In Angaradebou, a village in northern Benin, mothers struggled to grow enough food to feed their families during the lengthy dry season. As you will see in the My Fat Baby video, SELF's Solar Market Garden combines solar-powered pumps with drip irrigation to enable year-round food production - empowering women to earn a living selling produce and assuring the health of their children. Solar-powered water pumping stations provide communities in the Kalal District of Benin with clean drinking water, reducing the risk of waterborne illness and eliminating the need for women and girls to walk miles each day for water collection.
Increasing access to energy is critical to ensuring socioeconomic development in the world's poorest countries.
With rising temperatures and unprecedented weather patterns, individuals living in energy poverty no longer have conditions to grow food year-round or find clean water.
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SELF is in pursuit of SDG #7, to make clean energy accessible to all by 2030. We need your help.
Energy poverty—the lack of access to modern forms of energy, especially electricity—und ermines virtually every aspect of human welfare
Given the important linkages between closing the energy access gap and improving people’s health and wellbeing, it is critical to have integrated approaches to health and energy challenges.
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An estimated 1 billion people globally are served by health facilities without electricity
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Energy poverty—the lack of access to modern forms of energy, especially electricity—undermines virtually every aspect of human welfare
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