Inventor of Kenya’s ‘MoneyMaker’ Irrigation Pumps Wins $100,000 Award
The inventor of manual irrigation pumps used by peasant farmers in Africa has won the $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability.
Martin Fisher is the co-founder and CEO of the nonprofit KickStart, which develops and markets tools such as the pumps that can help small-scale rural farmers.
Nearly 62,000 people in Kenya, Tanzania and Mali are running profitable businesses by using KickStart’s MoneyMaker pumps.
Joshua Schuler, executive director of the Lemelson-MIT Program, says Fisher’s inventions have helped harness the entrepreneurial drive of many Africans.
The Lemelson-MIT Program will announce the winner of its $500,000 prize in June.
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Poor African
4 May 2008
How do I get in touch with the sales
department? I need to have bore hole to assist
the old lot in my Village.
Alfred Onyango
22 July 2008