Featured in As simple as IBC – 03-2023

Haiti hopes

When Brighten Haiti was launched in 2020, the challenges facing schoolchildren in the Caribbean country were profound. While the organization and its 2022 pv magazine Sustainability Award-winning Solar4Schools program are set to address some issues, the security and economic situation in the nation has deteriorated even further, as Brighten Haiti founder Kevin Keene told Jonathan Gifford.

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Jonathan Gifford

09 Mar 2023

Brighten Haiti trains solar apprentices. | Photo: Brighten Haiti

Jonathan Gifford: Take me virtually to Haiti – what are some of the challenges people are facing?Kevin Keene: Only 39% of the population have access to electricity. And those that do, they might live in areas like Port-au-Prince, where the grid only works for four hours a day. When they don’t have oil, sometimes it’s …

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