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Meatu, Africa
A clean and sustainable source of energy
Project overview
• Connect 1500 households in thirteen communities in Meatu to solar energy.
• In around 2013, forty women will have set up a solar panel business in Meatu.
• They will include twenty young starters.
• In around 2013, forty women will have set up a solar panel business in Meatu.
• They will include twenty young starters.
Project description
The challenge
When there is no power, children cannot do their homework in the evenings. Their schoolwork suffers because of this. Sometimes kerosene is the only source of energy. But burning it is very bad for people’s health.
The changers
In 2008 ICS started a project for making a new and clean source of energy available in Meatu and Suba. ICS enabled women from the community to learn how to build, repair and maintain solar panels.
When there is no power, children cannot do their homework in the evenings. Their schoolwork suffers because of this. Sometimes kerosene is the only source of energy. But burning it is very bad for people’s health.
The changers
In 2008 ICS started a project for making a new and clean source of energy available in Meatu and Suba. ICS enabled women from the community to learn how to build, repair and maintain solar panels.
The change
Eight women built workshops in their villages with a loan from ICS. Now their fellow countrymen can buy solar panels there – for lighting, for instance, or for charging mobile telephones and radios.
A few results:
• 312 households use solar power.
• Two workshops have been opened.
• Around one thousand solar panels have been installed by now.
• Villages pay the equivalent of € 5.34 per month for two solar energy lamps.
• The female entrepreneurs save and use this money for maintenance and purchase of parts.
Eight women built workshops in their villages with a loan from ICS. Now their fellow countrymen can buy solar panels there – for lighting, for instance, or for charging mobile telephones and radios.
A few results:
• 312 households use solar power.
• Two workshops have been opened.
• Around one thousand solar panels have been installed by now.
• Villages pay the equivalent of € 5.34 per month for two solar energy lamps.
• The female entrepreneurs save and use this money for maintenance and purchase of parts.
