Under the four-year Energy2Equal initiative, launched in partnership with the Government of Canada, IFC partners with renewable energy companies including ElleSolaire to expane women’s access to jobs, leadership positions and entrepreneurial opportunities within the renewable energy space. By 2040, renewable energy could provide more than 40 percent of all power generation capacity...
The Blues du Fleuve Festival takes place in Podor, Senegal on 6-8 December 2019. It is organised by the renowned singer and guitarist Baaba Maal to celebrate the people of his native region and encourage the growth of local communities in alignment with sustainable development. ElleSolaire is excited to announce...
Tu as vu ? Je suis devenue femmes d’affaires So you see, I have become a business woman and I am proud of it because I have always wanted to show that with hard work, women are just as capable as men. Khady Sarr is an entrepreneur with ElleSolaire selling...
Women Bring Energy In the green rolling hills of Plateau State in central Nigeria, power lines are few and far between. Nanbet, a formidable young woman, lives here, farming and raising five children on her own. She grows potatoes, maize and beans. And now, after training and support, she is...
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...
