Where would we be without our dedicated volunteers?

The fourth tale is about volunteers. In Malawi, we have two folks in-country who have pledged to share their skills pretty much for free for two years.

One, an Irish lad called Dave, has business skills, and is leading on helping the locals set up their own small businesses. The other, a Belgian called Carl, has technical skills, and is leading on developing new variants of the solar products as feedback comes in from the sales people in the markets. They are both super-dedicated and wonderful people.

Frankly, I'm not sure if I could do what they are. It's easy to fly in and out for a week. But they are living for two years in a red-mud brick hut with running water sometimes, maybe. And in the week before we were there they had a cobra on the back lawn one day and a green mamba on the front lawn the next. Not even Harrison Ford can deal with that kind of stuff easily.

Jeremy

This is Carl, one of our highly-skilled volunteers out in Malawi.