We are academics and professionals in public health and other research scopes relating to the social and tech sciences. Thanks to the European Union secondments in Africa, we discovered how easy we can improve public health rates related to the rural and urban-slum areas of sub-Saharan Africa.

More than half of the local African population experience living in houses missing basic public health axiom: cleanable floor. On one hand, it makes efficient cleaning impossible. On the other hand, it makes people use methods of cleaning that do not decrease a risk of spreading diseases.

This way we worked out scalable standard of affordable concrete floor that can be provided not only to all family houses in African villages and urban slums but also to small schools and clinics. It lets people change the quality of everyday living and learning to easy-to-clean environment. Moreover, the floor is always constructed by the local professionals only. And people use only local materials too. It usually takes up 48hrs to start each project, which makes the F4A an instatn crisis response programme delivering decent jobs.

A low-cost public health improvement is our strategic goal (SDG3). But we are fully aware we do deal also with two other SDGs, not less important in today's Africa facing rapid population growth. They are: SDG8 (decent work for local construction professionals and people ready to acquire construction skills). It's a great base for the local peacebuilding and extreme poverty eradication, in fact.

In 2022 we started to deal with a real-world SDG4 in relation to the rural and urban slum schools. Most of small schools located in remote villages and informal settlements have dirt floors only. It means children stay in mud when it rains. Or they have problems with dust during the dry season. Cleanable concrete floor changes everything everything. People can clean it even with rain water and cane broom only.

In 2025 we moved ahead with another UN challenge: Climate Action. Local communities were experiencing raising issues with plastic pollution. But when we started to add just 1kg of locally recycled plastic granules to each 1sqm of the concrete floor, we  helped local community to get rid of at least 200kg of plastic waste. Bringing cleanable floor to each small African school lets people participate in SDG13 with ease.

So, we can offer now not only scientific impact but also crisis response advisory with this simply scalable social innovation programme.

Floor4Africa INTERNATIONAL MANAGING TEAM:

• Roman Mazur [ UK ] - Programme Director (M)

• Stanislaw Wojciechowski [ PL ] - Deputy Director, Head of Construction Standards (M)

• Grazyna Czubinska [ UK ] - Head of the Research and Public Health Consultant (F)

• Teresa Naidoo [ UK ] - Africa Studies (F)

• Sheka Tarawalie [ SL ] - Intercultural Communication Advisor (M)

• Joyce Kinyanjui [ KE ] - East Africa Programme Leader (F)

• Anna Watola [ PL ] - Kenya Exec (F)

• Adriana Gorka [ UK ] - Psychologist (F)

• Eric Tackie Tawiah Ankrah [ GH ] - Ghana Programme Leader (M)

• Abiola Seriki [ NG ] - Western Nigeria Programme Manager (F)

• Owolusi Lucky [ NG ] - Central Nigeria Programme Manager (M)

• Daria Kowalska [ PL ] - SDG4 Innovator (F)

• Iwona Zywko [ PL ] - Head of Accounts (F)

• Pawel Nogal [ PL ] - Leader of Volunteering (M)

• Jan Kutra [ PL ] - Administration Lead (M)

• Katarzyna Wojciechowska [ PL ] - Hospitality Leader (F)

• Nelson Safu [ KE ] - Inclusive Education (M)

• Bonface Muyodi [ KE ] - Peacebuilding (M)

• Brian Ssenabulya [ UG ] - Local Research Volunteering Lead (M)

• Sumayya Namata [ UG ] - Local Research Volunteering Assistant (F)