Stories

Uganda, here we come!

WE CARE Solar team member Melissa Ho has been working on health care telecommunications in Uganda this year. She will be field testing a solar suitcase in one of the health care facilities in Southwest Uganda. When we learned that

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How to Pack A Suitcase

We’re eager to improve the design of our most popular item – the solar suitcase. We have receive requests for solar electrification from clinics all over the world – from Borneo to the Amazon to the Congo, and have been

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A “Little Box of Sunlight” in Rwanda

Our most recent solar suitcase “offspring” has a new home in a rural clinic in Rwanda. When we heard that Catapult Design’s founder and CEO, Heather Fleming, was involved in a project to bring solar power to several health facilities

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The Traveling Suitcase

News of the solar suitcase is traveling fast. UNICEF shared information about the solar suitcase in a recent “innovations fair” in Geneva, Switzerland. And Heather Fleming, of Catapult Designs, is testing one of our prototype suitcases in a Rwandan health

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We’re All In This Together

One of the most amazing things about being a part of WE CARE Solar is that it has brought together a wonderful array of people. Initially, WE CARE Solar consisted of a small group of graduate students and professors who

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Christmas in June

You can’t imagine the reaction of African health care workers who receive the solar lighting and communication kits. I have had the delight of handing out two portable solar electric kits I transported to Nigeria today, thanks to the generosity

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Transformation

I arrived back in Zaria on Thursday after a demanding set of flights, and a very long car ride. I made my way to Kofan Gayan hospital and was pleased to see that the lights and blood bank refrigerator were

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