Lighting a Continent

Solar Sister and Angaza are Teaming Up!

Angaza Design and Solar Sister are teaming up to provide women entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa with the brightest, highest-quality solar lights available for under $50. With your support, a Solar Sister Entrepreneur can become a successful businesswoman and bring hope and opportunity to her community with Angaza’s solar lights. A one-time donation is all it takes to set her up for a lifetime of income!

Solar Sister is a not-for-profit social enterprise that empowers women in Sub-Saharan Africa through economic opportunity. With an Avon-style distribution program for solar lights in rural Africa, Solar Sister solves the problem of the “last mile” and brings clean energy technology right to the women’s doorstep. Solar Sister creates critical, lasting change in the lives of the rural women and girls living with the devastating effects of energy poverty.

Solar Sister invests in women entrepreneurs, providing them with a “business in a bag”: a complete start up kit of inventory, training and support that empowers women to start their own businesses. The Solar Sister Entrepreneurs earn a commission on each sale, reinvesting the balance in new inventory and creating a sustainable business that benefits their entire community. The solar lights replace the toxic, unsafe, and expensive open-flame kerosene lamps that are used throughout Africa. Solar light enhances education, improves health, mitigates climate change, and creates economic opportunity.