Solar Home Lighting to poor villagers in Rajasthan

The donations raised through the Global Giving have allowed SED to greatly expand our program ‘Solar Home lighting to poor villagers of Rajasthan’. We give our sincere thanks to all of you who are supporting our work and helping families to have light in their homes.

With the funds received so far, we have been able to purchase 50 solar lighting systems. The ststem consist of Solar Panel, A bettery, converter, 2 LED bulbs of 5 W and mobile phone charging facility. Once fully charged these 2 LED bulbs can give light upto seven hours.

Out of these so far 29 systems are installed at the homes of poor people in villages of Digod, Kasampura and Parlia of Kota district in Rajasthan. They are installed free of cost at present and amount of $ 5 per month will be collected for 10 months towards 50% cost of the system. This reduction has enabled many village families to purchase the system. They simply could not come up with the money to invest in these systems at the original price, which was at our cost. During April and May we held campaign in these villages. Our survey indicated that this was the price where most people could afford the systems. 

The SED through its GVK developed demonstration centre to step up our efforts to reach as many villagers as possible. We have identified 10 larger villages, that we can cater on a regular basis in an effort to educate as many villagers as possible. Our staff is going to schools, market places and religious institutions to spread the word about the solar lights. These lights are an ideal first solar product for the rural populations since they are about the lowest cost way to get high-quality solar LED light along with mobile phone chargers.

The SED staff and all of the villagers we serve thank you very much for your support.