LEN Brings Light to Rural Mission Station - LEN

Camphor is a Methodist Mission Station serving hundreds of local residents located in rural Grand Bassa County, Liberia many miles from the nearest road and far beyond the reach of the power grid. In addition to the church, the Mission operates the only school and clinic for miles around. The Leroy Methodist Church of Leroy, Illinois helps to support the Mission Station and learned of the need to provide power to the Mission. The effort was lead by parishioner Susan Jiles who contacted LEN in early 2021 to explore how working together we might help improve the lives and opportunities of the Liberians served by, and living at, the Mission Station using off-grid sola

Students at Camphor Mission Station with solar lighting system before it is installed in their school classroom.

The Leroy Methodist Church worked months to raise the funds to purchase 16 WoW solar lighting systems. In March, 2022 the LEN team installed the systems at the Mission Station compound. Now the Church, School, Clinic and all of the living quarters on the compound have reliable electric power for the first time! Each of the WoW systems, manufactured by Amped Innovation PBC, an off-grid solar company headquartered in San Mateo, California supports three lights and a mobile phone charger. Each system with all three lights operating has a run time per day of solar charging of 6 hours on the bright setting and 15 hours on the dim setting.

The WoW solar 60 systems will provide years of trouble free power to a community which is not likely be connected to the electrical grid in the foreseeable future, helping to make their lives better and more productive. This project is an example of teamwork in action helping to overcome the barrier of lack of access to electricity which was holding back a rural Liberian community’s development.