“It was not easy before, we used to use phones to screen patients in the out-patient department, now all the rooms are well lit making it easy,” Keith Samanata, Community Health Assistant of Miputu Health Post, Masaiti District. One year later, we visited these clinics to see how the solar systems were working and […]
“The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries.” This was said by Muhammad Yunus, the leading pioneer for modern microfinance. His work through the Nobel Peace Prize winning Grameen Bank has shown […]
PRESS RELEASE Statkraft intends to support SolarAid with donations totalling £2m over three years. 548 million people are living without electricity in sub-Saharan Africa, impacting their ability to learn, work and feel safe after dark. For the first time since 2013 the number of people who do not have access to electricity in sub-Saharan Africa […]
In 2015 the world committed to achieve 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) by 2030. Six years on, progress on SDG7 in Africa, which aims to “Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all”, is going in the wrong direction. For the first time since 2013, the number of people who have […]
This document covers SolarAid’s work on Light Libraries in Zambia and Malawi.
This document covers SolarAid’s work on Tackling solar electronic-waste in Zambia.
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 […]