🇳🇬 UNICEF Innovation Fund Grantee · 2026

AI built for
Africa's languages.

KANAL TECH builds AI systems that speak Hausa, understand Northern Nigeria, and solve real health problems for the people who need it most.

UNICEF Innovation Fund — Selected Grantee

North Health GPT selected for $100,000 UNICEF Innovation Fund grant. Building voice-first Hausa AI health guidance for Community Health Workers in Northern Nigeria.

Grant Reference RFPS-NYH-2026-503931
UNGM: 1237118

Two products.
One mission.

A free community health tool for Northern Nigeria — and a commercial AI SDK for businesses that need Hausa language intelligence.

Coming Soon · B2B
NorthGPT SDK
Enterprise Hausa-language AI — a commercial SDK and API for organizations building products that need to understand and generate Hausa language at scale. Fully separate from the UNICEF grant.
Hausa language API — classification, generation, understanding
Custom voice model (separate female voice talent)
ASR integration for Hausa audio products
SDK for Android, iOS, Web, Node.js
B2B licensing — per-API-call pricing
Join Waitlist → No demo yet — commercial launch Q1 2027

Language-first AI.
Built in Kano.

Most AI systems are built for English — or at best, for languages spoken by large populations in wealthy countries. We build for the languages and communities that everyone else skips.

Hausa is spoken by 70–80 million people across Nigeria and the Sahel. It is one of Africa's largest languages by speakers. Yet the AI systems making health decisions in Northern Nigeria speak English, French, or nothing at all.

KANAL TECH changes that. We build AI that speaks Hausa, understands Northern Nigeria's context, and delivers value to the people who genuinely need it.

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Gaddafi Badamasi
Founder, KANAL TECH (BN8659947) · Kano, Nigeria
70M+
Hausa speakers — one of Africa's largest languages
$100K
UNICEF Innovation Fund grant — North Health GPT
5
WHO-aligned health conditions covered by the system
32
Pre-validated Hausa phrases — no AI-generated health guidance