In Mali, another school benefitted from a collective charging stations project in 2021. Thanks to a decentralised cooperation agreement between La Fouillouse, a French town, and Soufouroulaye, a Malian village, two stations were installed within the school, and a total of 80 LK3000 lamps were distributed to the pupils in their last year, who are preparing their final exam. This way, their learning conditions are improved. The equipment was secured in the building, and a teacher is in charge of putting the lamps on load and of distributing them to the children at the end of the day : a way to have a close follow-up and to insure the sustainability of the project. Indeed, lamps will be picked up and kept by the school before summer holidays, and then handed out again to the new pupils in their last year. That is why the equipment must last in time. In the same way, the twinning committee in La Fouillouse (France) organised a technical monitoring visit, which will be carried out by the Lagazel team in Mali in October, just before children go back to school, in order to analyse the situation. Up to now, no particular issue has been detected.
Update: following this first operation in February 2021, the project has expanded! Thanks to the good academic results achieved by the pupils benefiting from the lamps, the association wanted to equip more of them. In 2022, and again in 2023, new stations were installed. In all, 6 stations and 240 solar lamps are now in service in the area!
