Category: Solar lights

  • School’s Out until January 2021

    School’s Out until January 2021

    In Kenya schools closed in March and will not reopen until January 2021. The government has decided that everyone will retake a year, although it is not clear what will happen with the youngest class and whether they will delay the start of their schooling, or will create a bulge year. It is very difficult…

  • Keeping Going During the Coronavirus Pandemic

    Keeping Going During the Coronavirus Pandemic

    Schools in Kenya have been closed since 15th March. All of the schools that the Mwezi Foundation supports are in rural locations and the students live in very poor conditions. We have been unable to communicate with the teachers but we assume that it is unlikely any significant home learning has taken place, due to…

  • The First Mwezi Solar Light Audit

    The First Mwezi Solar Light Audit

    One of the challenges we face is ensuring that our Mwezi lights are well looked after. We give light libraries of 16 lights to schools, who then lend them to pupils in remote homes. The pupils should share the lights between themselves so they can be accountable to each other. Occasionally a light will go…

  • Mitsajeni Primary School receives their first Mwezi light library

    Mitsajeni Primary School receives their first Mwezi light library

    The 43 students at Mitsajeni Primary School in class 7 can look forward to a brighter future after their school successfully applied for Mwezi lights. Dorcas (at the back of the photo) visited them in February to deliver their first light library of 15 lights. Dorcas was received with honour by a committee including Mr…