News and EventsJoin SADA and partners in South Africa Providing Families Fuel Efficiency Stoves With your HELP we can...."STOP THE KILLER IN THE KITCHEN!" Help Eliminate the Deadly Effects of Cooking Stove Smoke! Exposure to indoor air pollution has been associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer, nasopharyngeal cancer, tuberculosis and diseases of the eye in adults; low birth weight and, of particular concern, acute lower respiratory infections (ALRI) such as pneumonia. ALRIs are the single leading cause of death amongst children less than 5 years old worldwide. Every year, indoor air pollution is responsible for the death of 1.6 million people - that's one death every 20 seconds (WHO). In developing countries, 90% of the population lack access to sufficient and sustainable supplies of energy, with at least 1.6 billion people without electricity. We need your help! Help us continue our service with Alexandra Township in Johannesburg, SA, giving community leaders and residents training and empowering them together to build over several hundred fuel efficiency stoves using Dr. Winiarski’s low-cost mud, brick and bucket mold award winning methods. Most importantly, this effort is in line with the United Nations Climate Change Conference which aims to strengthen the fight against global warming by cutting carbon emission by 2015. CALL TO ACTION FUNDRAISING PROJECT: $12 dollars Buys a Family a Stove. Africa Students to Build Solar Panels Please help SADA sponsor 3 week Summer Engineering Institute for 36 African Students at Wilberforce College One of South Africa's major challenges in rural and township areas is access to energy. In addition, South Africa’s current unemployment rate is reaching 46% in some Provinces. As much as 90% of the population of developing countries lack access to sufficient and sustainable supplies of energy, with at least 1.6 billion people without electricity. This lack of access to household energy leads to unemployment, poverty, limited education opportunities, environmental degradation, and inhibits economic growth and development. It is neither just nor sustainable that one person in five lacks access to modern electricity. It is not acceptable that three billion people have to rely on wood, coal, charcoal or animal waste for cooking and heating, forms of energy that are highly polluting the world. Household energy is a basic human need, and a precursor to the provision of all essential infrastructure services. SADA working through Wilberforce Community College (WCC) in Evaton, South Africa near Johannesburg is co-sponsoring a 3-week residency Summer Engineering Institute (SEI). The SEI partners are Georgia Institute of Technology (GIT) Engineering Outreach Department, University of Johannesburg (UoJ) Department of Engineering and Dr. Hasan Crockett from Morehouse College. SEI will service students in under-represented areas and will focus the three week residential SEI program offering 36 high school age students, 18 females and 18 males from under-served rural and urban areas of Southern Africa. SEI will teach them to build, install and maintain solar panels in Evaton communities. Working in teams SEI students plan, design, and research the social impact of solar technology on their communities providing sustainability, leadership and entrepreneurial components. Using the worldwide web and IPads donated by GIT, SEI students at Georgia Tech and WCC will be also able to collaboratively work globally in teams to design and prototype solar powered lighting for South African rural homes. Our Fundraising GOAL is to provide full cost and expenses to all 36 students to receive the training and experience from the summer engineering institution program at Wilberforce Community college. CALL TO ACTION PLEASE DONATE: Individual cost per student $1600.00 that includes instructions, room and board, extra-activities, University and Industry tours.
"What a difference bringing energy to our homes means," UNDP Administrator Clark noted. "Something like this [project] brings hope and light and heat to not only homes here but right across this great continent of Africa."
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