Two global solar energy powerhouses teamed up to help Project Vita, a nonprofit dedicated to reducing poverty in Africa sustainably, install a solar panel-powered freshwater system on a recently constructed maternity center that aids a rural community in Mozambique, as detailed by CleanTechnica.
Project Vita has been tirelessly working to reduce the global maternity mortality ratio, which in 2021 was 158.8 deaths per 100,000 live births worldwide, according to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets less than 70 deaths per 100,000 live births, per the World Health Organization (WHO).
The nonprofit built a maternity center to help newborns and their mothers in Linga Linga, Mozambique, a village in Inhambane. Women in sub-Saharan Africa face a 1 in 37 lifetime risk of dying during pregnancy or childbirth, and the maternal death rate is nearly 50 times higher than in…
