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Sodzo Foundation
Sodzo Foundation is a non-profit organization based in Uganda that focuses on impacting livelihoods on all levels of social development using science, technology, evidence-based approaches, behavior change communication, advocacy, and activism as well as sensitization. Through programs such as innovative technology development, resilient research, policy development, open education, and literacy. Sodzo Foundation is empowering vulnerable communities to become agents of change towards meeting the SDGs.

Established in March 2020 by Nelson Wasswa and Hope Barriet using social capital from the Shuttleworth Foundation, a grant that was awarded to Nelson Wasswa to experiment on the LAWUNA project, an open-source project empowering communities to fight macro plastic pollution using environmental data, rehabilitation efforts, and awareness initiatives. The foundation is applying modern technologies like artificial intelligence to conserve the environment, fight child abuse and violence as well as push society and the human race forward. All projects developed under the foundation subscribe to the open principles and strategies to ensure global transformation of communities where developed disruptive solutions can be implemented to ensure replication and re-usability of these solutions as well as advance open knowledge societies in this constantly challenging and complicated world.

Projects

 * LAWUNA

Partners
Sodzo Foundation works in partnership with the Ministry of Water and Environment in Uganda, and various international organizations, foundations, and institutions on various programs. Some of the global partners include; The Patrick J McGovern Foundation, Shuttleworth Foundation, Amazon, Modern Scientist Global, Canada among others.