Solar Aid

This is just a fantastic idea and one we're happy to be associated with. My wish now is to get solar kits to each of our hosts, as well as the ArrowWeb Community Hospital, currently supported as an online-managed NABUUR village.


As written on Solar-Aid's website, here's a few things you might not know:

1. The
   earth receives more energy from the sun in just one hour than the world
   uses in a whole year.
   
2. Two billion people in the world
   have no access to electricity.
   
3. Building a small solar charger for a radio can
   cost around £5 and can sell for three times the price in Africa .. Solar Aid help to set up small solar
   businesses so people can earn a living.
4. Most
   rural poor in Africa use kerosene lamps, which are heavily polluting in
   CO2 and bad for their health, but a solar lamp would be cheaper and
   better for the environment.
5. Solar panels are guaranteed typically for 25 years and have a life expectancy of at least 50 years.
6. Africa has the
   lowest fossil energy use of any world region, yet the continent is the
   most vulnerable to climate change. Signs of a changing climate have
   already emerged there: disease and melting glaciers in the mountains,
   rising temperatures in drought-prone areas, and sea-level rise and
   coral bleaching along the coastlines.
7. Respiratory diseases
   caused by toxic smoke from cooking fires kill 1.5 million women and
   children each year. Yet a solar cooker, which is much safer, can be
   easily built from cardboard and waste reflective material.

Visit the website for further info.