads, Period. empowers individuals to create their own sustainable solutions.