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Energy is a human right.

Imagine for a moment what it would be like to live your entire life without electricity.

No lights at night, no radio or television, no cell phone or laptop, no Blackberry or iPod, to name but a few of the many things that we have come to take for granted in our daily lives here in the first decade of the 21st century.

In the industrialized world, we take electricity for granted. Flip a switch and there's light. But for 2 billion people in rural villages around the world, when night falls, so too does a curtain of darkness. What illumination there may be comes from the meager light of candles or smoky kerosene lanterns.

Electricity can do more than generate clean, bright light. It can also power the refrigerator storing vaccines in the regional clinics, the pump for drinking water in the village square, the drip irrigation systems in the fields to grow fruits and vegetables during the 6 month dry season, the computers in the district school, and the machines and tools used in a local micro-enterprise. Electricity is the power for development.

Grid power won't reach much of Africa and the developing world in our lifetimes. But the solar power solution can - and is.

2 BILLION PEOPLE - a quarter of humanity - live without electricity.

No Lights

No Water pumps

No Refrigerators

No Phones

No Radios

The use of solar energy can quickly and dramatically enhance the quality of life for people in rural areas.

$25 is the cost of a full lighting kit for a rural village home, school or clinic

$50 is the cost of a deep cycle battery to store electricity for use in the evenings

$100 is the cost of a solar lantern that will allow villagers portable light at night

$500 is the cost of a complete solar home system for one family

$1,000 is the cost to train local citizens to install and maintain solar home systems

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