Localized Hardware Node
Solar-powered Wittboy IoT station monitoring rain, temperature, humidity, and air quality. Built for grid-independent uptime.
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Climate Action & Sustainability
Growth that lasts: the Mtandao Hewani ecosystem — solar-powered environmental monitoring, a locally hosted dashboard and SMS alerts, and the people who turn telemetry into policy — so villages in Ugunja can adapt on their own terms.
Climate action
Sustainability, built by the community
Kijiji Yeetu's mission is empowering rural communities with the knowledge, skills and mindsets for sustainable growth. Climate action and sustainability extends that mission to how villages live with a changing climate.
Connectivity is part of the answer: when a village can access information, services and each other, it can plan, adapt and respond together.
Our strategy
Start locally, as with everything we do: communities name the priority, local knowledge shapes the response, and the work is designed to outlive any single project.
The Mtandao Hewani Ecosystem
KijijiYeetu
A model of change
Connected to the hardware, software and human capacity nodes.
Digital Software Node
Locally hosted live dashboard and automated SMS alert system, transforming raw environmental telemetry into readable formats.
Human Capacity Node
School-based mentorship hubs, civil society knowledge sessions, and community Net Wardens driving local data interpretation and policy advocacy.
Mtandao Hewani
KijijiYeetu
What this looks like
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Localized Hardware Node
Solar-powered Wittboy IoT station monitoring rain, temperature, humidity, and air quality. Built for grid-independent uptime.
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Digital Software Node
Locally hosted live dashboard and automated SMS alert system, transforming raw environmental telemetry into readable formats.
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Human Capacity Node
School-based mentorship hubs, civil society knowledge sessions, and community Net Wardens driving local data interpretation and policy advocacy.
A future the village chooses
If you work on climate or sustainability in Ugunja, talk to the team about how this initiative can fit with the community network and its people.
The other pillars
Read our researchDigital Transformation
We apply information and communication technologies to the problems communities name themselves — digital skills, affordable connectivity, online safety and locally led innovation.
Multistakeholder Dialogue
Participatory baselines, public participation and structured conversation bring residents, government, civil society and the private sector into one room — and one plan.
Communities of Practice
Net wardens, smart village champions and grassroots engineers learn together, maintain the network and pass their skills on to the next village.
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Be part of the change
Foundations, companies and individuals all have a role to play. Here is how to join.