Community Service
We are mainly motivated by extreme levels of energy poverty and high reliance on untreated solid fuels particularly firewood and charcoal which not only drives the escalating rates of deforestation hence environmental degradation and biodiversity loss but also emits greenhouse gases particularly carbon dioxide.
A transition to clean energy is about making an investment in our future."
Dr. Mukisa Nicholas, National Renewable Energy Platform
Our innovations in cooking solutions are targeted to curb deforestation in search for biomass cooking.
World Health Organization (WHO) statistics recently show that 3.2m lives are prematurely lost per annum globally. Main victims being women and young babies and the biggest percentage coming from the developing Africa where Uganda belongs.
SWEDO desires to be the leading supplier of innovative sustainable and affordable energy solutions empowering households, communities and institutions to transit to a low-carbon economy.
About 750 million people worldwide lack access to electricity, with 80% of them living in sub-Saharan Africa.
However, if we are to look at access to clean energy more broadly, the number is significantly higher, around 2.6 billion people rely on untreated solid polluting energy source especially firewood and charcoal for their daily cooking needs resulting into severe indoor air pollution (IAP), Environmental degradation and biodiversity loss.
About 3.2 million lives are lost prematurely around the globe to smoke-related illnesses, majority victims being women and young babies who take long hours in the cooking environments (kitchens)
1.3 gigatons of carbon emissions produced per year because of cooking with solid fuels particularly firewood and charcoal driving the escalating rates of global warming and so climate change.
