Power Outages Affect Village Operations

Zambia has one rainy season a year for 4 months; eight months of no rain. We grow 75% of all our needed food for the 1000 meals we serve a day. Without electricity we cannot irrigate for the eight months of the long dry season. Caring for 110  children in the village and over 600 students at the School of Hope requires more than 50 000 litres of water a day. 

Electricity in Zambia has problems. We are now confronted with the imminent cutting of 85% of the nation's electricity. We have been living these last weeks with no electrical power over 12 hours a day. When power goes out that means no electricity, no irrigation, no food. Imagine having no electricity, no water for flushing, no water to grow crops, no supermarket to run to...for five or six months! Yet having a big family to care for. That is our current situation on the Village. The nation's largest power plant providing 85% of all the country's electricity will soon be shut down. 

Installing a solar power array of panels and batteries helps us generate and store power to free us from the many problems that come with the national electric grid.

Thank you in advance for helping us give light everyday.