Right To Light

Our Mission

To form strategic alliances and partnerships with civil society organisations, donors, government and the private sector in order to achieve our mission of alleviating energy poverty, fostering development and preserving the environment by supplying cost-effective, renewable and sustainable sources of energy and power.

To provide alternative, renewable and efficient energy solutions to clinics, dispensaries, diagnostic centres, medical aid organisations, women’s groups, organisations catering to education and other social development initiatives especially for the girl-child, the resource-challenged, rural, slum and peri-urban dwelling populations, grass-root entrepreneurs and to use business principles to create, organize and manage our ventures for the realisation of our social objectives.

To collaborate with the government, city councils and corporations with CSR initiatives for the purpose of sponsoring street lights relying on the latest solar power technology incorporating induction solar lighting.

With a population of about 350 million people, Sub-Saharan Africa has the lowest levels of electrification in the world, where 9 out of 10 people do not have electricity. Studies irrefutably prove that energy and poverty are linked. Areas of the world with the highest levels of poverty also have the lowest levels of modern energy consumption.

Although batteries provide an interim solution, this source of energy is not only expensive; the average resource and cash-strapped African spends a significant 6% of his annual income on disposable batteries, but also, in the process further degrades his environment.

Initially, we wanted to set up a private foundation so that we could help Kenya in tackling some of its poverty and energy problems by providing access to clean, reliable, cost-effective and virtually everlasting sources of power.

Unfortunately, due to the recent global economic downturn, we found that donors were unable to support fledgling foundations, however noble their goals. Undaunted by this state of affairs, we decide to establish a social enterprise so that we could form strategic alliances with notable organisations within both the commercial and not-for-profit sectors so that we could make a difference and effect social change by reliance on our own products and on our intrinsic values to do good.