- Senegalese company ElleSolaire uses solar energy to make health care more accessible and more productive in rural areas in the country.
- Over the course of the pandemic, the company has installed solar power and appliances in 23 clinics across the country.
- These off-grid solutions improve the quality of healthcare for women and decrease the risk associated with childbirth in remote areas.
Senegalese women-led company ElleSolaire is supplying remote health centre across the country with off-grid solar energy solutions. The company had earlier supplied solar panels to off-grid households, but with the pandemic, the company expanded its energy provision scope to include underequipped health clinics.
These solutions will help provide reliable, sustainable energy to health centres at night when it is needed. Clinic workers had initially performed crucial procedures with mobile phone light.
According to the company’s founder Kelly Lavelle, the move to health centres may have been necessitated by the COVID19 pandemic. Still, the company is really pleased to have managed to pivot this into an opportunity.”
The organization also provides women with skills that afford them better job opportunities in the renewable energy sector. Since the start of the pandemic, ElleSolaire has installed solar-powered appliances at 23 remote clinics.