NEWS
Vodafone
to help in
fight against
malnutrition
in Africa
Elingo supports Legacy
Community Development
V
odafone has announced it is working with
Sanku-Project Healthy Children (Sanku-
PHC) to equip small flour mills in Africa with
Internet of Things (IoT) services to provide
fortified flour to millions of people.
Two billion people around the world suffer
from micronutrient malnutrition. Fortified
flour battles against hidden hunger in
developing countries, which includes
pervasive issues of nutrition deficiency such
as birth defects, child development issues
and blindness.
Sanku-PHC is bringing real-time, data-driven
insights to 3,000 small scale flour mills over
the next four years, with Vodafone’s global
IoT SIM and USB Connect technology
helping to significantly scale the programme
and improve its efficiency.
Sanku-PHC has created a first-of-its-kind
technology – the ‘dosifier’ – which enables
small African flour mills in rural areas to
fortify flour with key nutrients during the
milling process, in a way that is sustainable
and cost-effective.
In the past, one Sanku worker could only
monitor 25 mills, which would fortify flour to
feed 125,000 people. Vodafone’s IoT SIM
now connects the same worker to 100 mills,
which will fortify flour for 500,000 people. The
Sanku worker receives alerts remotely and in
real-time when the mills run out of fortified
flour or require maintenance. Vodafone and
Sanku-PHC are rolling out Vodafone’s global
IoT SIM and USB Connect technology to local
flour mills in Tanzania and Rwanda, and will
continue to implement the technology across
Eastern and Southern Africa.
Henning Lange,
CIO at Elingo
E lingo has named Legacy Community
Development as one of its corporate
social investment projects of choice. programmes is to provide people with
the skills to become employable in a
digital society.”
Based in Kayamandi, a suburb of
Stellenbosch in the Western Cape, Legacy
Community Development plays a critical
role in its community and runs several
initiatives including an afterschool centre,
a childhood development programme, a
primary school development programme,
a teenage outreach programme, a
learnership programme for Grade 11
students and a career guidance initiative. Henning Lange, CIO at Elingo, added:
“As a provider of world-class ICT
solutions tailored with best practice local
knowledge and expertise, Elingo values
and praises the work done by Legacy
Community Development. Its 360-degree
approach towards the wellness
development of children, teenagers and
adults reflect our own approach when it
comes to solutions development,” he said.
“What started from humble beginnings in
2001 has grown into a cornerstone of the
Kayamandi community, said Louise Fourie,
MD of Legacy Community Development. Meanwhile, Elingo has confirmed its
gold sponsorship of the forthcoming
G-Summit Johannesburg 2018, the
flagship African digital transformation
event for all Genesys customers and
partners in South East Africa.
“We are passionate about building our
community and providing children as
well as adults with the support they
need. A core focus of many of our
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