The Gift of Solar Radios

Buying this gift enables more children in remote areas to access education

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Buying this gift enables more children in remote areas to access education.

Digital connectivity is missing in many places, and in some of the countries that we work in they don't often have electricity either. Actually, Wi-Fi is sometimes not available at all and if it is the cost is really out of their reach. So teachers have been able to use radio programmes to develop the learning and do extra lessons with their students.

In some areas the teachers found that students had neither radios or electricity. So Solar Powered Radios with a light combined were the best solution. Across sub-Saharan Africa, 590 million people currently live without access to electricity. After sunset many people light their homes by burning dangerous and expensive paraffin candles or kerosene lamps.

The Gambia Teachers Union asked the Steve Sinnott Foundation to step in and help get these radios and lights out to these students.

The Gift of a Solar Radio

Through buying Solar Radios Lights you are helping students in countries such as The Gambia and Sierra Leone who live in very rural villages. They don’t have access to the internet or electricity but they do have access to radio and light. It’s been hugely successful with thousands of children learning safely during the Coronavirus pandemic, and it can continue to provide lessons to children in remote areas into the future.

How does it make you feel knowing that you are part of a new, sustainable movement, enabling students to access education in remote areas?

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Your Gift Helps People Like… Buba

Buba lives in a small village in Region Six in The Gambia. During the lockdown when schools were closed, he went to the farm every day from sunrise to sunset to help his dad. To his father, it was very useful for him that schools were closed, because he had more help on the farm.

Buba usually travels four kilometres to his school, which was identified as “remote” so he was given a solar radio to use for follow-up lessons by the GTU (Gambia Teachers Union). As he was the only student from his village, he had the chance to be given a set to use for himself.

When the GTU went back to the schools to get the feedbacks on the impact of the radios, these were Buba’s words:

“What would have become of me and my education, if the GTU had not given me a radio that helped me follow up lessons. The radio was my saviour, because as soon as the school gave it to me, I told my dad that my work at the farm has stopped and I will concentrate on my lessons with the radio and that was what I did”.