CSR support for development charity offering tech solutions to empower people out of poverty
Let there be light says ground-breaking development charity that is using pioneering technology and common sense to bring self-empowerment to developing communities.
Practical Action that celebrates the role of technology to bring sustainable development to the third world has been highlighting a number of innovations recently including its Score Stove.
The charity has also joined up with Bosch and Siemens Home Appliances Group (BSH) to battle poverty in a development context.
Practical Action has launched a smoke hoods digital tool that uses design and entrepeneurial input to create new bespoke solutions for ridding cooking smoke from basic stoves in the third world.
Such simple open stoves are used by millions of people in developing countries but create health risks.
The charity's website provides a tool to find sustainable smoke hood designs appropriate for the unique local conditions that are required, thereby reducing polluting solid fuel smoke.
The tool provides a technical brief for individuals or organisations intending to implement projects to reduce smoke air pollution, including entrepreneurs who are keen to start a local smoke hood business, and for those who want to make their own smoke hood, for instance.
Sam Shiroff, CSR Director at BSH, has backed the project and says: "Stimulating economic growth is one of the surest ways of reducing poverty in developing countries."
At Xperedon we also seek to empower organisations via our own innovative charity giving technology.
We offer a range of online solutions for charities seeking to develop more fundraising success, as well as businessess seeking to develop their corporate giving input and partner with organisations like Practical Action.
As well as technology, charities are also innovating in other areas, including those involved in micro-finance and other programmes that promote sustainable business development in a development context.
Likewise you can find out more examples of Practical Action's technological innovations that are making a difference.
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