Solar Jooce's highly skilled and tireless volunteer Solar Engineer, David Osokolo, gets ready to set off for Gulmin Boka in Niger state where he will set up solar panels to illuminate the village's Bible Training School Since the completion of our 36-state tour, we've had requests coming in from rural Nigeria for solar lighting assistance.
After reviewing a few well thought-out applications, we settled for a last-minute submission from the
Bible Training School at Gulmin Boka village (near Kotangora, Niger state). Their request articulated a simple but urgent need, with an intention to contribute a small amount towards ownership of a solar lighting solution.
A major problem faced by the students of the School is the absence of power to provide light to read/study at night.
Reverend Linus Timawus, who co-ordinates developmental projects in the area, had earlier on sensitised the School about the need to take their development into their own hands. He was therefore happy to mobilise the School and a few other entities to make a financial contribution towards owning our solar kit donation (the solar kit was purchased 100% by
Solar Jooce). The contribution of the Bible Training School would be 10% of the cost of the solar kit, and a token fee for installation by our volunteer Solar Engineer, Mr. David Osokolo.
The School will be benefitting from the solar kit that Imope village in Lagos state had failed to take advantage of.
Watch this space. In about 7 days, the project will have been completed and we will hopefully have pictures and stories of a life-changing/developmental experience to share...
