APOPO’s Life-Saving Rats: Speeding Up Landmine Removal and TB Diagnosis
APOPOs uses trained rats to detect landmines and diagnose tuberculosis, offering a low-cost, efficient solution to these global challenges.
Crisis
Highlight initiatives aiming at providing the skills and resources to build resilient communities, supporting disaster prevention, management, and recovery.
Solutions
We Care SolarCrisisTech as a tool
We Care Solar: Ensuring Safer Births with Solar Energy
We Care Solar empowers communities with innovative clean energy solutions and programs that promote health, education, and economic opportunity. Its award-winning We Care Solar Suitcase® provides reliable solar power to rural health centers, replacing polluting fossil fuel sources and enabling health workers to deliver essential medical services, including emergency obstetric care.
Build Up NepalClimateCrisis
Bricks That Save Lives: Build up Nepal’s Revolution in Sustainable Construction
Build up Nepal is revolutionising house building with a low-carbon and cost-effective alternative to traditional, coal-fired bricks. Nepal is one of the world’s most disaster-prone countries, yet millions still lack safe housing. The social enterprise trains entrepreneurs to produce climate-friendly Compressed Stabilised Earth Bricks (CSEB), or eco-bricks, and build affordable, disaster-resilient homes. Their model uplifts marginalised communities through entrepreneurship, and paves the way for a sustainable construction industry.
French Red CrossCrisis
Living in 2050: An Immersive Experience to Explore Climate Crises
The "Living in 2050" project is an innovative initiative by the French Red Cross aimed at raising public awareness about the climate and social challenges society could face by 2050. Through an immersive and interactive exhibition, participants are invited to envision a future where environmental and migratory crises disrupt daily life in France.
OnekaClimateCrisisTech as a tool
Oneka IceCube: Wave-Powered Sustainable Desalination Solutions
Oneka mechanically turns seawater into freshwater using only renewable energy from ocean waves, with no GHG emissions. Their goal is to provide sustainable and affordable freshwater to remote coastal areas or for emergency relief applications.
