ReadyPay brings clean energy to Ugandan rural customers
“I used to walk long distances to charge my phone. Sometimes it would not get full, or they would even steal the battery,” says Christine Nabatanzi, a teacher living in Njerere, in rural Uganda. “As a teacher, it was also difficult for me to mark the books for my pupils without any lights in the evening. Even my children could not read their books. We were literally living in the dark.”
In Uganda, 85% of the people do not have access to the electricity grid. These rural customers use as primary energy source for lighting kerosene, d cell batteries or candles. They also use wood and charcoal primarily for cooking.
ReadyPay is a solar home system that enables the customer to get off of old lining technology like kerosene, candles, or d cell batteries and move on to use a clean reliable lighting source and phone charging source.
Client: International Telecommunications Union (ITU)
Services: Research and find story ideas, video production and photography
Year: 2018