GREEN GIRLS ORGANISATION

The Elevate Prize Funding will be used to impact and work across 6 additional African countries: Nigeria, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Niger, South Sudan, and Mali.

We intend to provide solar and biogas installations to 1 million African rural women across 10 African countries in 5 years who will have access to light and clean cooking fuel.

Lack of access to clean and affordable energy for lighting and cooking is the sad reality for more than 70% of women and girls across African rural communities and the Green Girls Organisation is on a mission to solve this problem.

We intend to increase the literacy levels of girls in African rural communities thanks to the solar installations, create 5000 eco-friendly jobs from the sale of organic fertilizer which is an agricultural bi-product obtained from a biodigester.

In September 2014 while as a young Program Officer in charge of Gender and Human Rights, I developed projects which advocated against early girl child marriage, female genital mutilation, and illiteracy faced by the average African girl child who was refused an education due to her gender.

On this faithful day, while sharing didactic materials to the Muslim girls in Kano Nigeria a Muslim state, I was confronted with a real root cause problem which was the lack of electricity for these girls to be able to study at night and clean cooking fuel for cooking which non-toxic and non-pollutant.

With my team at the time, I developed the Green Girls Project with a vision to make available electricity for every rural household so that girls could study at night and biogas through the construction of biodigesters that would use waste to provide clean cooking fuel.

Since 2015 the Green Girls Organisation has been providing electricity via solar installations and clean cooking fuel via biogas installations to women and girls in African rural communities.

Our ultimate goal for the future is to stop the use of firewood for cooking and bush lamps for lighting which are highly pollutant and toxic.

Lack of access to clean and affordable energy for women and girls across African rural communities for cooking and lighting is the problem we are solving which affects more than 70% of this target group on the African continent from our research.

Factors that contribute to this problem are:

1- Lack of accessibility to these rural communities due to bad roads.

2- Lack of power supply from the national grid that would provide electricity.

3- High rate of poverty in these rural communities due to lack of jobs and skills that do not create income generation.

The Green Girls Organisation is addressing this problem by training women and girls on how to generate energy from the sun and waste and thereby equip these women with income-generating skills that are sustainable and break the poverty cycle.

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Our work is unique and disruptive in that we are the only NGO on the African continent that uses AI to fight against the lack of access to clean and affordable energy and by so doing empower women and girls in African rural communities in the process.

We developed an innovative algorithm (MNKB92 Model) that identifies the specific clean energy needs of a rural community permitting us to develop and provide the specific clean energy installations and training modules to train these women and girls.

Since 2015 the Green Girls Organisation has impacted 3 African countries: Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and DRC Congo.

4500 girls and 700 women have been trained across 48 African rural communities with 48 Green Girls Clubs created in each of these rural communities impacted which serves as a platform for the women and girls who took part in the initial training to serve as peer educators and facilitators to the women and girls who were not opportune to take part in the training.

3060 biogas installations providing clean cooking fuel have been installed and 1500 solar installations providing electricity have been carried out.

3000 sustainable eco-friendly jobs have been created from the sale of organic fertilizer and assembled solar lamps.

Data collection and the use of AI are the main tools we use to achieve our impact which is very effective because we end up providing the specific clean energy needs of the community for these rural women and girls.