| Project | Location | Client |
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Solar Hybrid Power for Rural School Electrification |
Tanzania, Africa |
Kisokwe Primary School |
Kisokwe village is located in Mazae Ward, Mpwapwa District, Dodoma Region, Tanzania. Dodoma Region is centrally positioned on the Tanzanian mainland. Kisokwe Primary School, which educates about 800 pupils, is the public primary school in Kisokwe village and faces major challenges in its facilities and infrastructure. Among the challenges are a lack of electricity in the school and teacher/staff quarters and no integration of computers and technology in the curriculum delivery. The lack of electricity directly inhibits the effective learning and education of the children. Safety during after-dark hours and extracurricular and after-school offerings are also jeopardized by the lack of lighting and electricity.
With electricity, schools can integrate information, communications, and technology in the delivery of their curriculums, offer adult education after school hours, provide lighting to classrooms, staff offices, and teacher housing, and offer an energy station to the community to allow them to use the electricity for phone charging and other productive uses. While the school is not far from electrical lines, Kisokwe Primary School has received no funding over the years to connect to them. It became important to install a solar-powered system that provides clean energy at a cheaper rate. Many public primary schools, like Kisokwe Primary School, aim to install these kinds of systems to harness the abundant power of the sun to provide electricity for the school.