As part of Schneider Electric’s CSR program, 50 lucky families from the fishing town in Cavite gets a solar lighting solution from the company.
Specifically, the fishing community in Dreamland, Rosario, Cavite which is considered one of the poorest districts in the province, is where the Light Up project distributed Schneider Electric’s Mobiya Solar Lamps.
The 50 families in the community cannot afford electricity in their homes, and have to rely on kerosene and candles for their lighting needs.
As part of the recently launched “Light It Up” programme, an initiative to bring access to electricity to rural communities across the Asia Pacific region, Schneider Electric will donate Mobiya solar lamps to the 50 affected families. The Mobiya lamps will help the familiies to cut down their spending on kerosene fuel, and can also be used as “fish bait” and on fishing boats.
Schneider Electic believes that access to energy is a basic human right, and it is committed to put safe, reliable, efficient and sustainable energy within reach of a great many households, ensuring Life Is On for everyone, everywhere, and at every moment.
Schneider Electric employees will distribute more than 1,800 units of the Mobiya solar lamps to rural communities in 12 countries across Southeast Asia.
Light It Up Timeline
- 162 households in the Kawhmu Village in Myanmar are living in poverty and have no access to the outside world. Upon recommendation from the Department of Rural Development, Government Ministry (DRD), Schneider Electric aims to equip each household with a Mobiya solar lamp to improve the lighting situation for late night studying and increase the safety for night time transportation.
- 96 low-income households in the surburbian area on the hills of Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia do not have access to electricity and rely on candles as their main source of light. In collaboration with the French-Mongolian Chamber of Commerce and Ulaanbaatar’s Social Welfare and Service department, Schneider Electric aims to provide every household with a Mobiya solar lamp to extend childiren’s study time and adults’ productivity.
- 275 households in Tan Loi Village in the An Giang Province of Vietnam from the Khmer ethnic minority group are living off-grid with no sustainable source of income. In partnership with GreenID (a local NGO) and the Women Union of Tan Loi, Schneider Electric will be providing 192 Mobiya solar lamps to the village, which will be distributed to the villagers via a sustainable entrepreneurship plan.
The Mobiya range of portable products for lighting and mobile charging is an award winning energy-efficient and eco-friendly LED lamps that provide up to 48 hours of lighting with one day of solar charge.
