Our Awards and Affiliations
"Without electricity, my ideas cannot be implemented, so electricity is the beginning of everything for me. I want to help the village by starting businesses and creating jobs. In entrepreneurship, I experience independence and self-determination and that is very important to me."
Nassou, Mali
About Sustainably Empowering People Globally
The Need in Africa
600 million
people in sub-Saharan Africa have no access to electricity
51%
of the rural population in sub-Saharan Africa have no access to clean water, exacerbating health challenges and contributing to waterborne diseases
40%
of the fruit and vegetable harvest in sub-Saharan Africa goes to waste because of no refrigeration, depriving farmers of valuable income
71%
of sub-Saharan Africa does not have reliable Internet access, contributing to a widening digital divide. Lack of access to the Internet limits educational opportunities, economic growth, and global participation for these communities.
Our Mission
We fund solar-powered electricity using green technologies to empower communities in Sub-Saharan Africa with a comprehensive approach to sustainable development.
By leveraging electrification through mini-grids and green technologies provided by our partners, such as Africa GreenTec, our goal is to address critical renewable electricity needs such as reliable solar-powered refrigeration, desalination, water purification, water pumps, street lighting, and individual power grid boxes.
Our work actively shifts the narrative, emphasizing the inherent capability of African communities to drive their own progress. We position ourselves as supporters of each community's initiatives, recognizing people's potential to effect positive change. Everything we do ensures that the traditions and cultures of each community in which we work is preserved.
Our Successes
To date, we have completed 24 ImpactSite installations across sub-Sahara Africa that have achieved the following:
61,597 people have been provided with electricity
989 entrepreneurs have started businesses
3,907 tons of CO2 have been avoided
One of Our Partners
Africa GreenTec (AGT) is one of our partners that provides sustainable solar-powered technology to sub-Saharan African communities we support. The company empowers communities through educational initiatives and sustainable humanitarian support. Their goal is to promote self-reliance by providing capacity-building programs in areas such as entrepreneurship, energy and agriculture.
AGT collaboratively promotes mutual learning and a community-based approach to sustainable development. As a social enterprise, they act on an equal footing with their customers. Their prices and wages are adapted to the respective local conditions and calculated in such a way that an ImpactSite can be operated and maintained as economically and self-sufficiently as possible. In this way, they ensure that their projects do not fail after a few years, but are sustainable in every sense.