Majd Mashharawi Talks
GreenCake and SunBox
13 Apr 2018, 19:00 – 21:00
GreenCake is a building block made out of ashes and rubbles of the demolished houses in Gaza.
The world in the last few decades depends on coal combustion to generate electricity. This process results an enormous amounts of Ash. This unusable by-product powder buried underground and causing direct pollution to the ground water as it permeates quickly through soil particles. Paying attention to the environmental condition attached to the coal combustion here in Gaza Strip, more than 6 tons are produced weekly and this leads to uncontrolled environmental issue. On the other hand, for the last ten years; a tight blockade has prevented communities in Gaza from developing their homes and cities – or even rebuilding the destruction caused by military bombing – in which approximately 180,000 houses were bombarded during the last aggression and many people were left homeless. This has resulted in a product and material shortage of building blocks particularly.
GreenCake is a solution to an urgent problem that is scalable, adaptable, affordable, durable, and always available to meet people’s needs. As the bricks are not dependent on the import of building materials (sand and aggregate) from outside Gaza, people can rebuild their houses from existing raw materials as self-sufficient communities. So that, GreenCake bricks are environmentally friendly bricks with high quality and low cost.
SunBox introduces an affordable off-grid, self installable small solar kit for families who suffer from electricity shortage. Our product is not only affordable but also saves money replacing other expensive supplements such as generators and fuel.
One Solar kit is designed to provide 1 KWH/day that is enough electricity to support basic appliances such as 6 lights, 2 phones and 2 laptop chargers, and connection to the internet all the day and fan or Television for half a day. SunBox consists of 2 Panels with 80 watts power for each one, 1 device with 500 watts power and 1 battery with 100Ah. We also offer the customers the ability to choose smaller or bigger batteries starting from 40Ah to 200Ah, in accordance with their consumption. SunBox is using proven technology, with 44M similar devices deployed in Africa and India.