SolarAID is a UK charity specialising in solar energy for poor countries.

The lack of access to affordable electricity is one major cause of poverty in e.g. Africa. This is why SolarAid focuses mainly on these regions, using solar power for education and health. SolarAid helps to combat on poverty on the one hand, on the other hand on climate change. Both simply by bringing clean, renewable power to the poorest people in the world.

Fighting poverty ? - solar power can enable poor people to cook food, pump clean water, run fridges, light homes, schools and hospitals, farm more effectively, and much more -what I like on this issue is providing a sustainable way out of poverty for entrepreneurial people, for example through micro-franchising...

See all supported projects on http://solar-aid.org/projects/all-projects/