Go East Young Man

EFO is branching out and heading on a two week trip to Kenya and Malawi. Although our focus is on West Africa, these two programmes are so important and aligned with our own goals that we decided to leave our home base.

We have been invited by the International Finance Corporation to attend the 2010 Lighting Africa Conference in Nairobi as a product judge. This is the third LA Conference and brings together most, if not all, of the major players working on finding lighting and other energy solutions for rural Africa. The last two events have been excellent and it is an incredible opportunity to meet with others working in the same field, get new ideas a see new products. http://www.lightingafrica.org/

From Nairobi we are off to Malawi to work with an organisation called Light Up Malawi, http://lightupmalawi.org/ Light Up Malawi is a young organisation like EFO and has similar goals and ideas about the potential of solar power in supporting rural Africa. We will be running some training sessions for communities they plan on working with and providing any support and advice we can along the way.

We will be posting photos and updates on the facebook page throughout the next two weeks. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=60927992298#!/group.php?gid=60927992298