Keeling Curve

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WATTS On Lighting Students lives is a solar lamp delivery and education monitoring program.  We identify vulnerable students in off-grid schools and deliver the program to grades 5-9, which includes sensitization and information session with the parents and teachers present.  We will deliver the program to 15,000 students in 2025 and aim to reach 1M students by 2030.  We are confident we can do this with our program partner ChildFund Africa.  Once solar lamps are distributed we monitor the impact on educational performance and collect data to report on our impact. We do interviews and research in the communities to learn about the impacts at home.

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Our project reduces the use of kerosene and wood, cut from nearby forests which is burned in the homestead for cooking and light.

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We work with students from Semi-nomadic and pastoralist communities that live without access to lighting at home and we select those that have none to limited access at school also.  The most vulnerable.  We work with people of color, women, and those living in arid regions and vulnerable communities. This is part of the selection process when choosing the schools to work with.

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The econic earth foundation was founded to advance the protection and preservation of the earth’s natural environment with renewable energy solutions and maintain a healthy and balanced eco-system for many generations to come.

The WATTS On Lighting Students Lives Program works to empower students living off-grid with light.

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