Pilot Program: Pay As You Go Solar Lanterns

by EcoEnergyFinance
Pilot Program: Pay As You Go Solar Lanterns

Project Report | Feb 19, 2014
Pay As You Go

By Shazia Khan and William Thompson | Executive Director

EcoEnergy has recently launched new payment plans to afford the opportunity for thousands of working poor in rural Pakistan to purchase low cost and reliable solar lanterns and phone chargers for their homes and businesses. Our new payment plans have been greeted with much pleasure by individuals who can now finally afford to purchase safe and reliable energy at low monthly cost. These lanterns provide light that will empower these people to be able to work into the night, study for school and have healthier and safer homes and businesses. In the last quarter, we have sold hundreds of lanterns on credit and have slowly begun to realize the return of investing in the people of Pakistan. The pay as you go plan has proven to be successful, however we would like to improve our processes of collecting monthly payments.

 

EcoEnergy is looking to improve our offerings by adding state of the art pay-for-use solar lanterns and solar home systems to our product line. These new products allow the user to pay for only the amount of light and cell charge that they need on a month-by-month basis. Because we are a smaller organization, it is difficult to gather the necessary funds to invest in such products. In order to do bolster our product line, we need to raise the capital to invest in these technologies that will help change the lives of thousands for the lowest cost possible while allowing us to reach more villages.

 

With your donation, you will be investing in our social enterprise to assist in creating opportunity and healthier and greener lives for those who otherwise would not be able to afford it. Whatever margin we make, we will be re-investing into the Pakistani people.

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Shazia Khan
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Shazia Khan
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