The “From Waste to Light” program, launched in 2020 with our partner Moi Jeu Tri, has made new beneficiaries. The activities were replicated in a new town: Togoville (Vo 2), in 2022 and again in 2023. In 2022, 4 collective charging stations were installed in the principal’s office of a public elementary school with several hundred pupils. 160 LK1500 solar lamps were distributed. In 2023, 2 new stations (with 80 lamps) were added as part of a new replication, in a new school selected by the program.
The beneficiaries are children who do not have access to electricity at home: in return, they are asked to collect their household waste at home, and sort it using the bins set up for this purpose at the school. This waste is then recycled to raise funds for the purchase of additional lamps and maintenance activities. These activities can be carried on site, without delay, thanks to a training course organized for a local team (Moi Jeu Tri and town hall staff), equipped with components and tools to enable them to work independently. The association emphasizes that this new project presents a more accomplished model than its predecessors, with beneficiaries selected on the basis of access to energy rather than school results, or even no selection at all (one lamp for each child)!
