malawi039s solar power revolution starts by bringing schoolchildren out of the dark /

Published at 2015-08-11 09:00:09

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Lamps if by a Guardian-reader supported fund are brightening prospects for teachers as well as pupils in country where 90% of people live off-gridYoung Kennedy is astonished. His face lights up in the single room in the straw-thatched house. So does the book he is reading with his friend, Nellie.
The two excited nine-year-olds from the
village of Gumbi in western Malawi have just done what approximately 600 million others in sub-Saharan Africa have never been able to execute – switch on an electric light in their homes to read a book in the dark.
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Source: theguardian.com

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