Cameroon hub - multi-country network in preparation
Sources.Africa transforms organic waste into clean cooking gas, fertilizer and reliable power, while measuring smoke exposure and connecting vulnerable households to local health actors.
Reduce smoke at the source - sense air quality - support community health action.
Origin
Deployments in preparationOne night in Foumban, Cameroon, a power cut and surrounding wood-and-charcoal smoke made the link between energy, air and health impossible to ignore. Sources.Africa grew from that lived experience - not as a medical device, but as infrastructure that reduces exposure and supports community resilience.
Read the founding story ?Why we exist
« A mission-driven African infrastructure venture using commercial discipline and public-interest partnerships so communities can own and operate systems locally. »
Sources.Africa is building a continental hub: Cameroon is the legal and field anchor; national branches are planned for Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali, Congo, DRC, Guinea and further countries. We do not claim stations are already running - we prepare first deployments carefully.
Infrastructure remains the engine. The climate-health layer makes risk visible and actionable.
Replace wood and charcoal with clean biogas cooking - cutting the exposure pathway at source while producing fertiliser and optional power.
Low-cost air-quality sensing (PM2.5, CO, temperature, humidity) turns each deployment into a climate-informed risk signal.
A community-health-worker referral loop helps local health actors act sooner for households with respiratory vulnerability.
The parts are known. The innovation is the integrated operating model that turns cleaner energy into a measurable health-response system.
| Conventional biogas programme | Sources.Africa model |
|---|---|
| Measures units installed | Measures exposure reduction and adoption |
| Focuses mainly on fuel | Connects energy, air quality and health response |
| No clinical referral pathway | Community-health-worker and clinic workflow |
| Technical monitoring only | Technical, environmental and health indicators |
| Installation-focused | Installation, maintenance, adoption and health action |
First evidence pilot
Primary focus: household smoke exposure and earlier prevention, screening and referral for chronic respiratory vulnerability. Stations not installed yet.
Every Sources.Africa unit attacks seven African problems simultaneously - energy, agriculture, waste, air quality and municipal pressure included.
Replace imported gas and LPG with biogas from local waste.
Each biogas household can ease pressure on fuelwood - site-specific estimates required.
Produce organic fertilizer from digestate - no imports needed.
Healthier soil = more resilient harvests = more local food.
Market refuse, household scraps, farm manure: no longer problems, now resources.
Reduce smoke exposure, measure it, and turn risk signals into earlier action by local health actors.
Less waste to landfill = lower city cleaning budgets.
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A single station links circular energy with cleaner air and local response.
Five flows. One piece of equipment.
Food scraps, manure, market waste.
Clean cooking fuel for the household - less indoor smoke.
Liquid digestate collected from the low outlet.
Sold to farmers or used on-site.
A biogas generator converts gas into on-site power: lighting, pumps, small cold-chain.
Biogas is live today. Solar, storage and hybrid mini-grids are on the roadmap ? labelled honestly as scale targets, not current products.
Technology available for clean cooking, fertilizer and optional generation - first Sources installs being prepared.
Daytime power for pumps, lighting and clinics ? planned as a co-module, not a claim of current installs.
Batteries and thermal options to bridge night demand and grid gaps ? design stage only.
Biogas + solar (+ storage) for resilient multi-source sites ? future deployments.
A firm contractual timeline for government partners - with an evidence-pilot entry route available first.
Government signs the Letter of Intent (LOI)
Framework agreement signed + site selection
First industrial kits arrive
Local teams trained and certified
First 50 stations operational
Modelled annual figures per 1,000 units - labelled as scale targets, not measured pilot results.
3 000 - 5 000
t/yr
Bio-fertilizer produced
5 000 - 8 000
t/yr
Wood saved
12 000 - 16 000
tCO2e/yr
CO2 avoided
100 - 150
Local jobs created
4 000 - 6 000
Households with clean cooking
10 000 - 15 000
t/yr
Waste diverted from landfill
5 000 - 9 000
MWh/yr
Electricity generated
Research, field learning, fertiliser geopolitics, clean air.
Financing infrastructure in development
Sources.Africa is preparing its first clean-energy installations and a financing model for eligible homes and institutions. The proposed facility would connect capital to validated assets, with service or lease payments over time. Technical performance, affordability and repayment capacity must be demonstrated before scale-up.
Explore Sources FinanceHealth facilities, research partners, municipalities, communities and funders - a confidential conversation.
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