Safe Off-Grid Brooder for Cameroonian Poultry Farmers

MIT D-Lab Design Review + Dinner: Off-Grid Brooder for Cameroonian Chick Farmers

Students from the D-Lab class Applications of Energy in Global Development with mentors and community partners from DAS-BC (African Diaspora Council of Switzerland) in Cameroon standing by their first low-cost brooder box and one load of beeswax thermal batteries. from left to right: Megan Harvey (student), Tyler Ea (student), Kristine Januskaite (trip leader), Ahmad Zakka(trip leader), Carole Erlemann Mengue (founder of CDAS-BC), Kathrin Witschi (founder of CDAS-BC), and an intern.

News | Mar 13, 2024 | MIT D-Lab

MIT D-Lab

MIT D-Lab Design Review + Dinner: Off-Grid Brooder for Cameroonian Chick Farmers

Making Sustainable Design, From the Classroom to the World / Daniel Sweeney MIT D Lab

Video | May 03, 2023 | MIT Morningside Academy for Design

MIT Morningside Academy for Design

Making Sustainable Design, From the Classroom to the World / Daniel Sweeney MIT D Lab

Coopération avec des étudiants du MIT au Cameroun

MIT D-Lab students Josh Maldonado '22 (left) and Ambre Delicap '23 (center) work with local partner on chick brooder. Photo: MIT D-Lab

Video | Oct 10, 2022 | Antenna Foundation

Antenna Foundation

Coopération avec des étudiants du MIT au Cameroun

Designing an off-grid chick brooder using thermal batteries made from beeswax

Video | Feb 13, 2023 | African Solar Generation

African Solar Generation

Designing an off-grid chick brooder using thermal batteries made from beeswax

Recipient of the 2022 J-WAFS Grant for Transforming Animal Agriculture Systems announced: A safe, off-grid chicken brooder for smallholder poultry farmers in developing countries.

News | Jun 24, 2022 | Summer Weidman | J-WAFS

Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab

Recipient of the 2022 J-WAFS Grant for Transforming Animal Agriculture Systems announced: A safe, off-grid chicken brooder for smallholder poultry farmers in developing countries.