Press Releases

SELF teams up with Partners In Health to power rural clinics in Lesotho, 2008
The Solar Electric Light Fund announces it will again team with Dr. Paul Farmer and Partners In Health, this time to bring the benefits of solar electricity to four rural health clinics in Lesotho, at Lebakeng, N'kau, Bobete, and Nohana. With solar power at work, AIDS treatment at these facilities can begin to shine.
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SELF teams up with Partners In Health to power rural clinics in Burundi, 2008
Working in tandem with Partners In Health, Burundi-based Village Health Works is striving to address this crisis in Kigutu, in extreme southern Burundi, through the construction of a modern health center that will ultimately serve 60,000 people who face endemic diseases such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. The center’s electricity will be provided by a long-lasting solar power system powered by the Solar Electric Light Fund.
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SELF to providing consulting services to Make it Right project in New Orleans, 2008
In 2008, Brad Pitt convened a group of experts in New Orleans to launch the building of 150 green affordable housing units to help victims of Hurricane Katrina. The Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF) is providing solar consulting services to help rebuild the Lower 9th ard.
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SELF bringing solar power to 44 villages in Benin's Kalalé district, 2007
The Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF) along with the Association pour le Developpement Economique, Social et Culturel de Kalalé (ADESCKA) and other local partners have proposed to facilitate the solar electrification of all 44 agricultural villages in the Kalalé District, Borgou Department, Benin. The project addresses the development priority area of agricultural development, although it also supports health, education, general economic development and community infrastructure.
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SELF powers rural clinics in Rwanda, 2007
The Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF) has taken up the challenge of solar electrification of Partners In Health’s (PIH) Rwandan health facilities. Established by Dr. Paul Farmer, Partners In Health is transforming healthcare for the world's poorest people. We are also working with Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, the Elisabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Initiative and the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund on several other health projects in Rwanda.
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SELF Named A Finalist for the 2002 Tech Museum of Innovation Awards, 2002
The Tech Museum Awards honor innovators and visionaries from around the world who are applying technology to profoundly improve the human condition in the categories of education, equality, environment, health, and economic development. Individuals, for-profit companies, and not-for-profit organizations are eligible.
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Vietnam Women's Union Wins Prestigious Energy Globe Award, 2002
The Energy Globe Award honours outstanding initiatives in the fields of energy efficiency and renewable energy sources from all over the world.   SELF is pleased to announce that our project partner, the Vietnam Women's Union, was awarded with the 2002 prize.
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SELF Brings Solar power and Satellite Internet Access to Brazilian Rainforest, 2002
In February 2002, SELF introduced solar power and satellite Internet access to the remote Xixuaú-Xipariná Ecological Reserve in the heart of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest.  The new system is designed to improve health, education, and economic opportunity for Caboclo Indians, and to strengthen scientific research in this fragile and important ecosystem.
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SELF Wins Global Green Environmental Award, 1998
The Green Cross Millennium Awards, established in 1996, recognize and herald those who embody the mission of  "fostering a global value shift toward a sustainable future."
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SELF Board Member, Freeman Dyson, Honored with Prestigious Templeton Award, 1999
Recipients of the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion represent a brilliantly diverse spectrum of disciplines, personalities, and spiritual backgrounds, yet they all share at least one thing in common: Each showed outstanding humanitarianism in their pursuits.
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A Solar Lighting Project Planned for the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan, 2000
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