Eco Life, Mattuga, Uganda
We met with the founding partners, Sylvia and Hajdaj, who work with friends of ours here in the United States.
Eco Life has developed an off-the-grid, solar-powered walk-in cooler at their facility on the north side of Kampala. We were able to tour their facility and understand how the system works. It’s not unusual in developing communities for as much as 75% of harvested crops to be lost due to a lack of cold storage.
The Eco Life system can solve much of that problem. However, the challenge of proving the viability and benefits of the system has been difficult. Currently, there are only four of their systems in operation in the field.
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