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Microfinance in the field

1. How PEG is lighting up lives in Ghana

   March 3, 2017 - by Laura de Bresser - 0 comments

   

   At the end of January 2017 I paid a visit to our recent partner PEG Africa at their Ghana office. PEG Africa provides solar home systems to low income people in rural areas with the objective to electrify 500,000 households in West Africa by 2020. The benefits to households of using the solar home systems include saving on money spent on kerosene and batteries, health benefits in the form of clean energy, and having access to a more reliable source of energy with knock-on benefits for education and safety.

   Tags: Ghana, renewable energy

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