about
OUR STORY
We pioneer extremely low-cost technology and data driven solutions to help local communities in acute and immediate environmental crises across the world. We envision a world where no human lacks access to safe water, faces food insecurity, or is forced to live in survival mode. We're completely youth-led.

features & recognition

impact

80,000+
LIVES CHANGED
Through access to safe and usable water.

14.4MM
LITERS OF WATER
Filtered by our point-of-use technology annually.

20,000+
CLEAN COOKSTOVES
Smokeless energy-efficient cookstoves deployed.

15,000
HOURS SAVED/DAY
Cumulative hours of walking to collect clean water.
initiatives
SAFE WATER ACCESS
Our low-cost (< $8), portable, and completely energy self-sufficient water purification devices ensure water quality and safety through on-device sensors and machine learning algorithms. We've deployed 8,000 of these devices in Mwanza, Tanzania, bringing safe water access to over 40,000 people.

FOOD SECURITY
With advanced biomass technology, we've developed clean cookstoves that cost less than $4, increase energy efficiency and reduce harmful emissions by 60%. We've distributed over 20,000 of these cookstoves in Sierra Leone and India. Our vertical farm projects in Uganda have helped 2,000 young people start home based farming enterprises and work towards food security.

EMERGENCY SHELTERS
We pioneer completely energy independent collapsible "shelter kits" for people displaced from their homes due to natural disasters. Each unit can be assembled into a house for 4 people in less than 30 minutes with no specialized tools, and is nearly 7x cheaper than conventional shelters. We are building these units to provide emergency housing to survivors who lost their homes in flash floods in India and Indonesia.

innovation

LOCAL INVOLVEMENT
We don't know it all. Partnering with local communities helps us make the best decisions for our projects.

TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION
We develop extremely low-cost breakthrough solutions at the intersection of design, engineering and applied AI.

ON-GROUND IMPACT
We help bring safe water access, food security, and solutions to end survival mode living to the most affected.
100% PROMISE
At Green the Gene we've always believed in the power of complete transparency. We use 100% of your donation to develop and deploy breakthrough technologies that help communities in immediate and acute crisis situations. Being completely volunteer run allows us to minimize our overheads and focus all our resources on environmental projects. Our research and other operating expenses are covered by our group of private donors.

team


We’re a dedicated team of young volunteers working hard to change trajectories around the world.

62 COUNTRIES

7,000+ VOLUNTEERS

MILLIONS IMPACTED
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