On 28th February 2018, Solar for Peace Initiative, Kenya, lost one of its leading members. Lucy Njeri, fondly called Mama Solar, fell ill suddenly and died on arrival at the Kenyatta Hospital, Nairobi. Lucy was a natural convert to SolarAid’s mission to eradicate the kerosene lamp from Africa. She was also concerned that over 5 million households in Kenya […]
There are over 600 million people in Africa without access to electricity – SolarAid are working to fix that… Because no one should be left alone in the dark. If you like it, please share this little video to help spread the message…
Offset Solar is an American solar company with a purpose. They were founded with a very similar belief to SolarAid: that everyone should have access to safe, clean, renewable power. Founded in 2017, Offset is now a key partner of SolarAid and supports our work by making a contribution to our fundraising for each solar […]
In Malawi, women suffering from fistula are often ostracised from their communities. During the treatment period, at the Fistula Care Centre, women are introduced to various business ideas and are trained in business management to provide them with new skills and the ability to earn an income when they return to their communities. Freedom […]
What are you doing this Saturday 24 March from 8.30 until 9.30pm? Whatever it is, make sure you put down your fork, hairbrush or remote control and switch your lights off for Earth Hour. Every year millions of people, businesses and landmarks set aside an hour to host events, switch off their lights and make […]
Our sales officers sometimes have to brave very poor roads to reach rural communities living far away from towns in Uganda. People in these remote villages often rely on kerosene for lighting and spend a lot of money on transport to travel to trading centres to buy kerosene which is very expensive for them. However, our sales officers do […]
Bella is one of our youngest SolarAid fundraisers, choosing to go screen free (no TV, phone, tablet or laptop!) for 2 whole days to help other children to do their homework with safe light. She set a target of £70 – to which she donated £5 of her own money – smashing that by raising […]
Anger boiled over after a national blackout, which saw babies dying in incubators, yet outages are frequent—for the lucky 10 percent of people with electricity in Malawi. Rural health worker Patrick Kamzitu is relaxed about the long and frequent power cuts that plague Malawi and which recently almost brought it to a halt when the […]
At SolarAid our main focus is on getting solar lights to people in rural Africa, where there is no electricity. But people in African cities often suffer from similar frustrations because the African electricity grid is notoriously unreliable and, even in capital cities, daily rolling blackouts are a common occurrence. This week we heard from one […]
Twenty five years is a long time for an idea to come to fruition, but we finally got there: SolarAid’s partners Lloyd’s of London have agreed to divest from coal because of climate change. This is excellent news – but it comes a couple of decades too late. Our Founder and Chair, Jeremy Leggett, first presented the case for […]