Scottish and Southern support SolarAid

Scottish and Southern Energy have donated £20,000 to support SolarAid's Sunnymoney and macrosolar franchises. This is great news as we look to implement our brand-new microsolar Ravi product and scale up our macrosolar installations.

SolarAid's Executive Director, Dr Nicolas Sireau, said: "This is an exciting time for SolarAid as we plan to recruit and train many more microfranchisees over the next 12 months. On top of this we hope to import and sell 30,000 solar products and install 50 large macrosolar systems on African schools, health clinics and community centres."

With each Ravi sold, CO2 emissions are cut by one tonne over 10 years. The Ravi achieves this by powering lights and charging mobile phones in a simpler and more efficient way than previous solar products. Traditionally a family spends 20% of its income on kerosene, candles and mobile phone charging. With the purchase of a Ravi their expenditure is drastically reduced.

Consequently standards in health are improving by removing the threat of kerosene's toxic and harmful fumes. This means there is less lung disease, eyesight problems and fewer fires from spilt lamps and candles. Education and income is also improving as children now study after dark and parents work into the evening using our solar products.

To ensure SolarAid's work is effective, a franchisee from a particular area is chosen by their community to work with us and help integrate the Sunnymoney brand. Once chosen a candidate has a five day intensive sales course to learn how to best market the product.

By working closely with our franchisees we are continually developing our range of solar products to meet demand and carry out large scale marketing campaigns.

To learn more about Sunnymoney please click here.

To make a donation and support SolarAid please click here.