The Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF) is a cutting-edge, independent not-for-profit organization that designs and implements sustainable energy solutions for enhancements in health, education, agriculture and economic growth in the developing world.
The Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF) is fighting climate change and global poverty with solar power. With your help families can lift themselves out of poverty by having clean, safe water to drink; food to eat; vaccinations to prevent disease; light to study and work by; computers at school to help them learn; and power to increase their income. Change a village ... Change the world.
SELF works to deliver solar power and wireless communications to rural villages in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. SELF facilitates a new generation of "whole village" solar electrification projects to power water pumping and purification, drip irrigation, health clinics (including vaccine refrigeration), schools, household and community lighting, and income-generating micro-enterprises that can be scaled up through the private sector or through public/private partnerships. Working with government, industry and non-governmental organization partners, SELF has facilitated solar electricity projects in more than 15 countries, including Bhutan, Benin, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Navajo Nation, Nepal, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Rwanda, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Vietnam. In many of the countries in which SELF works, there is no other organization undertaking a similar, independent role in providing power to villages without existing resources.
SELF also provides carbon offset services for businesses, NGOs and special events.
Her Majesty Queen Noor presented the King Hussein Leadership Prize to Robert A. Freling, executive director of the Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF), at the Aspen Institute Energy and Environment Awards in Aspen, Colo. Each year the prize is awarded to an individual, institution or group who has demonstrated exceptional humanitarian leadership in promoting sustainable development, human rights, equity, and peace.
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