Activities

• Malnutrition: nutrition education and local production and sale of spirulina, a food supplement of exceptional nutritional value. Again, the expensive, imported version is not widely available on local markets.
• Safe water: health education and local production and sale of chlorine for water treatment. The expensive, imported version is not widely available on local markets.
• Agriculture: increased food security through micro-agriculture techniques (currently at the research stage).
• Energy: adaptation of LED-lighting to the needs of extreme poverty and solar lighting (currently at the research stage).
• Medicines: The integration of traditional medicine and local resources in unified systems makes for sustainable health policies.
• Microcredit: the development of income-generating activities for women.

Together with an international network of scientists, we enable and engage in R&D on a range of durable technologies which are low-cost and simple in their use, and appropriate to the basic needs and socio-cultural conditions of the poorest of the poor.

We operate as an intermediary between scientific and medical research institutions, local and international organisations and the community. Our representatives in the field translate the requests and needs of developing countries, and we adapt solutions developed in the North.

Areas of research

Our dissemination strategy features:

• Implementation of our own field pilot projects to validate products and processes and to disseminate them on a large scale
• Provision of technical and financial assistance to our partners to set up dissemination programmes for the relevant technologies in Africa, Asia and Latin America
• Recommendations to governments, international organisations and NGOs on all appropriate measures to implement and establish these technologies

Current field programmes

Although Antenna is an non-profit organisation, we market some of our research products, such as the electrolyser WATA, to partially cover the costs of our research and dissemination activities.