Over 100 years ago, women’s suffrage advocated that women should have the right to vote. Today, through the #PoweringJobs campaign, we are now advocating for more local and gender inclusive energy workforces to bring energy access to villages. After several years of informal collaboration, ElleSolaire and SolarAid are officially partnering...
The ElleSolaire 6-month pilot is now complete and there are more than 3500 people in rural Senegal, in the region of Fatick to be exact, who now have reliable sustainable light in their homes. Quite a result! For the first time ever, less than 1 billion people worldwide are without...
At ElleSolaire, we are honoured to be distribution entrepreneur winners in the D-Prize Global Competition. D-Prize expands access to poverty-alleviation interventions in the developing world, supporting social entrepreneurs who start new ventures that distribute proven life-enhancing technologies to those who need it most, the millions of people living in extreme...
The women of ElleSolaire in rural Senegal are now active and proving that clean energy entrepreneurship can make a difference. Many women of rural Senegal have no electricity, but they are drawing on a vital energy of their own and that of the omnipresent sunshine, to improve the lives of...
Fatou lives in a village called Sakagne, in the Saloum region of Senegal. She is 33 years old, is married to Cheikh, and has seven children between 2 and 17 years of age. She is the first to wake in the morning just after 5am. She must get the fire started in...
Awa is 32 years-old and also lives in Sakagne, Senegal. She was married Cheikh two years ago and now has an eighteen month-old boy. As Cheikh’s second wife, Awa is Fatou’s co-spouse. Awa still lives in her family compound but is soon intended to join her husband. As is customary...
Khadi is 13 years old. She is the daughter of Cheikh and Fatou and has two older brothers and four younger brothers and sisters. Khadi is very happy that her father agreed for her to stay on at school. She attends the local elementary school, which is two kilometres away...
