Jesse Oljange
Jesse Oljange When Jesse Oliange attended MIT’s International Development Design Summit (IDDS) in Arusha in 2014, he was able to hear first-hand from communities about the issues they needed help solving. When he heard from farmers about an abundance of avocados, he remembered the piles of rotting fruit from his childhood and realized he could […]
Alfred Chengula
Alfred Chengula Alfred Chengula, co-founder of Imara Tech and innovator of the The Multi-Crop Thresher (MCT) For many smallholder farmers in Tanzania, hand threshing their crops is a way of life. To thresh grain by hand, it’s put on the ground and beaten with sticks until the cereal separates from the plant. It’s backbreaking work […]
