Empowering Rural Africa Through Collaborative Projects
At Amsha Africa Foundation (AAF), our mission is to make a lasting impact on rural communities in Africa and the Global South. We achieve this by partnering with registered community-based organizations and supporting projects that align with our funding guidelines.
Our rigorous selection process involves inviting vetted communities to submit proposals, which are carefully reviewed by our project teams. To ensure the feasibility and sustainability of each project, our dedicated AAF ground teams visit the project locations for thorough evaluation.
We believe in fostering community ownership and long-term success. That’s why we work hand in hand with the community-based organizations and assist in forming project management committees. These committees consist of community members who oversee the project’s sustainability even after its completion.
To ensure effective project management, AAF maintains close monitoring through regular visits to the project sites. Additionally, we appoint a permanent representative from our organization to actively participate in the community’s project management committee. This representative plays a crucial role in providing periodic reports to AAF, ensuring transparency and accountability.
Through our collaborative approach, we strive to empower communities and create sustainable change in rural Africa. Together, we can make a difference.
Introducing Cutting-Edge Projects
AI-Powered Drones Revolutionize Farm Pest and Disease Control
1.AAF is working with our technology partners to design and deploy low cost drones armed with computer vision and powered by machine learning to collect data points from the farms existing crops.
2.Farmers selected for our initial deployment of these low-costs drones will use artificial intelligence to help grow food by combatting disease and pests, oftentimes made worse by climate change pesticide use, and monocropping.
3.Through machine learning farmers can monitor crops nutrient levels, while also sheltering them from unpredictable and possibly damaging elements.
4.Using low-cost materials to build these drones and opensource software for the Al technology, AAF and our partners belive this will be a realistic solution for many local small-scale farmers unlike the past where Al technology was not accessible due to the cost.
5.The Al algorithm teaches itself to flag something as small as an individual insect long before humans would usually identify the problem.
6.Proof of concept tests are being conducted in the U.S.
7.This project’s initial deployment will benefit & farming communities in Kenya that have been earmarked for deployment in end-2023.
8.Based on the success of the initial deployment we intend to scale this project to other communities and regions.
Mobile Application to connect farmers with cold/dry storage warehouses
Amsha Africa Foundation collaborates with registered community-based organizations in rural Africa. We invite vetted communities to submit proposals aligning with our funding guidelines. Following a thorough review, our ground teams visit project locations to assess implementation sustainability.
Working closely with these organizations, AAF facilitates the formation of project management committees comprising community members. These committees oversee the project’s long-term sustainability upon completion. AAF maintains close monitoring through site visits and appoints a permanent representative within the community’s project management committee, responsible for periodic reporting to AAF.
Drinking Water Harvesting Using A New Portable System
1.AAF is working on 10 parallel projects in 5 countries to provide portable water treatment and solar water heater systems for families in 10 pre-selected communities in East and Central Africa to simplify harvesting drinkable water.
2.The system is made of plastic and requires no batteries, chemicals or spare parts and can last 10+ years.
3.This project will benefit roughly 5,000 individuals within these communities.
4.The challenge today in getting drinkable water is due to lack of an acceptable energy resource People in these communities use natural resources mainly wood charcoal and papyrus in order to heat water for cooking, washing and drinking it is expensive in a long-term perspective and leads to smoke inhalation, deforestation and increased carbon dioxide emissions, this project hopes to change this.
5.We intend to roll this project to other communities in the region based on the success of this project.
Project Success
Eyeglass Distribution
Focus Area:
Heath Focused Project.
Description of project:
Provide eyeglasses at no cost to Africans through distributions in communities with no access to vision care.
Beneficiaries:
1500
Status:
Pilot project complete and now ongoing on a yearly basis
Partners:
Eyes on Africa and Local community organizations in Kenya.
Mwatate Well Project
Focus Area:
Water and Sanitation(WASH) project.
Description of project:
Provision of water wells for Mwatate, Kenya residents.
Beneficiaries:
5000.
Status:
Complete.
Partners:
EABL Foundation.
Trees For Zambia
Focus Area:
Reforestation/community eco-education project.
Description of project:
Reforestation and eco education project.
Beneficiaries:
15000.
Status:
Complete and expanded to other countries in 2017. (Tanzania, Nigeria, Cameroon, Zimbabwe)
Partners:
Local community organizations in Kenya.
Solar Pump Project
Focus Area:
Eco-education Project.
Description of project:
Eco-education projects.
Beneficiaries:
2000.
Status:
Complete.
Partners:
Kenya Government & Local community organizations in Kenya.
Horn of Africa Drought & Famine Relief Project
Focus Area:
Humanitarian.
Description of project:
Ship and distribute 10 tonnes of meals ready to eat water, and relief supples to the affected areas in the horn of Africa area.
Beneficiaries:
50000.
Status:
Complete.
Partners:
Kenya Government & Local community organizations in Kenya.
Child Abuse Prevention
Focus Area:
Humanitarian.
Description of project:
Create an organization of 20 lawyers that offer free legal services to children whose rights have been violated in East Africa These lawyers have successfully provided free legal services on 42 cases and have 120 cases that are being worked on.
Beneficiaries:
175.
Status:
Pilot project complete Project ongoing on recurring basis.
Partners:
Kenya Government & Local community organizations in Kenya.
