Right on track in Zambia

We're happy to report that we're right on track with our first year goals in Zambia! At the end of this week, the sixteenth macro-solar panel in a rural district and seventh new panel on an Eastern Province school in a week, will have been installed.

Some ways in which the panels are helping to generate income for the communities are through mobile phone charging and the selling of tickets for film screenings on DVD. This income is vital to the schools as it gives them a much-needed cash injection to buy ingredients for the childrens' lunches.

In fact, the last two weeks have gone a long way, with ten new franchisees trained and in operation with micro-solar products. Some of the roadblocks in the micro-franchisee training has been dealing with illiteracy and suspected dyslexia. Our teachers are giving those with difficulties extra attention and helping them. We are currently updating our training material to make it more understandable with the use of more visuals.

With the first year targets having now been achieved, we are re-evaluating our macro-solar programme to see how we can reach more schools and communities in the second year. We need funds to increase the number of people we can reach, so please support us today.

Thank you