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Marianne Mwale has been a laboratory technologist at St. Paul’s Mission Rural Health Centre in Zambia for three years. The laboratory, made up of two staff members analyse around 100 different tests a day and they use sophisticated equipment and instruments to identify results. The most demanded tests are the malaria rapid diagnostic test and […]

As 2017 comes to a close we want to send a big THANK YOU to all our supporters and everyone who has helped promote SolarAid and fundraised for us over the year. It’s been another eventful year and as we pass the winter solstice, with the shortest day of sunshine, it seems important to take stock, reflect […]

The following post is from Debbie and Robin Hill, two SolarAid supporters who have made several trips to Africa to support health and social care programmes.  My husband and I first visited Uganda in 2013 where we worked voluntarily as teaching assistants at a school established by a Ugandan man and English woman. Having researched solar lights on the […]

  We’d like to extend a huge warm sunny welcome to IndyCar driver and solar champion Stefan Wilson. Stefan is a thrill-seeker with a conscience. He made his IndyCar debut in 2013 off the back of a successful European karting and Junior Open-Wheel career, but it is his efforts off the track that have earned […]

As you are reading this, one more family’s life is brighter. Our team in Malawi is busy right now installing solar home systems in 500 houses, a whole village in Malawi, under our project ‘Light a Village’.   Since the announcement of the project, our team has been preparing for this day. Research has gone […]

SolarAid’s founding director and clean energy campaigner, Jeremy Leggett, has been awarded the highly prestigious Gothenburg Award for his work with solar energy. Jeremy set-up the UK’s leading solar company, Solarcentury, back in 1998 and drew plans to donate 5% of its net profit to a solar charity. In 2006 Solarcentury turned a profit and SolarAid was born. Under […]

  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, […]

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, but […]

  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 […]

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 […]