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Household Solar Lighting, Zambia
Over 600,000 solar lights distributed
Since 2021, this project has brought clean, reliable lighting to households without electricity, directly improving quality of life for thousands of families.
Over 10,000 tonnes of CO2e avoided
By replacing kerosene lamps and open-fire lighting, the project cuts harmful emissions while reducing fuel costs for low-income households.
Enhancing education and wellbeing
Distributed through schools and community centres, solar lights enable children to study safely at night, supporting health, learning, and social development.
Household Solar Lighting - plays a pivotal role in reducing poverty, enhancing educational opportunities, and improving family health by providing solar lighting devices to families within Zambia. By providing solar powered devices, the reliance on kerosene is reduced significantly, cutting down on the ongoing costs associated with fuel for the economically disadvantaged, as well as avoiding the associated emissions from fuel combustion that would have otherwise occurred in the home.
Since its inception in 2021, the initiative has successfully distributed over 600,000 solar lights across Zambia, and avoided over 10,000 tCO2e of emissions that would have otherwise been created. Via the revenue generated from carbon credits, the distribution of lights have been able to be subsidised, removing the primary obstacle to the widespread adoption of clean technology among those who benefit most - its affordability.
By channelling distribution through schools and community centres, the project ensures that children have access to bright, clean, and safe lighting for night-time reading and studying.
One of the first and most significant projects of its kind, preventing kerosene combustion, reducing household spending on lighting fuel and batteries, and extending children's study hours, this project aims to have a significant impact in breaking the poverty cycle within the region.
UN Sustainable Development Goals met by this project:
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