Expanding access: solar, water, and cooking

Jenean Smith is the senior director of International Programs at Grid Alternatives, a U.S.-based philanthropic organization that brings solar access to vulnerable homes and communities through local volunteers and job trainees doing installations. Smith started a non-profit called Power to the People with a locally staffed office in Nicaragua in 2008, before it was acquired by Grid Alternatives in 2014. Since then, the organization’s International Program has expanded its operations into Nepal in 2016 and Mexico in 2017.