An NGO to help Remote Village School Children with Solar Light

Around the world, international aid often misses remote underserved village communities who need them the most. According to statistics, some 1.6 million have no access to electricity, and the largest of these figures are the rural poor and their school children.

In response to such conditions affecting the night studies and other activities of school children in remote rural communities, World Partners for Development, an international 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization whose mission is to empowering populations in underserved communities, through high-quality programs that meet their real need to improve the quality of their lives, is partnering with remote rural communities in Ghana to provide solar light for school children to enhance their daily night studies, exams preparation, home work, and other educational programs.

In contrast to many other rural solar light projects, our village solar initiative program is to reach hard to reach remote communities. It also provides numerous health, educational, environmental, and other effective benefits, including, eliminating kerosene lanterns and wood fires that produce noxious fumes that are inhaled by such children thus causing health hazards to their lungs and eyes. It is estimated that, the noxious fumes from Kerosene lanterns and the can lanterns without shade (Bobo) has the same effect as cigarettes smoke. The project also improves education. Most school children in remote rural communities without electric light find it difficult to compete with their pears that can read more than three hours per night because of the availability of electricity. This proof is very obvious in many countries national examination results statistics. The project will also relief poor family members from the high expense of purchasing and transporting kerosene from long distance towns and cities.

As the project intends for communities who really need it, World Partners for Development is accessing remote communities with partner local NGOs for implementation and formation of community student study groups. The type of solar electric system for a community will depend on the community size its number of students. Solar Education Workshops will be organized to provide students with the skills and tools necessary to lead renewable energy projects in communities and also how to maintain them. To lean more, please contact World Partners for Development via www.wpdprojects.org.