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LIGHT UP WEST AFRICA PILOT PROJECT REPORT March 2017
Project Background The Light – Up West Africa project is a project by Safe Today Initiative Norge (Safe -TI), a Norwegian NGO and being implemented by Village Exchange Ghana (VEG) in collaboration with Social Venture Africa (SVA). Currently, the pilot phase of the project is being implemented in Adaklu and Nkwanta South Districts in the Volta Region of Ghana.
This report covers activities undertaken in AdakluDawanu community in the Adaklu District. Introduction Twenty-nine (29)solar lights were received from Tony Udebor, the West Africa Representative of SafeTI. The lights have been allocated for distribution in Adaklu- Dawanu, one of the two communities selected in the Volta Region of Ghana for the pilot phase of the Light – Up West Africa project. Adaklu Dawanu is one of the thirty - six communities under the Adaklu district. It has a population of four hundred and fifty (450) with about 55% of these being females. Adaklu-Dawanu was purposively selected because the community has no access to electricity; and also because it is a typical rural area.
Baseline Survey An Exploratory research was conducted and two communities in the Volta Region of Ghana were selected. Adaklu- Dawanu in the Adaklu District and B- Zongo in the Nkwanta South district were the two communities selected. A Baseline study was conducted in Adaklu- Dawunu, one of the selected communities. The objective of the study was to know the state of the inhabitants of this community (without access to electricity) and to know the problems they faced as a result of not having access to electricity. Twenty two (22) people from the community were interviewed. Nine (9) of the respondents representing 41% of the respondents were students between the ages of 7-18 years .The remaining thirteen representing 61% of the respondents were parents between the ages of 30 -57 years.
Findings: All the respondents lamented about the bad state of life without access to electricity. The challenges enumerated by the respondents can be categorized into two. Those challenges which are peculiar to the students and then those challenges presented by the parents.
Students: One issue that went through all the interviews of the students was the fact that their sources of lights for night studies (candles ,lanterns and torches) was causing them eye problems. Most of the students mentioned that they used their parents’ torch lights to study at night; these torch lights used dry cell batteries which have to be replaced from time to time. They continued to say that, anytime the batteries were exhausted and were not replaced as a result of their parents not having money, they could not study during those nights. Supporting Choice, Creating Opportunity Few households had only one torchlight, so anytime their parents were using it, they could not study. Finally, few students that made use of candle light for studies at night said they find it difficult to use it for their studies, because of poor illumination, fear of their houses getting burnt and the risk of respiratory disorders from the smoke emitted by the candle lights.
