Powered by Solar: Bring Refrigeration to 10 Clinics in DRC

Please consider supporting the joint efforts of Strides for Africa and NovoMoto to bring solar power refrigeration for reliable vaccine, transfusion, and medicine refrigeration to 10 clinics in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The improved clinic refrigeration would be available to over 100,000 patients a year. Each contribution will make an impact, whether you donate $5 or $500. Every little bit helps.

Earlier this year we successfully installed solar kits which provided lighting and phone charging at 125 health clinics in the eastern part of Kinshasa in the DRC. Nearly 8,600 patients are seen each month and over 13,600 babies have been born at these clinics since they received their solar kits.

“I could never have imagined that one day our clinic would be lit in this way. NovoMoto has brought us a bit closer to a modern clinic setting."

Only 3 out of the 125 clinics have access to refrigeration. Reliable refrigeration is essential to prevent the degradation of stored blood, vaccines and medicine. The ten clinics chosen for this next phase will be based on location, and staff expertise such that the most number of patients will be served and the clinic will have the ability to pay for maintenance of the system. 

Every contribution will support these identified clinics to deliver higher quality service to their patients, which we feel is currently quite important during our ongoing pandemic. Our team consists of  the nonprofit, Strides for Africa and our in-county implementation partner,  NovoMoto LLC

Each refrigeration kit costs $1,200 and will include:

• A Medical 2-8 °C refrigerator 
• A Custom 400 Wh NovoMoto battery pack and charge controller with wireless monitoring
• 180 W Solar panel
• Professional installation and customer service

Yearly Impact of this project:

Solar powered refrigeration will give reliable cooling for:

Storing blood: There are over 14,000 blood transfusions that are needed each year. 

Vaccines: There are 16,000 children born at the clinics who should have access to vaccines that can reduce infant mortality.

Insulin: 5% of the population in Kinshasa have diabetes requiring insulin doses

Future project alert: After the $12,000 milestone is reached, the next $3,000 of the raised funds through this campaign will go towards funding a water well in the Kinshasa district that will further support the region where our clinics are located.

Frequent updates will be posted on this platform as well as on our Facebook pages - “Strides for Africa”, “NovoMotoLLC” so that you can follow our progress. 

Thank you so much for considering!!