With a grant from USAID Power Africa and the United States African Development Foundation (USADF), LEN in partnership with the Firestone Agricultural & Workers Union (FAWUL), the largest labor organization in Liberia, successfully established 4245 new off-grid connections providing rubber tappers and their families living in scattered “camps” across the one million acre Firestone rubber …
Building on the successful partnership with One Million Lights and Servant Leadership Program, Inc. more than 400 school children in rural Gbopolu County, Liberia were provided with solar lights to help them with their studies and give their families’ access to off-grid power in one of the most remote regions of Liberia. This program has …
Since June, 2015, the 1 KW Gridless Core solar powered system LEN installed at Phebe Hospital in Bong County, Liberia has been providing continuous uninterrupted power to the hospital’s two operating theaters, powering the lighting system and critical life support equipment. Because of prohibitive costs, the hospital can only run its diesel powered electrical generator …
LEN was selected in 2016 by the Sandia National Laboratories’ International Biological and Chemical Thread Reduction Program, which is supported by the US Department of State Biological Engagement Programs, to provide and install solar powered off-grid LED area security lighting and maintenance for the systems, as part of enhancing the physical security for LIBR. LIBR …
In March, 2016 LEN partnered with One Million Lights and Servant Leadership Program,Inc. to provide 500 lights to school children in one of the most rural areas of Liberia, Gbopolu County. This was the first installment of a program with a goal of providing 6,000 lights to the students and teachers in Gbopolu County. One …
One of LEN’s principal goals is to create a social enterprise in Liberia which is self-supporting and sustainable. In 2012 LEN in Liberia was registered as a non-profit corporation entirely run and staffed by Liberians, under the leadership of Abubakar K. Sherif. Recognizing the success of the Liberian staff, In February, 2016, the United States …