Educational Benefits
- Teach Africans the importance of electricity and how it can improve their lives.
- Increased access to clean light for night-time study leads to better student performance.
- The use of solar as a preventive measure against the upswing in dorm fires in recent years.
Health Benefits
- Clean water at health facilities means decreased incidence of waterborne diseases.
- Access to electric diagnostic tools that require batteries/recharging or outlets.
- Refrigeration of vaccines.
- Operation of laptops to monitor case loads and to access the internet.
Economic Benefits
Economic Benefits
- Cost savings due to not having to purchase paraffin (kerosene) for lanterns.
- Dependable, free power even in areas where grid power is available but unreliable and very expensive.
- Generate small cash flow by providing cell phone charging and other small services.