In the rural areas, especially in the areas where tribal people live, there is no electricity in majority of the places. The tribal women cook outside their houses and cook before sunset due to no access to electricity. The children also struggle hard to study in evenings after 6.00 pm. They have been using kerosene lanterns and many tribal families are not in a position to buy kerosene in the open market due to their inability to bear the cost. So, to address the electricity issues of tribal families living in extremely difficult areas, we provide them domestic solar lights.
Our field staff identify the beneficiaries especially women and donate domestic solar lights. We have donated about 1500 solar lights to 1500 tribal families. They charge the lights for 4-5 hours every day and use the same in the nights for enabling children to study till 9.00 pm and to cook inside the houses (huts). Tribal Men use the solar lights in the night time to catch fish and for hunting. Tribal people are now happy because solar lights help the women to cook in the nights, children to study extra hours in the nights, men to use the solar lights to catch fish in the nights for earning additional income.