A lengthy dry season makes growing food in northern Benin incredibly difficult. SELF's Solar Market Garden combines solar-powered pumps with drip irrigation to enable year-round food production.
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Vaccine refrigerators, medical equipment, and water purification systems can’t run without access to electricity.
Solar-powered pumps ensure clean water delivery and can be combined with drip irrigation for food production.
Lights, computers, and internet connectivity reduce the barriers to students pursuing an education.
Electricity equips entrepreneurs with tools to jumpstart small business operations, creating more robust local economies.
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Solar-powered water pumps provide communities in Benin with clean drinking water, eliminating waterborne illness and the need to walk miles each day for water collection, a burden that typically falls on women and girls.
SELF works with its Ugandan partner, the Rape Hurts Foundation, to reduce instances of sexual violence and support survivors through improved access to lighting and other resources.
New initiative equips women with entrepreneurial skills in clean cooking and business management JINJA, Uganda, November 18, 2024 – The Solar Cooking Program trains women in Uganda to become culinary entrepreneurs. An initiative of the Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF), the ...
A new SELF documentary explores how solar electricity is helping underserved people get justice in Uganda. In the rural Kole District, electricity is hard to come by. This means streets go unlit at night, community services are under-resourced, and citizens have little means of accessing infor...
In 2015, the United Nations released the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—a set of 17 environmental and humanitarian priorities to be achieved by 2030. These include objectives such as ending hunger (SDG 1), achieving universal education (SDG 4), and fighting climate change (SDG 13). ...
SELF is a global leader in the fight against energy poverty. Since 1990, we’ve pioneered unique applications for solar energy, powering progress on food security, health care, education, gender equity, and more.
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