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.
Access to energy:
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 pumping stations provide communities in the Kalalé District of Benin with clean drinking water, reducing the risk of waterborne illness and eliminating the need for women and girls to walk miles each day for water collection.
SELF and its Ugandan partner, the Rape Hurts Foundation use solar solutions to mitigate incidents of sexual violence against women and girls who must leave their villages in search of water and firewood, making them vulnerable to predators.
Vaccines are an essential tool for global health. Vaccination not only protects the individual but also helps limit disease spread. Developing and manufacturing vaccines is a complex undertaking, yet it’s only half the equation. Vaccines also need to be delivered to the patient in a way tha...
Gorudubu! By Elizabeth Wilder Joy may not be the first word that springs to mind when Westerners think about electrical power, but gorudubu (“joy” in the Bariba language) describes the feelings of the 40,000 adults and children benefiting from a new solar energy project ...
Roughly one billion people live without access to electricity today, the vast majority in rural villages. This limits nearly every aspect of human health and wellbeing. From improving food security to advancing medical care, the benefits of electrification are vast. But what does it take to e...
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