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Costing the Earth Electrifying Africa: Beyond the Grid Off-Grid Africa

Solar Lights are lighting parts of Africa that are off-grid

  • The kerosene lamp
  • Travelling to Kericho
  • Dusk in Kericho
  • The sun setting in Kericho
  • Children doing their homework
  • Solar power lighting the night
  • Tea Plantations in Kericho
  • Phone charging kiosks
  • A kerosene kiosk
  • Electricity is missing in many parts of Africa
  • Tom shelters from the sun
  • A box of micro-solar lights
  • The Solar Roller
  • Lights being given out
  • Teachers gather to hear about the solar lights
  • Young children look on in wonder
  • Headteachers learn about the Solar Lights
  • A teacher receives his lights
  • School Children at Kembu Primary School
  • Tom at Kembu Primary School
  • Stan the 'Solar Man' at Kembu Primary School

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  • Costing the Earth—Electrifying Africa: Beyond the Grid

    Solar lamps are lighting parts of Africa the grid cannot reach. Tom Heap investigates.

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