KARIBU Solar PowerProduces modular solar lamps and mobile phone chargers.
The modular solar lamp consists of a solar panel, a rechargeable battery or mobile phone charger and a light. Users buy the battery and the light components and pay for the solar panel in small increments. After just a few weeks, they own the solar panel and can charge the battery on their own. KARIBU Solar Power’s “rent-to-own” programme and “pay per charge” model replicate the cash flow for buying kerosene. Costs to users are under USD 1 a day, making the lamp affordable for the 500+ million Africans.
Partners
Foundation for Sustainable Enterprise and Development is a Canadian NGO which supports sustainable development, wealth creation and poverty alleviation, providing grounded action research, education and shared learning.
Kidogo Early Childhood Development is working to offer high-quality childcare to families living at the bottom of the economic pyramid through a network of day-care centres. The enterprise’s solar lamps will be distributed via Kidogo’s centres, providing affordable solar power to its beneficiaries.
Positive Innovation for the Next Generation (PING) is a youth-led organisation that implements health or youth-related technology projects on the ground, along with intensive high schoolage and college IT mentorship programs.
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Supporters
The 2013 SEED Awards in Ethiopia, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania and Uganda are supported by the European Union, which is made up of 28 Member States who have decided to gradually link together their know-how, resources and destinies.
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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
