Irna: February 2009 Archives

Whilst walking through the Lugoda Village Market in the Mufindi Southern Highlands of Tanzania, I came to realise that a missing component of my research was understanding how much a micro-solar panel costs, compared to other products that a villager would buy in a village market. For example, how much would a panel cost compared to the price of lunch for a hungry villager?

Lugoda Village Market in the Mufindi Southern Highlands, Tanzania

I saw a woman who had just bought a piglet. I asked her how much she paid for the piglet. "40,000 Shillings" she said, as she tried to keep the piglet from running away.

Woman with piglet at Lugoda Village Market

Then I spotted chickens, goats, flip flops, second-hand clothing and cows. And before I knew it, I started to gather different prices for different products that a villager in rural Tanzania would buy and compared the prices to the price of a solar panel (which at 15,000 Tsh is about £7)

Click here to see my findings!...
Product list.doc

Bye for now,
Irna