This great little video, from the Design Museum, shows the process that went into the design of the SM100 solar light. DesignIt-MakeIt-UseIt is an outreach project for primary schools, run by the Design Museum for Flagship Open Futures Schools. The project supports teachers to use design as a route into creativity and problem-solving in […]
This is Part 2 of a blog from our CEO, John Keane, who took a night walk around Mandevu Village where we hope to run the pilot of Project Switch, in Malawi. Read Part 1. Gladys lives in a small house in which seven children sleep. It’s hard to imagine how there is enough room. As […]
This little video, from Mandevu village highlights what families in Malawi are doing for basic lighting at home. It demonstrates “the gap” which is being created by the majority of energy projects in Africa – which do not address energy access for the poor, leaving them locked in poverty. There is a huge amount of work to do to […]
MyAnna Buring, actress, campaigner and Mum, shares her thoughts on climate change and SolarAid with a special message to the world’s citizens: The solar revolution is here and now. There’s more than enough solar power to easily provide all the energy the world needs – all we need to do is capture it! Like the video says, […]
John Keane, CEO of SolarAid, reports back from his recent trip to visit Mandevu village, where we hope to run the pilot of Project Switch, in Malawi. His night walk reveals an incredible story of darkness, poverty and inspiring ingenuity which demonstrates the desperate need for light… Last week, I visited Mandevu village in Kasungu […]
SolarAid has once again won the Energy Globe award for our work in Malawi. Last year we won the award for developing the world’s most affordable solar light, the SM100, and for pioneering pay-as-you-go (PAYG) ownership schemes for affordable solar lights in rural Malawi. This is the third time SolarAid has won an Energy Globe award, the first […]
At SolarAid we have always been on a mission to make solar energy and lighting more affordable. We’ve sold almost 2 million little solar lights, we pioneered light libraries and Pay As You Go solar for people below the poverty line, and launched what was at the time, the World’s most affordable solar light. But despite this success, we need […]
In July 2017 SunnyMoney Malawi recruited a new super agent, Florence Muva. Florence had previously been selling small packets of water in the bus depot, but had seen the benefits of solar and the profits that could be made – her husband is an employee of SunnyMoney. She raised some capital herself and also obtained a […]
Last year in December John Landon bought a box of 24 SM100 lamps from SolarAid to take to Namibia in southwest Africa where roughly 25% of the 2.5 million population live in slums. Here he tells his story of working with the charity Home of Good Hope to rebuild homes and distribute solar lights to […]
Stanford Njuguna has just turned 18 and he is a Solar Champion. He recently returned from Moyale town on the Kenya/Ethiopia border, to deliver a consignment of solar lights. In 2011, Stanford, his mother and two siblings moved to Kinangop after being evicted from their home following ethnic clashes. Several months after moving, there was […]