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With 'Picture of the Week' we aim to show what's really happening on the ground, in day-to-day life across The Programme.
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Minute-by-minute coverage of what's happening across the Clean Cooling Network.
ACES Mini Cooling Festival "makes STEM come to life" for Rwandan schoolchildren
10th Dec 2025
On Saturday 6 December, 132 students from Ntare Louisenlund School travelled to the ACES campus in Kigali for a "Mini Cooling Festival", a hands-on learning event that set out to "inspire students to understand refrigeration while they are still young".
ACES to welcome school children for a Special STEM visit on December 6th
2nd Dec 2025
The excitement from the 2025 Festival of Cooling is still spreading and this time, it’s bringing an entire class to ACES for a dedicated hands-on learning experience.
Picture of the Week
Latest Pictures
With a range of photographers "shooting" for the Clean Cooling Network, we bring you The Programme in full view.
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Picture of the week: Portrait of Clarisse Mukandayambaje12th Dec 2025 -
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Picture of the week: The ACES Team28th Nov 2025 -
Picture of the week: A farmer's workshop21st Nov 2025 Farmers Cold-chain Training -
Picture of the week: Female Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning (RAC) technicians14th Nov 2025 Training Refrigeration GESI Capacity Building & Training ACES
By Degrees
By Degrees discussions
By Degrees Magazine aims to promote, explore and stimulate debate around the role of cooling as critical infrastructure, ensuring societal well-being, economic stability, and public health; adapting and mitigating the impacts of extreme heat to climate change.
In a By Degrees article, A Cool World: Accelerating the journey to Sustainable Cold-Chain for the Global South, Dr Tim Fox explores the importance of clean cooling solutions, the barriers to progress and the roadmap to a cool world - also to be explored at our upcoming conference: Sustainable Cold-Chain for the Global South.
In another By Degrees article, Building Africa’s Resilience through Cold-Chain Training for Global Health, ACES’s One Health team, Jean Pierre Musabyimana, Hugor Shema and Ariane Mutabaruka discuss how the cold-chain is the silent backbone to global health, and how its failure can mean the difference between life and death. This is one of the plenary topics to be discussed at the Sustainable Cold-Chain for the Global South conference too.
Recently published
"On the right track": Zachary Kibiri on the successes and struggles of the Lari Cooperative
Zachary Kibiri, a Kenyan farmer and chairman of the Lari Cooperative, discusses the benefits of being part of the cooperative, the challenges they face and what they're focused on going forward.
Latest discussion & opinion
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"On the right track": Zachary Kibiri on the successes and struggles of the Lari Cooperative3rd Dec 2025 - Raphael Henry ACES ACTS Climate change Cold-chain Logistics Farmers Finance & Business Models Kenya SPOKE Value Addition -
"I’m very excited to be part of this movement": Head of Research, Jean Baptiste Ndahetuye, on five years at ACES1st Dec 2025 - Raphael Henry Cold-chain ACES A Day in the Life Capacity Building & Training Climate change Community Community Cooling Hub Engineers Farmers Finance & Business Models Policymakers System Design & Modelling -
The Vaccine Cold-Chain Symposium charts a new path for climate-resilient immunisation across Africa25th Nov 2025 One Health One Health & Resilience Resilience Solar Temperature Training Vaccine Cold-chain Vaccines ACES Capacity Building & Training Climate Resilience -
We have trained 2,000+ across Africa and are setting course to double capacity during 202618th Nov 2025 - Prof. Toby Peters Farmers ACES Training Technician Refrigeration Policymakers GESI Capacity Building & Training
