D.Light: Solar lamps for students

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The Dar es Salaam based social venture company D.Light ltd. had a plan to distribute ten thousand solar re-chargeable lamps to secondary schools students and teachers in Tanzania, so as to provide them with an affordable, clean and healthy source of light. Twaweza found the technological intervention compelling; several studies have shown that access to clean, reliable light can improve learning and reduce illness, and the solar lamps would also help reduce carbon emissions and make light more affordable in the medium to long term. But with over a million students, ten thousand lamps would ... Read more...