SOLAR LAMP CHALLENGE; ZAMBIA
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
SolarPoint distributes solar lamps through agricultural cooperatives and savings groups.
The SolarPoint model reaches rural farmers through the point of contact for inputs and market linkages, farmer cooperatives and savings groups, and uses a crops-for-lights model to provide farmers with much needed energy access and market linkage for their produce.
SolarPoint was founded by Laurence Wamulume Beele and Michael Kwibisa Masupelo.
PILOT AND SCALING GOALS
Distribute 420 solar lamps during the pilot, reaching 2,100 beneficiaries
Raise an additional $25,000 during the pilot
Reach 10,000 beneficiaries by the end of year 1
Reach 30,000 beneficiaries by the end of year 2
FOUNDING TEAM
Wamulume Laurence Beele - Co-founder, Innovation Lead
Michael Kwibisa Masupelo - Co-founder, Commercial Lead