Impact Portfolio

All over the world there are people who are looking for new solutions to positively change the world.
Every month, we support a new project that stands out for its innovative idea and extraordinary solution.

Char2Cool –  Invasive weed as CO2 storage

Char2Cool –  Invasive weed as CO2 storage

The water hyacinth is an aggressive invasive species which kills water bodies. Char2Cool developed a solution to turn the plant into a valuable soil enhancer.

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HeroRats – Rats detecting landmines

HeroRats – Rats detecting landmines

The trained African giant rats save human lives by detecting landmines or diseases such as tuberculosis quickly and cost-effectively with their fine sense of smell.

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Sanku – Ending malnutrition in Africa

Sanku – Ending malnutrition in Africa

Sanku – Project Healthy Children is a game changer in providing rural communities with access to fortified flour by partnering with local mom-and-pop mills to add nutrients at no additional costs

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mango solar – Lighting up African homes

mango solar – Lighting up African homes

mango solar brings clean energy to previously inaccessible areas of the world through digitally empowered solar home systems that are made to last.

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Health4Bees

Health4Bees

Health4Bees protects bees from environmental toxins, making use of data collected by the bees themselves.

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ShareTheMeal

ShareTheMeal

ShareTheMeal is a smartphone app that enables people to share their meal with a hungry child - through a micro donation of $ 0.50.

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Bike Bridge

Bike Bridge

Bike Bridge engages citizens to teach refugee women to ride a bike and therewith bridges cultural and social gaps.

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Bottle Refund App

Bottle Refund App

The App “Pfandgeben” allows informal bottle collectors to pick up their goods directly at your household, which drastically improves their work conditions.

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Ya Bana Global Care

Ya Bana Global Care

Ya Bana means "for the children". A free primary school is established in Kinshasa, which is financed by an affiliated school bakery.

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Swimsol – floating solar panels

Swimsol – floating solar panels

Swimsol develops floating solar systems that power Maledivian islands with clean energy without occupying any space.

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Samaki Aquaponics

Samaki Aquaponics

The student initiative Samaki of Enactus Aachen e.V. enables people in the rural regions of Africa to pursue sustainable fish farming with long-term benefits.

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SIRPLUS – Saving food

SIRPLUS – Saving food

SIRPLUS has made it its mission to counteract the immense waste of food and to make food saving the mainstream.

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OneDollarGlasses – Affordable eye care for all

OneDollarGlasses – Affordable eye care for all

More than 150 million people in the world would need glasses but cannot afford them. The one-dollar glasses are manufactured and sold by the local people themselves. The material costs: only about 1 US Dollar!

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myclimate Mountain Gorilla Project

myclimate Mountain Gorilla Project

The mountain gorilla project of the climate protection foundation myclimate supports the distribution of efficient stoves that require hardly any firewood in the densely populated region on the edge of the Virunga cloud forest in Rwanda.

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Shiriki Mikro – Solar kiosk

Shiriki Mikro – Solar kiosk

Through the Bettervest platform, we are supporting the development of a network of 80 mobile solar kiosks that will provide people in Rwanda with access to WiFi, a mobile phone charging station and all kinds of Internet-based services.

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Chill Choc hemp cocoa

Chill Choc hemp cocoa

Dave and Burkhard are two passionate founders from Stuttgart. Their start-up company wants to make Amazon Indian knowledge about organic farming accessible to cocoa farmers around the world.

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