Kenya’s HewaSafi Wins Africa Earth Prize for Farm-Waste Vehicle Filter
The project targets matatus and boda bodas, where emissions remain a major urban air pollution concern...
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Kenyan teenagers Fredrick Njoroge Kariuki and Miron Onsarigo have won the Africa Earth Prize 2026 for developing HewaSafi, a low-cost vehicle exhaust filter made from readily available materials.
- The prize includes $12,500 to develop and implement the idea.
- The project is led by the two 17-year-old students, from Naivasha and Kisumu respectively.
- HewaSafi, meaning "clean air" in Swahili, utilizes materials like maize cobs, coconut shells, agricultural waste, and algae to reduce harmful emissions from vehicles such as matatus and boda bodas.
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