Sponsored by Wärtsilä corporation, in partnership with Autodesk Foundation and in cooperation with World Vision Finland (Weconomy program) and World Vision Kenya, this project enabled solar entrepreneurship in high-impact areas where people are in dire need of a clean and affordable energy solution in the Great Lake area.
World Vision Finland has a program named Weconomy, created to facilitate the synergy between impact business and field constraints. In 2016, we have decided to work with that program and we started with two GoSol SOL5 units built locally and installed at local communities in Kisumu.
Since then, our SOL5 Oven is helping the Koptige Bakery, a local community owned business that was suffering from the unreliable and costly power supply. Koptige Bakery are hard workers, very entrepreneurs people, very enthusiastic about the positive impact of the SOL5.
Another SOL5 Roaster was installed at Yier Ngima’s women’s cooperative to roast peanut, saving them money that before they spent on charcoal.
In 2017, we were back in Kenya, following up with 9 additional SOL5 in the Kisumu region to pilot additional applications of our technology and empower more and more entrepreneurs. Koptige Bakery and Yier Ngima’s women’s cooperative got additional machines, while Misire group got an oven and Bao Beach community a fish dehydrator.
In the Kakuma region, entering for the first time in a refugee camp hosting more than 150 000 inhabitants appeared to be a complex process requiring the cooperation of many actors. After our presentation at UNHCR compound, we have started the discussions to work more closely with refugees and our machine went to a local community of bakers, Ana Group.
Impact: in 2017, 9 additional were machines installed in 2 Kenya and Tanzania, 54 entrepreneurs were trained in different communities of entrepreneurs, 134 tons of yearly CO2 saving and our demos events reached over 2000 people. Data and economics collection is ongoing during all 2018.
Watch below a 11 minutes recap of our actions in Kenya and Tanzania. Here a shorter presentation of the same achievements.
Here Wärtsilä’s video about their sponsorship.
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