Project in an unknown land! For the first time, the Lagazel stations sailed to Guinea Bissau, and more precisely, to the Bijagos archipelago. 4 villages of these particularly isolated islands benefited from a charging station as well as about 40 lamps. Installed at the school when the locality had one, or at a trusted actor of the community’s house, the equipment was adopted by the inhabitants who shared the lamps between them in good understanding in order to obtain an equitable distribution according to the needs of each one. For each station, a person in charge was appointed within the village. This project was made possible by Free Salsa, a dance company that has been using its profits to carry out humanitarian and development projects for many years. In cooperation with the local NGO Escama for this operation, several representatives of the company were able to go to the site to install the equipment. To transcribe this mission, a very nice video was made (that you can find available only in French here).
8 months after the first mission, the company Free Salsa has launched the second act of the project: two additional charging stations have been delivered to the Bijagos archipelago, and 110 additional LK3000 solar lamps have been distributed among the inhabitants. Each lamp in the community is assigned to a family, whose name is written directly on the lamp to ensure better traceability. The next step would be to succeed in setting up a system of contributions: the sensitization of the beneficiaries is in progress so that an organization can be set up to take charge of future maintenance costs.
Photos ©Free Salsa
