Medicine From Heaven

About Us Medicine From Heaven is a social-benefit start-up company that's dedicated to the mission of dramatically improving health and welfare in Africa by developing and scaling-up technologies that can improve health, reduce poverty and provide much-needed medicine to rural villages.

MfH is also experimenting with using solar-powered fans to help get the smoke (which gives women and children respiratory disease) out of women's kitchen's.

Some more pictures of the electricity-generating fire grate work.

Here we are having a training session with some potential partners in Zinguanchor, Senegal on how to assemble solar cells into a solar panel. In many parts of Africa, Solar panels are relatively expensive because of the costs of import and distribution. If we just import the solar cells, and then make the rest of the panels locally, this can make solar energy much more affordable for many Africans. This is one of the key strategies that MfH uses to make solar electricity more affordable.

This picture shows a Santa Clara University engineering student, Chris C, testing his new electricity-generating fire grate for a wood stove. The way this works, is that the fire grate takes heat from the fire, passes its through what are called thermo-electric generator chips, which then use the heat to generate electricity, which light the light in Chris's hand. This new technology is being tested at the Chief's house in the village of Masuku. This version of the device costs about $200 dollars to make and generates about 5 watts of electricity. The design will need to go through a couple more iterations to make it cost effective for Africa. But this technology should be good for the clouding and rainier parts of Africa.

A local electronics shop solders the solar cells together for our Malawi-made panels.

We started assembling solar panels in Malawi, which allow the solar panels to be both cheaper and custom-matched to our small household systems.

Meeting in the village of Masuku were there are more than a hundred eager customers on the waiting list.

Updates Pilot test is launched in Masuku, Malawi 100 customers (hundreds on waiting list) 5 staff ~20-30 new installations per week... Locally made solar panel Should be able to get to 1000 customers in Q1 2016 Four new areas are in demonstration/pilot phase (Mua, Dedza, Namwera, Ntaja) No problem finding 10,000 ready, willing and able customers in 2016 See more

First pilot tests will be conducted in five villages (Masuku, Mkwesa, Mkwalula, Makha, and Nakapa) in around the village/town Masuku, Malawi.

A meeting discussing a demonstration in the village of Makha.

Folks posing for a picture after a group of 4 houses were installed in Makha.