"Every morning, women trek miles to gather firewood; some, in the process, get raped or, worse, even killed," Damilola Aminat Adeyemi writes on her website.
"This is similar to other rural communities in Nigeria."
Adeyemi's solution: D-Olivette, a social enterprise that produces and installs hybrid bio systems for off-grid households, farms, and communities that generate up to 10,000 cubic meters of biogas and at least 50 kilograms of organic waste per day.
She's just won the Margaret Award, a prestigious award for female tech leaders in Africa, the Washington Post reports.
The John F.
Kennedy Foundation, which runs the award, says the entries this year were "phenomenal," especially from English-speaking Africa.
"The quality of submissions was phenomenal," Nelly Chatu-Diop, co-founder and CEO of Ejara and the 2023 Margaret Entrepreneur Africa, tells the Post.
"Yet, this only 'underscores the elevated standards of the Margaret Award,'" Adeyemi tellsVentures Africa.
Adeyemi tells the Post that her hometown of Ifo in southern Nigeria "was disorganized and hard to reach, making energy transmission difficult; the people depended solely on firewood, diesel
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