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  This document covers SolarAid’s work on Powering Healthcare in Zambia and Malawi.

  For rural health clinics in many parts of Africa, electricity is not being taken for granted. In sub-Saharan Africa, 3 in 4 health facilities are estimated to operate without reliable access to electricity. When the sun sets, clinics operate in darkness. Medical appliances are without power, laboratories are at a stand-still. At many clinics, […]

SolarAid is launching ‘Light a Village’ – a new game-changing initiative to implement a new commercial model that aims to reach 100% penetration of solar energy in a single, rural off-grid community in Malawi. The pilot is being launched and funded as a ‘Permission to Fail’ project by long-term supporters Dr. Ewan Kirk and Dr. […]

  Across sub-Saharan Africa, energy poverty disproportionately affects women and girls.  Because women and girls are the main users of energy in the home, a lack of access to clean and safe electricity means they are hit hardest by the effects of household air pollution which now kills more people globally than HIV, malaria and […]

  This Annual Report covers the financial year of 2019 as well as impact numbers and future plans.

Thanks to our incredible supporters, we have been able to deliver solar lights to rural health clinics. Babies can now be born into the world with safe light, and life-threatening procedures can be carried out by health professionals safely.  3 out of every 4 health facilities across sub-Saharan Africa are without access to reliable power. […]

  Malawi has again had to temporarily close schools as a consequence of the rapid spread of the COVID-19 virus and with the highly contagious South African strain now prevalent in the country. The implications of yet another school closure are dire and hitting the most marginalised children hardest. The schools are places to learn, […]

  Wires, cables, solder and other parts cover the desk as Jackson excitedly points to a tiny black square box among the busy electronic map on the green background of the Printed Circuit Board (PCB) of the disassembled solar light. “If we remove the connections from this (pointing to the box) from the rest of […]

Panaga School in Brunei has organised a Winter Market two years in a row to support SolarAid’s work. The school wanted the children to learn about the fact that over 1 billion people around the world do not have access to electricity. The children of P5 quickly engaged with this and their empathy grew, asking […]

  “I have always wanted to learn how to fix things, but lack of knowledge has always been a challenge”, customer in Zambia Clifford Namuswa is a farmer and a part-time HIV/AIDS counsellor who lives in Masuku, Zambia with his nine children. He was using kerosene and a torch on his phone for his lighting […]