HOUR OF POWER +
Are you looking for a corporate volunteering initiative that delivers meaningful global impact while engaging your team in a powerful shared experience? Around the world, millions of children live without access to safe and reliable lighting. Our Hour of Power+ program brings your team together to help address this urgent need.
Aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, this impactful 90-minute hands-on program combines purpose-driven action with an engaging team-building component. Participants take part in a collaborative team challenge, learn about the realities of energy poverty through a compelling presentation, assemble a solar light that will change a child’s life, and write a personal letter to the recipient.
At the conclusion of each session, the completed solar lights are returned to our partner SolarBuddy for quality assurance before beginning their journey to children living in energy poverty — ensuring your team’s efforts translate into lasting, measurable impact.
The four pillars of Energy Poverty
Education
Without safe and reliable lighting, children cannot study after dusk.
Health
Using solid fuels and kerosene for energy constributes to indoor air polution which causes over 3.2 million deaths annuall.
Environment
Fuel based lighting leads to the emissions of roughly 190 million tonnes of CO2 per year.
Livelihoods
Millions of people spend up to 40% of their income on kerosene lamps.
Families have an 80% reduction in kerosene expenditures per annum!
Creates over 7,300 additional study hours!
Impacts the lives of 5 people living in energy poverty!
Equivalent of planting 21.3 trees!
The financial equivalent of 16 weeks of work
