IDEAAS
Mission
“IDEAAS’ mission is to create, implement and expand sustainable development models, especially in rural areas, for low income populations.”
Programs
•The Electricity Now Project: An original approach to providing electricity to the rural poor. The clients do not buy the solar panels. They pay a monthly electricity bill based on their past expenditure on non-renewable energy, such as kerosene, candles and batteries.
•The Quiron Project: integrates sustainable rural development, income generation, renewable energy, management of native biodiversity, forestry with native species and actions against climate change for carbon credits.
Current Projects on GlobalGiving
Personnel Overview
Fábio Rosa - Executive Director - IDEAAS
Businessman and social entrepreneur. Ashoka fellow, Avina Leader, Schwab Foundation Selected Social Entrepreneur. Experience in solar photovoltaic energy systems – business models, sustainable management and financing, use of energy in rural development, low cost rural electrification. Recipient of international awards in social entrepreneurship, use of technology for the benefit of humanity.
Maria Inez Azevedo Velho - Coordinator, Social Program
Psychologist specialized in social project management, social psychology and marketing, and school psychology. Experience in coordinating and implementing educational and social-economic development projects in rural areas, and in the management of social and community processes in rural electrification and use of energy, group coordination.
Rodrigo Quadros - Coordinator, Sustainable Development Program
Lawyer with experience in rural management, has worked with different environmental issues and in the development and improvement of public polices and legal regulations for non profit organizations and the private sector. Rodrigo has been coordinating IDEAAS’ energy programs in the field for the past four years.
Personnel Statistics
Fábio Rosa,
Executive Director, Agronomical Engineer
Founded in 1997
Employees: 6
Volunteers: 2
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