Projects
- Acumen
- Catalyse Change CIC
- COOPI
- Empower Malawi
- FINCA UK
- Francesca Rava Foundation
- Give Power
- Istituto Oikos
- Makomborero
- One Tree Planted
- Pop Fuel Bank
- Renewable World
- Solar Aid Syria
- Solar Aid Uganda
- COVID-19 - The Akshaya Patra Foundation
- COVID-19 - Associazione La Rotonda
- COVID-19 - Give Power
- COVID 19 - Finca UK
- COVID-19 - Open Kitchens
- COVID-19 - Paddington Academy
- COVID-19 - Intrecci Cooperativa Sociale
- COVID-19 - Solace Women's Aid
- COVID-19 - Solar Aid
Solar Aid Uganda
Location: Uganda
Solar Aid is an international charity founded by Jeremy Leggett in 2006 with over 10 years’ experience of working to deliver solar lighting to the developing world. They provide access to solar lights in Uganda, Malawi, and Zambia to help catalyse solar markets and eradicate the kerosene lamp.
In 2018, NextEnergy Foundation funded the provision of SM100 solar lights to Bidi Bidi, the largest refugee camp in Northern Uganda. The camp was opened in 2017 and is currently home to approximately 270,000 Sudanese refugees. Sudan’s civil war has been ongoing since 2013 and, according to Global Conflict Tracker (2020), almost 2.5 million refugees and asylum-seekers are estimated to have fled the country. The introduction of solar lights in Bidi Bidi has helped families to survive, and children to continue studying, in the camp which they now call their home.