My Nonprofit Reviews

I've known and worked with Empower for years, first just as someone interested in their work and in the past two years as a partner in the development of a new technology. I first connected with the organization when their primary focus was garbage dump methane to electrical power to support a trash pickers' community on a dump in Pakistan. It was a really well thought out project that used a simple but powerful renewable energy technology to provide power and revenue to a very, very poor community. With electricity and money, the village was able to build a school, pay teachers and really take control of their own lives. More recently, I have been working with one of the founders of Empower to design, build and deploy a simple, smart phone enabled blood pressure and blood glucose monitoring system. The system allows villagers to measure these two critical vitals by themselves, at home, and have the results sent automatically to a clinic, the staff of which won't visit the villages. When fully implemented, the system will take us a long way toward out goal of taking public health to the community when the community cannot get to public health. Without Empower, this project would be impossible and thousands of people would still face the impossibility of health care access.