The 400-KW solar plant of the Bamyan Provincial Hospital in Afghanistan provides for the majority of the electricity supply for the Hospital.
AKDN invests in healthcare approaches that address existing patients’ needs while safeguarding the well-being of future generations. Its hospitals and health centres therefore promote climate-smart actions that enable the facilities to continue delivering quality care, while reducing their carbon footprint. Photo: AKDN / Kiana Hayeri. Learn more.
AKDN has long championed the cause of good stewardship of the environment. However, as environmental degradation and climate change have had a growing impact on the populations that AKDN serves, protecting the environment and mitigating climate change, as well as helping populations adapt to the effects of climate change, has taken on increased urgency and importance.