- AMADE launches energy to project for Senegalese children
- The organisation aims to provide solar lamps for over 2,000 people.
- The project is supported by Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation and Banque CMB Monaco.
The World Association of Children’s Friends (AMADE), chaired by Princess Caroline of Hanover, has launched a project in Senegal to improve children’s access to energy. Each year, nearly 10 million children in Africa are born into homes without electricity, having no light to study by after dark. This problem results in even more inequalities.
Nearly 2,000 children in the Richard Toll areas of northern Senegal will access individual solar lamps thanks to AMADE’s “Energy of Hope” program. Each light presents four additional hours of study time per day for each child. The lamps will be available to children through an energy kiosk distribution network in their villages and schools. Local women will run the network, which will be in charge of sales (a pay-as-you-go service) and public awareness. Furthermore, 10,000 villagers should be able to benefit from the goods and services offered by these energy kiosks.
The ‘Le Partenariat’ NGO, which now has support from the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation and Banque CMB Monaco, is implementing this project on the ground. AMADE hopes that by completing the project, they will determine whether and how the target populations have access to energy and digital technology and meet their basic needs.