Strengthening Solar PV Education & Solar PV Popularization in Rural Villages of Ethiopia
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Strengthening Solar PV Education & Solar PV Popularization in Rural Villages of Ethiopia
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Key Data
Organisation
Hawassa children’s organization (HCO)
Duration
August 2020 - March 2023
Project Description
In order to establish itself as a leading training centre in solar energy, Hawassa Vocational Training College (HVTC) expands its technology laboratory and acquires additional equipment for practical exercises, such as measuring instruments, PV components or batteries. This also includes a 5kWp PV system, which ensures the power supply on the one hand and serves as a demonstration and training object on the other. HVTC also further develops its curricula and offers three different training programmes. Finally, additional trainers, technicians and management experts are hired. The project provides 60 unemployed young adults with technical and business skills and supports them to create their own business opportunities including product sales, installations, and servicing. Accordingly, the training programmes also improve the living conditions and awareness of the local population through the use of the technologies by equipping 46 social institutions with solar applications and creating a demonstration field with a solar water pump. These illustrate the productive use of solar technology for the trainees, resident smallholders and the general public. Finally, HCO informs more than 3,000 people about solar energy through campaigns.
GBE Component
Small Projects Fund
Categories
- Business Development Support
- Social Institutions
Factsheet
Location
Country SPF
Ethiopia
Geographic coordinates of project site
{{#geocode: 6.65033, 38.46931}}
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