Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group (AIDG)
Why Support AIDG

 

 

 

NPR, National Public Radio

 

 

 

Guatemala Project Builds Tech from the Ground Up : NPR’s Day to Day
Reporter: Xeni Jardin

 

 

 


1. Create local sustainable businesses that improve their communities.
At AIDG, we find engineering talent in developing countries and help them form local businesses that provide renewable energy, water, and sanitation systems to underserved communities and individuals. We focus on places where people live on less that $4 a day and are now working in Haiti and Guatemala.

(Pictured: José Ordonez installing an electrical meter at Comunidad Nueva Alianza. A brilliant electronics expert, Jose was forced to leave a university electrical engineering program to support his family before joining Xelateco, AIDG's first incubated business. He is now financing his brothers and sisters university educations and currently serves as AIDG's technical manager in Guatemala.)