Elly Savatia and Emmanuel Mulengwa who developed Veezaviz, mobile application that interprets hand movement and to text for the deaf.
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A Kenyan Elly Savatia is the winner of this year’s 2025 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation.
Savatia was awarded £50,000 (Sh7.6 million) for his sign language translation app Terp 360 by the Royal Academy of Engineering, the brains behind the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation – the largest dedicated engineering prize in Africa.
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