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We help communities measure, understand, and reduce risks from air pollution, poor indoor environmental conditions, and airborne biological hazards.",{"enabled":15,"label":16,"body":17},true,"Relationship with AirGradient",[18,19],"Before the Open Air Foundation was established, AirGradient supported community air quality projects in a nonprofit capacity for six years. The foundation is now the dedicated Swiss non-profit home for this public-interest work, separate from AirGradient, while carrying forward the same open-source technology, community relationships, and values.","AirGradient has committed 5,000 air quality sensors to the Open Air Foundation at no cost. The foundation will also become the long-term guardian of AirGradient's open-source software, hardware, and firmware, helping ensure that the tools remain transparent, auditable, and useful for communities, researchers, and public-interest partners.",{"id":21,"eyebrow":22,"title":23,"cardTitle":24,"cardSummary":25,"summary":26,"items":27},"why-this-matters","Why This Matters","Air quality and airborne health risks are local. Too often, the data is missing.","The gap","Local evidence is still missing where communities need it most.","Communities cannot protect health, improve indoor and outdoor environments, or advocate for cleaner air without trusted local evidence.",[28,29,30],"The communities most exposed to air pollution and airborne health risks are often the communities least able to measure them.","Without local data, pollution, poor ventilation, mold risk, and airborne biological hazards remain invisible to residents, schools, health workers, and decision-makers.","Public monitoring and open environmental health data make exposure visible and give communities a practical basis for education, protection, research, and advocacy.",{"title":32,"summary":33,"items":34},"The path forward","Monitoring does not just measure pollution. It helps communities move through a repeatable path from evidence to action.",[35,36,37,38],"Open monitoring generates trusted local evidence.","Communities and researchers share useful data responsibly.","Communication creates awareness.","Awareness drives positive change.",{"id":40,"eyebrow":41,"showHeading":6,"title":42,"summary":43,"pillars":44,"items":57,"caseStudy":67},"what-we-do","What We Do","We turn open air quality technology, environmental health data, and airborne risk research into local action.","We combine open monitoring technology, open data infrastructure, research partnerships, biosafety pilots, technical support, training, and community funding so local partners can measure risks, understand evidence, and act.",[45,48,51,54],{"title":46,"body":47},"Community air quality monitoring","We support planning, deployment, and maintenance of open air quality monitors where public data is missing, so local partners can build trusted evidence.",{"title":49,"body":50},"Open source and open data","We build and steward open environmental health data systems, software, hardware, and firmware so communities, researchers, and institutions can use transparent, auditable, and reusable public-interest tools.",{"title":52,"body":53},"Local capacity building","We help partners interpret data, communicate risks, run awareness activities, and use evidence for health protection, advocacy, and public action.",{"title":55,"body":56},"Biosafety and airborne hazards","We support research, sensing pilots, environmental surveillance, and ventilation assessment for homes, schools, healthcare facilities, workplaces, and public spaces.",[58,61,64],{"title":59,"body":60},"Monitor provision and technical support","We help communities deploy and maintain open air quality monitors where little or no public data exists.",{"title":62,"body":63},"Local communication and advocacy capacity","We support partners with data interpretation, public communication, awareness activities, and advocacy so monitoring results can lead to local action.",{"title":65,"body":66},"Education and advocacy support","We support education, campaigns, and community activation that turn air quality evidence into protection, awareness, and public action.",{"tag":68,"location":69,"title":70,"paragraphs":71,"quote":74,"attribution":75,"videoUrl":76,"videoTitle":77,"cta":78},"Community Air Quality in Practice","Lagos, Nigeria","One monitor helped make the case for cleaner technology.",[72,73],"In a Lagos fish-smoking community, local monitoring helped make invisible exposure visible. The data supported a clearer case for changing how smoke exposure was being managed.","The Lagos Environmental Protection Agency later installed smokeless eco-kilns, showing how local evidence can help connect community concern with practical intervention.","For us to be able to inform governments, we need data, and luckily we got the data from AirGradient, which we used in piloting the study.","Okwong Walter","https://player.vimeo.com/video/1126379726?autoplay=1&muted=1&loop=1&background=1&autopause=0","A Visit to One of Lagos Slums",{"label":79,"href":80},"See What We Do","/what-we-do",{"id":82,"eyebrow":83,"title":84,"paragraphs":85},"airborne-environmental-health","Airborne Environmental Health","Beyond Pollution: Airborne Environmental Health",[86,87],"Air quality is our starting point. The same open monitoring systems, local capacity, data infrastructure, and ventilation knowledge that help communities reduce air pollution can also strengthen protection against airborne biological hazards.","Indoor air, ventilation, humidity, thermal comfort, mold risk, and airborne pathogens all shape health in homes, schools, healthcare facilities, workplaces, and public spaces. The Open Air Foundation supports research, sensing pilots, environmental surveillance, and practical assessment methods that help communities reduce both chronic pollution exposure and emerging airborne health risks.",{"id":89,"eyebrow":90,"title":91,"summary":92,"iframeTitle":93,"iframeSrc":94,"legend":95},"global-monitoring-network","Air Quality Map","Explore public air quality monitor data.","The launch map shows all public AirGradient monitors, making real-time air quality data visible across many communities and regions.","AirGradient air quality map","https://www.airgradient.com/map?zoom=3&long=-1.559482&lat=47.21322&headless=true&meas=ug_m3&wind_layer=false&fires_layer=false&map_theme=light&org=ag&embedded=false",[],{"enabled":6},{"enabled":6},{"id":99,"eyebrow":100,"title":101,"summary":102},"our-projects","Projects","Community Air Quality Projects We've Supported.","Our work with communities is focused on sustainable impact. After our projects, communities can maintain their monitoring networks and teach others how to do the same, expanding knowledge and skills in a cyclical way.",{"id":104,"eyebrow":105,"title":106,"summary":107,"cards":108},"get-involved","Visitor Paths","Choose the path that fits your role.","The Open Air Foundation supports community air quality projects, builds open source and open data infrastructure, and advances biosafety and airborne hazard resilience. We award support to local partners while seeking funding to scale public-interest impact.",[109,113],{"title":110,"body":111,"cta":112,"href":80},"What We Do & How to Support Us","Understand our air quality and environmental health mission, our four pillars, and why the model can scale.","Read the model",{"title":114,"body":115,"cta":116,"href":117},"Get Funded","Learn what support can include for community air quality, indoor environmental health, biosafety, and public-interest data projects.","Get support","/get-funded",{"enabled":6},{"enabled":6},{"title":121,"summary":122,"primaryCta":123,"secondaryCta":124},"Help advance air quality and environmental health for everyone.","Support community air quality monitoring, open source and open data, biosafety and airborne hazard resilience, home and public-space assessment, and local capacity building.",{"label":114,"href":117},{"label":41,"href":80},{"type":126,"children":127,"toc":128},"root",[],{"title":5,"searchDepth":129,"depth":129,"links":130},2,[],"markdown","content:index.md","content","index.md","index","md",{"_path":138,"_dir":40,"_draft":6,"_partial":6,"_locale":5,"title":100,"description":139,"layout":40,"hidden":15,"noindex":15,"tabKey":99,"showTabs":6,"pageGroup":140,"searchPlaceholder":142,"filters":143,"impactBand":146,"projects":147,"body":281,"_type":131,"_id":285,"_source":133,"_file":286,"_stem":287,"_extension":136},"/what-we-do/our-projects","Project examples showing how community air quality monitoring can support awareness, education, advocacy, and public action.",{"title":100,"summary":141},"Proof that open air quality data can support community action.","Search projects, countries, keywords...",{"regionLabel":144,"typeLabel":145},"All Regions","All Types",{"title":5},[148,167,191,215,237,259],{"slug":149,"title":150,"regionLabel":151,"regionGroup":152,"type":153,"summary":154,"description":155,"tags":156,"monitors":160,"funding":161,"period":162,"imageUrl":163,"imageAlt":164,"impact":165,"approach":166},"unicef-lao-pdr","UNICEF Lao PDR","Lao PDR, Southeast Asia","Southeast Asia","School Network","A national school-based monitoring network that expanded public access to air quality data in places where reliable data had been limited.","In collaboration with UNICEF Lao PDR and the Office of Innovation, AirGradient monitors were deployed across schools to create a much larger network of local, real-time air quality information. The project also focused on training teachers, students, and local officials so communities could understand the data and use it to protect health.",[157,158,159],"schools","public data","capacity building",160,"Support package","Active","https://map-data.airgradient.com/blog-images/blog/c6679e18-b382-418c-9fde-5a666cc933c3/hero/hero-w1600.webp","UNICEF Lao PDR air quality monitoring project","The network gave schools and public partners broader access to localised air quality visibility.","Monitor deployment was paired with training and public-facing data access so the network could be useful beyond installation.",{"slug":168,"title":169,"regionLabel":170,"regionGroup":152,"type":153,"summary":171,"description":172,"tags":173,"monitors":176,"funding":161,"period":162,"imageUrl":177,"imageAlt":178,"impact":179,"approach":180,"detailSections":181},"mechai-bamboo-school","Mechai Bamboo School","Thailand, Southeast Asia","A school partnership helping students observe real-time air quality changes, analyze data, and share findings with their wider community.","In Thailand's Buriram province, Mechai Bamboo School has extended its service-based education model into air quality. Students use donated monitors to track real-time changes caused by seasonal crop burning and forest fires, analyze the data, and share findings with local villagers.",[157,174,175],"education","community",100,"https://map-data.airgradient.com/blog-images/blog/a1d5523a-aa78-43c5-80b0-f9be790b0753/hero/hero-w1600.webp","Mechai Bamboo School air quality education project","Students build practical environmental data skills while helping the surrounding community understand pollution risks during burning season.","The project combines monitor deployment with classroom analysis, student communication, and early-warning awareness for villagers.",[182,185,188],{"title":183,"body":184},"What they are doing","Students monitor pollution patterns linked to crop burning and forest fires, then turn that data into practical learning and community outreach.",{"title":186,"body":187},"Why it matters","The school setting makes air quality data part of science, health awareness, and civic responsibility rather than a distant technical topic.",{"title":189,"body":190},"How data is used","Students analyze the readings and share findings with villagers so local residents can better understand health risks and early warnings.",{"slug":192,"title":193,"regionLabel":194,"regionGroup":195,"type":196,"summary":197,"description":198,"tags":199,"monitors":203,"funding":161,"period":162,"imageUrl":204,"imageAlt":205,"impact":206,"approach":207,"detailSections":208},"demography-project","The Demography Project","Kenya, Africa","Africa","Youth-led","A youth-led civic technology initiative using community air quality data to support public forums, petitions, and local advocacy.","In Kihumo Village near Kikuyu Municipality, The Demography Project is deploying monitors to address pollution from biomass fuel, quarry dust, and road construction. The project connects local measurements with youth-led civic action.",[200,201,202],"youth-led","advocacy","civic technology",50,"https://map-data.airgradient.com/blog-images/blog/d2d3b3c8-1d86-4faf-a45e-4a1fdc0b4ede/hero/hero-w1600.webp","The Demography Project air quality monitoring work","Youth advocates can pair community experience with local measurements when engaging contractors, quarry owners, and public institutions.","Monitoring is paired with public forums, petitions, protective equipment distribution, planned indoor air quality assessments, and a tree-planting drive to reduce airborne dust.",[209,211,213],{"title":183,"body":210},"The team is deploying monitors in a community affected by biomass fuel use, quarry dust, and road construction.",{"title":186,"body":212},"Local residents can move from anecdotal concern to evidence-backed advocacy when engaging contractors, quarry owners, and public agencies.",{"title":189,"body":214},"Readings have informed community forums, petitions, protective equipment distribution, and plans for indoor assessments and tree planting.",{"slug":216,"title":217,"regionLabel":218,"regionGroup":195,"type":219,"summary":220,"description":221,"tags":222,"monitors":224,"funding":225,"period":162,"imageUrl":226,"imageAlt":227,"impact":228,"approach":229,"detailSections":230},"communities-against-pollution","Communities Against Pollution","South Africa, Africa","Community Project","A grassroots health and environmental organisation working with residents facing industrial pollution burdens.","Communities Against Pollution built an independent monitoring network after promised government data failed to materialise. The network now has 25 active monitors across KwaZulu Natal, Cape, Gauteng, and Mauritius, including 10 monitors donated by AirGradient.",[175,201,223],"health","25 active","10 donated","https://map-data.airgradient.com/blog-images/blog/3c433bf6-0933-4a6f-afb4-630adf13e948/hero/hero-w1600.webp","Communities Against Pollution partnership","Local residents can use measurements alongside personal testimony when engaging decision-makers, especially in areas affected by industrial activity and seasonal pollution spikes.","The network is embedded in schools and local groups. CAP's \"What Colour is Your Day\" programme helps young people connect pollution data to daily life and advocacy.",[231,233,235],{"title":183,"body":232},"CAP operates an independent monitoring network across several regions and uses the data with schools, local groups, and affected residents.",{"title":186,"body":234},"In the iLembe district, seasonal sugarcane harvesting drives pollution spikes, making local monitoring a practical tool for community organising.",{"title":189,"body":236},"The \"What Colour is Your Day\" programme helps young people understand daily pollution levels and turn that understanding into advocacy.",{"slug":238,"title":239,"regionLabel":240,"regionGroup":241,"type":196,"summary":242,"description":243,"tags":244,"monitors":246,"funding":247,"period":162,"imageUrl":248,"imageAlt":249,"impact":250,"approach":251,"detailSections":252},"sustenta-honduras","Sustenta Honduras","Honduras, Latin America","Latin America","A youth-led initiative connecting air pollution, climate resilience, and environmental justice through public education and community action.","Sustenta Honduras empowers young people to lead climate action and sustainable development through practical community projects. The team travelled to Lamani to install two donated monitors as part of its Aire Limpio Honduras project.",[200,174,245],"climate","2 installed","Ambassador-funded","https://map-data.airgradient.com/blog-images/blog/d0854f2d-2e96-471e-bbcb-3aca9646b1cb/hero/hero-w1600.webp","Sustenta Honduras youth-led air quality project","Youth leaders can frame air quality as an immediate public issue and build awareness in their own communities.","Monitor deployment is paired with youth empowerment, community workshops, and open helplines so residents can understand and act on the data after installation.",[253,255,257],{"title":183,"body":254},"The Aire Limpio Honduras project began with monitor installations in Lamani, a small rural town, with more installations planned across the country.",{"title":186,"body":256},"The organisation helps young volunteers move from caring about environmental issues to knowing where to start and how to act locally.",{"title":189,"body":258},"Community workshops and open helplines help residents understand the readings and continue using the data after installation.",{"slug":260,"title":261,"regionLabel":262,"regionGroup":241,"type":263,"summary":264,"description":265,"tags":266,"monitors":269,"funding":161,"period":162,"imageUrl":270,"imageAlt":271,"impact":272,"approach":273,"detailSections":274},"pacha-ayllu","Pacha Ayllu","Ecuador, Latin America","Family-led","A family-led clean air observatory focused on children's health and public access to local air quality data.","Pacha Ayllu is driven by parents and relatives concerned about the impact of air pollution on children's health. Its Family-Led Clean Air Observatory places monitors near parks, schools, childcare centres, healthcare facilities, and pollution hotspots.",[267,158,268],"children","family-led","Support provided","https://map-data.airgradient.com/blog-images/blog/81f68966-7f4a-41df-b6a7-079c34adca1d/hero/hero-w1600.webp","Pacha Ayllu clean air observatory project","Families gain better access to local air quality information near places where children live, learn, play, and receive care.","Monitor support is combined with family workshops and campaigns focused on the impact of air pollution on children's health.",[275,277,279],{"title":183,"body":276},"Families are building a clean air observatory that makes real-time local air quality information accessible across Ecuador.",{"title":186,"body":278},"The project focuses on children's health by monitoring places such as schools, childcare centres, parks, healthcare facilities, and pollution hotspots.",{"title":189,"body":280},"The group pairs public monitoring with family workshops and campaigns so parents and communities can advocate for cleaner air.",{"type":126,"children":282,"toc":283},[],{"title":5,"searchDepth":129,"depth":129,"links":284},[],"content:what-we-do:our-projects:index.md","what-we-do/our-projects/index.md","what-we-do/our-projects/index",1782204255199]