# IWIN (It Works In Nigeria)
Friday, January 3, 2020
Repurposing, recycling and rethinking power access
# IWIN (It Works In Nigeria)
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Solar
Jooce as a social enterprise deploys functional solar solutions using
recurring themes of re-purposing, recycling and rethinking everyday
appliances. In this case a photography soft-box lamp holder was
repurposed to provide delivery room "theater lights" to medical
personnel in a severely deprived off-grid Primary Healthcare Center
(PHC) using inverterless 12 volt solar power. Medical hands can now
better focus on medicine in harsh and deprived environments. Our value
proposition at Solar Jooce is frugal social innovation, not engineering.
# IWIN (It Works In Nigeria)
# IWIN (It Works In Nigeria)
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- Solar Jooce (www.solarjooce.com)
- Established in February 2008, Solar Jooce is a social enterprise, dedicated to improving the quality of life of rural communities in Nigeria that have little or no access to electricity. In 17 days (starting May 26, 2010) Solar Jooce drove across all 36 states in Nigeria to replace kerosene lanterns with solar lamp/phone charging units. The expedition was tagged SOLAR FOR THE MASSES. Solar Jooce aims to empower rural dwellers by creating practical awareness for the potential of solar power in transforming their lives, and to underline the fact that fossil fuels such as kerosene are dangerous to health and the environment. A long-term objective for Solar Jooce will be to identify and select hardworking, illiterate [or barely literate] rural women for training as basic Solar installers & troubleshooters. This will create jobs for an unlikely segment (women, poor people), spread the use of solar energy amongst the rural populace, and begin to lift rural areas out of a needless cycle of poverty.
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