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Samsung Creates Solar Powered Schools and E-Libraries

Samsung Electronics has changed the face of education across the African continent. Setting up the first solar powered Internet school and upgrading libraries to e-libraries, the company has enabled schools to incorporate technology into the classroom as early as primary school. Students are able to access e-books and interactive activities on tablets in schools that now have consistent power.

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School children hold up one of the Samsung tablets used at the library.

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A repurposed shipping container, which was turned into one of Samsung’s Solar Powered Internet Schools, the first of which was built in South Africa as part of the company’s Hope for Children Initiative.

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Samsung Electronics East Africa donated Samsung Galaxy Tablets to aid in an E-learning initiative in Kenya.

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