A consolidated report of three market studies conducted in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania to examine how GVEP-International could work with Financial Institutions (FIs) and Micro and Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) so as to increase the access for investment finance and stimulate demand for energy products. It is part of a USAID funded Energy Sector Grants Program project.
Phyllis Kariuki, Kavita Rai et al
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This is an important
This is an important topic.
There is much need in many places and we have the technology to change things.
This video for an example is about growing food in the dry season in Benin. It
has helped the people to not only gain weight but nearly double their income.
This is not such a large project for a community.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTtBEbf-NRs
I believe that a collective Microfinance group effort is appropriate for this
size and larger projects. Biomass growing in addition to the Food Crop would
expand the Cash Flow. The Bioenergy from several processes in Distributed
Generation would make the new Rural Developments have 24/7 Renewable Energy
available and a low or negative carbon footprint in certain scenarios.
The Sustainable Energy Center of Excellence is one regional entity active in
this area. We have had a brief discussion with GVEP about collaboration.
Edom Development Group is a
Edom Development Group is a grass-root community Development Organization based at Oraukwu Town in Idemili North Local Government Area, Anambra State, Nigeria.
Its aim among others is to help alleviate poverty among poor households in our rural community and help to create sustainable means of livelihood for them.
We are currently working to promote the use and utilization of solar Energy and conservation to improve the environment, health, economic situation and to aggressively begin reducing global warning pollution in our rural community and advancing the widespread use of solar energy.
In our rural community, more than 30,000 poor households have no electricity source and those few that have, don’t have regular supply of electricity from the national grid and are forced to continue to rely on kerosene and wood for light and cooking, and therefore experiences numerous limitations at night time. Once the sun sets usually between 6 and 7 o’clock, the only source of light for these rural households is a dim kerosene lamp, producing health-hazardous smoke. At least every poor households families in our rural community burn more than 80 liters of kerosene a year to light their homes at night, and are forced to cook food inside, respiratory diseases caused by toxic smoke kill more than 500 women and children each year. Due to lack of light, social time, house work and further educational activities for the children are restricted in the evening. By substituting the poor kerosene lamps with strong solar powered LED lights, environmental,
social, health and economic benefits can be achieved.
The installation of photovoltaic cells on the roofs of these rural community households’ houses for electricity production will give them access to lighting and improve their livelihoods. The use of solar lighting instead of kerosene lamps has positive effects on people’s health and leads to reduction of green house gas emissions.
The project’s objective is to install solar technology for lighting and operation small household electricity equipment such as fan, Radio, charging phones, to 250 poorest of the poor households who are the most impoverished and earn less than $2 a day, which will collectively save about US $50,000 a year for the households, 20 youth will be trained on the use repair, maintenance and installation of solar home systems.
Our organization will open a solar sales center where different kinds of solar products differing in their power out put and application will be promoted and sold at affordable prices to the general public, to assure that every individual household finds a suitable lighting model for its need and its financial situation. The small portable solar lanterns will be sold directly by cash. Where as the solar home systems and other larger systems are sold by credit and may be paid back over a specified period of time. The solar sales centre is going to focus not only on selling the products, but also in installing the systems and setting up a customer service team to ensure that everything functions according to plan.
Our organization have obtained samples of solar lanterns products from D.light and Greenlight planet, and solar village lighting kits products from barefoot power pty Ltd, and have been tested to fit the lives of rural Nigerians.
Public awareness, introduction, promotion, training and dissemination of solar technology are components of the project. It will show people in largely rural communities how solar power works and how it can be used.
It will help to influence national and local policies towards renewable energy service provision to the poor and marginalized communities.
We are looking for funding to enable us implement this project. I would be grateful if you could link us to possible funding sources. I look forward to receiving your reply soonest.
Thank you for your co-operation.
Yours sincerely,
Julius O. Maduka
(Group Chairman)
Edom Development Group
Ibenabor Village, Oraukwu
P. O. Box 5136, Onitsha
Anambra State, Nigeria