Ahmad Zakka | MIT D-Lab

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

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

Members of the team working on the thermal box construction for the chick brooder. Photo: African Solar Generation (video capture)

Video | Feb 13, 2023 | African Solar Generation

African Solar Generation

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