Aftrak
Spotlights

Sites and deployments

Every Aftrak deployment in Africa, written up the same way: the site, the equipment and what it changed.

6 deployments
The Aftrak tractor ploughing with a solar panel mounted over it, throwing up a plume of red dust, onlookers to one side
PublishedCommunity siteEmisizini, Malawi · 4 modules · 1 tractorThe demonstration site: four solar modules, one community tractor, and the ground to prove both on.Read the spotlight →
Pupils in blue uniforms gathered beside a large ground-mounted solar array in the school yard
PublishedEhlekweni Full Primary SchoolEkwendeni, north of Mzuzu, Malawi · Over 400 pupils, two sessions a dayEhlekweni Full Primary School at Ekwendeni, north of Mzuzu: over 400 pupils in two daily sessions, some walking up to 15 km.Read the spotlight →
Photo slot — the operator
with the machine, on their ground
PublishedManufacturing hubBlantyre, Malawi · First hub in the regionThe manufacturing hub that makes the rest of it scalable.Read the spotlight →
Farmers gathered around the Aftrak tractor on broken red ground at Mzamo, an Aftrak engineer at the handlebars and a trainer talking the group through the machine
PublishedMzamo villageMalawi · Array and tractor to followFarmers trained on the ground before anything was installed. The array and the tractor follow.Read the spotlight →
The project team gathered for a group photograph on bare irrigated ground in western Zambia at dusk, a centre-pivot irrigator behind them
PublishedCommunity projectWestern Zambia · One tractor, one pumpA community project in western Zambia running an AFT-e1 with a DC water pump and a rotovator, instrumented from the start for a two-year monitoring window.Read the spotlight →
Solar panels installed on the roof of Ngolowindo Hospital, Salima, Malawi
PublishedStarfish maternity clinicNgolowindo Hospital, Salima, Malawi · 1 clinic · 6 homesSolar powering a maternity clinic and the nurses' homes beside it, alongside Deep Bed Farming training for the community that surrounds it.Read the spotlight →

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