With a solar light, everything changes

School closures due to COVID-19 are hitting the most vulnerable children in Malawi hard. Radio lessons have been developed but widespread energy poverty means a lot of students are lacking radios in their homes. Solar light radios can help students keep up with their education.

St. Paul’s Mission Rural Health Centre in Zambia has suffered for a long time from consecutive power cuts, especially during the rainy season. Healthcare worker have been forced to either stop their work or carry out procedures in the dark with the help of small handheld torches. As part of a larger pilot to Power Healthcare, solar products were delivered to St. Paul's in December.

Women are key change-makers in providing energy access to rural communities and we recognise that having women at the forefront of our work is essential to achieving our mission of lighting up every home, school and clinic in Africa by 2030, using safe, clean, solar power. That is why we are launching the Mayi Walas programme, to recruit, train and support female solar entrepreneurs in rural Malawi.