Founded by Solarcentury in 2006, 5% of company profits go to SolarAid.
Solarcentury donated £125,000 worth of solar panels and cash to SolarAid in 2011 and hope to do the same in 2012. Read about where the money goes here. Find out how your business can have a huge impact in some of the poorest communities in the world through Solar Aid.
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Unlike most charities SolarAid works on the 'small is beautiful' theory, teaching entrepreneurs how to market solar products rather than handing out donations. And it's working: creating jobs, which reduce poverty, which improves education, whilst slowing carbon emissions. Since it was founded the charity has raised over £10 million for its work in Kenya, Zambia, Tanzania and Malawi.
SolarAid’s work has two main strands. One, to increase access to solar for schools in the developed world; the other to replace dangerous and expensive kerosene lamps with simple and affordable solar powered lights.
By training local business entrepreneurs, the ‘Sunny Money’ social enterprise programme has now sold 24,272 solar lights and trained over 800 business people, bringing clean power, more disposable income and an employment to many.
Adding gravitas to its power, in 2010 ‘The Solar Lamp’, as distributed by SolarAid, was chosen by The British Museum and the BBC as the object that defined the challenges of the modern day world, as part of the series ‘The history of the world in 100 objects”. Read more here.
It’s amazing how much good can come from sunshine!
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