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.
This Giving Tuesday, the Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF) invites you to join the movement to end energy poverty. For over 30 years, SELF has delivered solar powered solutions to communities who need it most. From landlocked African countries to remote island nations, SELF works around th...
As the climate crisis unfolds before our very eyes, alarming patterns are already emerging in Africa—and elsewhere through the world. Extreme weather events are becoming more common. Droughts are increasing in quantity and severity. Floods are bringing water but no relief. And these pattern...
SELF’s mission has long been to deliver solar energy solutions to rural and marginalized communities. What’s more important than the energy itself, however, is what it enables. Your support in 2021 meant that more families were fed, more children were vaccinated, and more women could earn an in...
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.