The mission of this new association is to succeed the federal requirement of support the economic growth in Africa based on renewable energy and sustainability. Therefor a few pioneers of Schleswig-Holstein bundle their expertise and experience and founded in December 2017 the Renewable Energy For Africa (REFA) GmbH & Co. KG. One of the two CEO is Claas Arlt from Dirkshof, who will develop the new organisation to a successful and reliable partner in Africa. His approach is to build up the whole value added chain – not only a business.