For 35 years, SELF has worked to bring clean energy to off-grid and energy poor communities. We believe a brighter future is possible, for both people and the planet. By drawing on clean solar energy, we can fight climate change and unlock lasting progress against...
Across the globe, communities are using solar energy to power resilience, opportunity, and hope—and your support makes it possible. The Solar Electric Light Fund’s 2024 Annual Report highlights how solar energy is changing lives in meaningful, lasting ways. Families...
In 2023, SELF developed new technologies and programs that expand our global understanding of energy. It’s not just the lights overhead; it’s health, safety, opportunity, and prosperity. A new microgrid connects rural people to legal aid. A solar cooking program...
Thanks to your support, SELF’s projects touched even more people in 2022. From solar cooking to solar water pumping to solar vaccine refrigeration and more, our work spanned a wide range of impact areas—showing the many ways in which solar energy can improve lives....
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...
Dear Friends, It is a pleasure to share SELF’s 2020 Annual Report with you all—a year of extraordinary challenges brought on by COVID-19. I applaud the SELF staff and our project partners from their determination to fulfill their commitments to each other. As a...
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