Using Technology to Alleviate Poverty
We are a charity based in London although run a variety of projects with global impact. We partner with a mixture of private and public sector organisations to help those who are disadvantaged or in poverty.
Innovation4All
The award will be worth £20,000 to the winner with sums of £10,000 or £5,000 for highly commended runners-up. We are offering this in partnership with the Worshipful Company of Engineers’ registered charity, the Engineers Trust.
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Gayatri Sundar Rajan & INDECO
2023 award winner Gayatri explains how the Innovation4All award has made a difference to bring her and her team’s concept from simulation to experiments.
Gayatri Sundar Rajan - 2023 Innovation4All Grant Winner
I’m extremely grateful and honoured to have received the inaugural Innovation4All grant through the Worshipful Company of Engineers and Tech4 All.
In addition to the generous financial support, the network of engineers and development practitioners is invaluable to further develop and stress test ideas for INDECO, an integrated water and cooling cogeneration system.
INDECO aims to reduce water scarcity, hunger and generate income for smallholding farmers in low to middle income countries.
By improving access to clean water, saving food from wastage with post-harvest refrigeration and enabling greater profits from each harvest.
In my case, the Tech4All support will enable further development and experimental validation of a lab-scale version of the INDECO system. Fingers crossed.
Without the Innovation4All grant and team, I may not have had the support to take this concept from simulations to experiments.
So for their support, I’m extremely grateful.
If you yourself have an idea that can innovatively use technology to tackle one aspect of poverty as well as sustainable change, the Innovation for All grant could be the perfect opportunity to boost your project development.
Please don’t hesitate to reach out to Tech4All or the Worshipful Company of Engineers for further details.
What we do
Since its inception in 1996 Tech4All has led a variety of charitable and social enterprise projects.
Kick-starting the Nairobi 3D-printing ecosystem
TechforTrade (a subsidiary of Tech4All) recently developed the world’s first open source system for recycling plastic bottles into the filament used in 3D printing.
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Organisations we work with, present and past
