NANOFILTER
Removes 99.999% of contaminants from water. Its reliability and affordability makes it easy accessibility of Safe and Clean water for all.
Prof. Askwar Hilonga (1976) posses 16 years experience of working as a researcher, Lecturer/Senior lecturer, Professor, and a project director both in Tanzania and South Korea.
- Recover (Improve health & economic system resilience), such as: Best protective interventions, especially for vulnerable populations, Avoid/mitigate negative second-order consequences, Integrate true costs of pandemic risk into economic systems
There are a number of reasons why poverty has become an epidemic in Africa. Poverty can be the result of political instability, ethic conflicts, climate change and other man-made causes. But one of the greatest causes of poverty in Africa- which is also the most overlooked, is the lack of access to safe and clean drinking water.
For women and children especially, this crisis is real. It affects every minute of the day.
With unclean water sources often miles from villages, many of girls and women are forced to spend hours each day simply finding and transporting water. The typical container used for water collection in Africa, the jerry can, weighs over 40 pounds when it is completely full. Ad some women carry even more, up to 70 pounds in a barrel carried on the back. That is like carrying a baby hippo., not to mention that contaminated drinking-water is estimated to cause 502 000 diarrhoeal deaths each year.
The UN estimates that sub-Saharan Africa alone loses 40 billion hours per yer collecting water,. that is the same as a whole year's worth of labor by France's entire workforce! This is incredibly valuable time.
Tanzania is one of the least-developed countries in the world, and though the poverty rate is slowly decreasing, a significant amount of its citizens remain impoverished. In 2012, 12 million Tanzanians lived in poverty, about 70 percent of the population. One out of seven of those living in poverty lived in extreme poverty, surviving on the equivalent of less than $1.25 a day. About 34 percent of Tanzanians live below the basic needs poverty line, meaning they lack the minimum resources that people need to be physically healthy including clean water for drinking and sustainable energy sources. There have been small improvements since 2012, but poverty is still an obvious issue.
NANOFILTER is a visionary movement initiated by passionate and enthusiastic pioneers who are responding to a special calling to lift Africa out of poverty through a bottom up approach. It is named after a small village in Karatu, Tanzania, called Gongali, where the community accepted the vision aggressively and promptly put it in ACTION. The model promotes holistic sustainable transformational development in all human aspects based on a BOTTOM UP approach (from individual level, family, village level, District, region, to higher levels).
- Scale: A sustainable project or enterprise working in several contexts, communities or countries that is looking to scale significantly, focusing on increased efficiency
- Biotechnology / Bioengineering
The project has achieved commendable results in various aspects and its sustainability is guaranteed. By Jan 2020, the project is already providing clean and safe water to more than 250,000 beneficiaries through the established 90 water stations and through the filters sold to 85 institutions and 800 households; however much more needs to be done to achieve the target of universal access by 2030. On the other hand, the project created employment to 90 young ladies (age 18 - 30); 20 Gongali staff; 130 other self-employed people / local entrepreneurs, welders, guards, etc. The project is planned to scale-up through the establishment of franchisees in which private owners will be allowed to run the water stations while we provide quality assurance and will receive commission (fee that will be paid by the franchisees). At present there are franchisees in Tanzania, Kenya, Zambia
- Kenya
- Tanzania
- Zambia
- Egypt, Arab Rep.
- Ghana
- Kenya
- Malawi
- South Africa
- Tanzania
- Zambia
We have invented a water filter (Nanofilter) as demonstrated in our website www.gongalimodel.com and on various social media. Together with a Canadian lady (Veronique: https://www.veroniquerun.com/) who has decided to run the whole length of Africa on foot (from Egypt to South Africa), we are now organizing a campaign called Thirst for Life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHL9OCyHODw
With our latest initiative, Thirst for Life, we are aiming to establish 1000 new Nanofilter kiosks across Africa by 2022. To achieve this goal, we will need to raise $1million ($1000 per kiosk).
- Hybrid of for-profit and nonprofit
Currently we are working with:
- Global Sustainable Partnership, USA
- E3Empower, USA
- Hanyang University, South Korea
- NM-AIST, Tanzania
- The Bridge, South Korea
- Prof. Jafvert Chad of Purdue University, USA
- Bio-Nano Consulting, UK
- Prof. Richard Williams of Birmingham University, UK
Our intention is to establish 1,000 new water stations to be rented to local entrepreneurs across Tanzania and beyond. Solve Award will support us to extend our service to the poor communities. This Award will help our Nanofilter brand to stand out in an increasingly difficult and challenging market posed by the imported filters. It will set our company apart from our competitors which are most foreign filters and differentiates the quality from others. This will attract more customers and help support our effort to reach out millions of people. We have expanded our service to Kenya and Zambia where we have built our water kiosks to increase water accessibility to poor communities. Solve award will make us visible to other countries were we are planning to expand to. Our partnership options with One Africa Award will offer the much-coveted opportunity to deliver our water services and directly connect with communities in Africa perfectly tailored to their needs.
HDIF supported the establishment of Nanofilter water stations. At start of our partnership (Sept 2018) there were 60 Stations and by the end of the project in April 2018 there was 90 Stations. The stations are run by trained Partnerships are the vital core of our work, and without them we might not speedily and effectively achieve our mission and vision. We partner with grassroots NGOs, and their communities to catalyze sustainable development; university staff and programs to train the next generation of development professionals; and corporate and foundation partners to expand our financial support and placement activities.
We have partnered with several International and national organizations in order to scale up its reach to the community. Being a new innovation, it became evident that the adoption of Nanofilter and our community approach might have received resistance if it was not involving the government and private sector players like NM-AIST, Regional Health office, Regional Water Department, and local authorities. The establishment of water stations requires permits - which were easily obtained through the project partners who are from the government side. The private partners (Gongali Model and A-Z Textile Mills Ltd) assure the project sustainability.
Operators - 100% women
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