GlobeDry

At the beginning of October, 36 solar-powered food dryers arrived in Zugdidi, Georgia. ☀️🍊🍎🍐 As soon as the dryers were unpacked, they were ready for use – powered by solar energy, the fans needed for food drying immediately started working, eagerly awaiting Georgia's delicious fruits. ☺️ “Recently, Georgia has been in the media mostly due to its politically complex situation, but climate change hasn't disappeared either. Stronger winds, higher temperatures, and new plant diseases directly affect the livelihoods of the Georgian people,” said Mondo's environmental programme leader, Egle Küngas. Thirty-six food dryers are being given to women in the Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region who, for one reason or another, have fewer opportunities. Mondo’s partner in Georgia, Association Merkuri, supports single parents, internally displaced people, and victims of domestic violence. In this project, we are supporting women with fewer opportunities, many of whom are engaged in agriculture. 🍎 Before receiving the food dryers, women from the Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region completed training on how to use the dryers. The training was conducted by Ingrid and Margus Kullerkupp, representatives of the company GlobeDry, which made the dryers, and Mondo's environmental programme leader, Egle Küngas. The food dryers caused much excitement during the training. Over the two training days, the women learned how to use the dryers, handle food, and gained new knowledge about environmental issues and climate change. The day ended with an entrepreneurship training session, as the newly dried fruits can later be sold, providing an additional source of income. 🍊 Ten of the food dryers were equipped with USB phone chargers to stay connected during power outages. There were several power outages during the training sessions, but fortunately, the dryers are completely autonomous, so work did not stop. In the future, Association Merkuri will be responsible for the food dryers in Georgia. Now, we quite literally await the fruitful results of the project! 👉 Read more about the project on Mondo’s website: https://lnkd.in/dgxEjEZP 👉 The installation of food dryers in Georgia is part of Mondo’s environmental programme, which you can support by purchasing a charity gift: https://lnkd.in/d6HxK63m Project donor: Environmental Investment Centre #climatechange #climatejustice

Here is a post for those who find excitement in how different things are made and how the work is done in factories! 👇⚙️ This year, Mondo will deliver 108 food dryers to its partner communities in Georgia, Kenya and Uganda, supporting their livelihoods and reducing food waste. Food is a vital part of our every day, but for millions of people, the daily meal is not tacit. Nearly 820 million people faced food insecurity at severe levels in 2020. This means that food is not available to them on a stable daily basis. Droughts, showers and other changes in weather patterns due to climate change will further increase the number of people suffering from food insecurity. Together with Estonian GlobeDry and the Environmental Investment Centre 3 Mondo’s partner communities are provided with solar-powered food dryers. One such dryer saves about 1500 kg of food per year from waste, which in turn prevents 5172 kg of CO2  equivalent from being released into the air. In addition, it provides small farmers with an opportunity to quickly and hygienically store and sell their fruits to support their income. Thanks to this, the food security of the communities increases, food waste decreases, as well as CO2  emissions, and the sources of income for the communities are replenished. All of this contributes to climate change mitigation and adaptation. Egle Küngas, the project manager, and Hanna-Marta Lunge, head of Mondo’s activities in Kenya, visited the factory in Estonia, Pärnumaa, to see how the dryers are made. Each food dryer, from fans to solar panels and wheels, is assembled with great care and love by assembler Sulev. His previous experience in working with different machines and devices is a great value here, because wires, fans, solar panels and much more have to fit together perfectly – a good puzzle! And this for 108 times. “It was very exciting to see the completion of the dryers. All the necessary pieces and parts are present in the factory, now we just have to wait for the final completion of the dryers and then send them to Georgia, Kenya and Uganda with the necessary accessories.” said project manager Egle Küngas. Hanna-Marta Lunge sees the potential in dryers not only for drying fruits and vegetables, but also for better preservation of seeds. If the seeds are not properly dried and stored, they can, for example, go moldy, and this can be a big risk for small farming families. You can read more about the project here: https://lnkd.in/dgxEjEZP Mondo’s project “Increasing food security and reducing food waste with solar food dryers in Uganda, Kenya, and Georgia” is financed by the Republic of Estonia.

🚀 This morning kicked off with the exciting Impact Valley Batch #2 onboarding! Let's take a sneak peek at the startup teams 👀 : Greentech crowd: 🇪🇪: WasteLocker, MarkeDroid, PaikesEST, BYMOSSY 🇱🇻: Rexplorer, 🇱🇹: BLUMA, AgroSync Technologies, Libera Global Healthtech Innovators: 🇪🇪: Quantum Brain Research Institute, Lyfery, Willuwalk Edtech Visionaries: 🇱🇻: VET VR, 🇱🇹: Kondigno, Wisit, gilia, Scoolsy What a crowd! We are thrilled to welcome 16 startups that are truly making a difference in the world. Stay tuned & see you all in Tallinn 😎