SOLAR LAMP CHALLENGE; SENEGAL
PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED
Solar Lamps.
Learn more about the Solar Lamp Challenge and how these lamps create enormous benefits for developing world families.
DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION
ElleSolarie is the first women-led, pay-as-you-go clean energy distribution network in West Africa.
In Senegal, six million people live without electricity. 58% of the population is rural and the women in these communities suffer the most from energy poverty and the implicit time poverty. They rise with the sun, often completing up to 17 hours of domestic tasks each day, leaving very little opportunity for endeavors that could improve lives, including their own. What’s more, their sources of energy are often pollutant, dangerous, and costly.
Women entrepreneurs from rural communities in Senegal are being recruited and trained by ElleSolarie. They become business women in their own right, distributing much needed, cutting-edge clean energy solutions on affordable pricing plans to remote last mile communities.
ElleSolaire is about women helping women to help themselves with economic opportunity, while growing in confidence, dignity, and choice. It is also about helping their families and communities to tap into a life-changing energy source that is safe, clean, and plentiful: sunlight. Customers get to reduce costs, health risks, environmental damage, and time given to domestic tasks. Solar energy is a key source of poverty alleviation that also increases opportunity through communication, business and studies.
IMPACT TO-DATE:
55 women and youths trained
545 women benefiting economically
2,005 households connected to clean energy source
35,000 people benefiting from clean, safe light in their home and Health Clinic
18 off-grid Health Clinics electrified
2021-2025 SCALE-UP PLANS
350 women trained as clean energy managers
8,250 women benefiting economically
40,000+ households connected to clean energy source
335,000 people benefiting from clean, safe energy source in their home and/or Health Clinic
FOUNDING TEAM
Kelly Nwachuku Lavelle - Founder, Executive Director