The Innovative Microfinance Company Limited (IMFCL) has disbursed a total of 300 boxes of energy efficient solar panel and lamps to women farmers and students of Mbanaayili, a farming community in the Kumbungu District of the Northern Region.
The $38,000 project funded by the Energy4everyone foundation, a Canadian charity foundation was to enable women who pick shea nuts at night to improve their livelihoods, while the students would use the lamps to improve their studies since electricity supply had been erratic.
Ms Sheila Azuntaba, Chief Executive Officer of IMFCL, speaking at a ceremony to handover the lamps to beneficiaries in Kumbungu at the weekend said the gesture was made to their royal customers as part of their social responsibilities of giving back to society.
�Last year we gave out energy efficient cooking stoves, which had helped in reducing the effects of large usage of firewood�, she said.
Ms Azuntaba said recent national power challenges had affected the operations of agribusiness, hence the organisation�s initiative to support rural folks especially women by providing durable panel that could also be used to charge phones and small radio sets.
Madam Chris Meyer, a Representative of Energy4everyone Foundation, said the collaboration formed part of the fifth Energy4everyone lamp project that would help ensure that deprived communities had access to power for their household chores.
She said the gesture would give the needed supply of light to the beneficiaries to illuminate the lives of the clients.
Ms Majeed Rukaya, a beneficiary commended the organization for the kind gesture, saying, it would go a long way to enhance academic work and to improve life in the area.
She noted that the lamps would prevent the women from falling prey to the high rate of snake bites on the farms during the picking of shea nuts at night.
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