The Desert Fridge: Give Electricity-Free Cooling

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Summary

This project provides the rural areas of the developing world without electricity a means to refrigerate and preserve their food. Sales are on-demand and liberate young girls to attend school. progress reportread updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

The project is addressing poverty and illiteracy. The project first started in Northern Nigeria and has now spread to other parts of the developing world. My solution offers means to refrigeration (which makes the food supply last longer), education, income and good health. My solution is of high impact because it provides a simple solution to an age-old problem.

Activities

We provide earthenware fridges to help boost farmers incomes. The fridges in turn liberate young girls from hawking so they can go to school and also halt rural-urban drift, keeping farmers around to increase the food supply of developing areas.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $180
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $24,820
Total Funding Goal: $25,000

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

The Project will provide simple refrigeration facilities to farmers in arid regions of the developing world. The fridges in turn liberate young girls from hawking so they can go to school while also halting rural-urban drift.

Project Message

We all have obligations to mankind at large which are not in consequence to any special voluntary pact, rather they arise from the relations of man to man and the relations of man to God.
- Mohammed Bah Abba, Project Founder

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Mohammed Bah Abba,
Director/CEO
#470 Ribadu Road
Gyadi-Gyadi
Kano, Kano State Box 10591
Nigeria
234-80-33-74-17-07
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Project Sponsor

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Organization

Mobah Rural Horizons
470 Ribadu Road
Kano, Kano Box 10591
Nigeria
234-8033741707

Learn more about Mobah Rural Horizons and the project team.



Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Nigeria and can also be found under Economic Development.

For more information about Nigeria, read the Human Development Report on Nigeria or the Wikipedia entry for Nigeria.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on March 10, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 16, 2007.

Latest Update from the Field

Desert Fridge/ Electricity Free Refrigeration

By Mohammed Bah Abba - Managing Director/CEO, March 10, 2008 06:54 PM

The Project has gone full time into the republic of Tchad. We are intending to make available 150,000 pots before June ending. At the moment 11,000 were so far made and distributed from only 3 new factories erected. We de-emphasized the practice of distribution by our organization. Instead we found distributors from areas we are operating in. We sell to them at some discount and they in turn distribute to consumers.

The way the fridge works and its impact remains the same. Click below to see a photo!
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