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Africa: GE Africa and The USADF Launch 2017 Off-Grid Energy Challenge For Women in Energy
GE Africa, 17 November 2016
A lack of financial support for Africa’s power generation needs has several negative ramifications for the continent, with the most significant one being that it stalls… Read more »
GE Africa (Lagos)
A New Off-Grid Energy Challenge Aimed at African Women
African women often have less access to financing than their male counterparts in many African countries. With that in mind, GE Africa and USADF have relaunched their partnership for a 2017 Off-Grid Energy Challenge aimed at African women-owned and managed energy enterprises and innovations. Find out more. More about GE in Africa in this BRIEFING.
Paris Wanjiru, 17, uses a solar-powered light created by M-Kopa to study at night. Before her home had electricity, she was ranked sixth in her class; now, she ranks second. GE Africa and USADF has relaunched their partnership for a 2017 Off-Grid Energy Challenge aimed at African women-owned and managed energy enterprises and innovations.
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Since African women innovators and leaders often have lower access to financing than their male counterparts in many African countries, the U.S. African Development Foundation ... Read more »
