Location: Olkeri Village, Magadi Ward, Kajiado West, Kenya

Goal: Provide solar power to support the education of 170+ Children

Ilparakuo Adventist Primary and Junior Secondary School was founded by and for the local Maasai community, the school serves over 170 children, many of whom face a range of challenges — including poverty, child labour, early marriage, lack of access to water, food, and electricity. Despite these hardships, the children are keen to learn and many walk several km each day to get to school. The school has invested in electrical wiring and lighting, but does not have an electricity connection to the main utility network because it is too far away and too expensive to connect. In contrast solar power is sustainable, reliable and will have low running costs for the school.

We're launching a campaign to install a solar power system at Ilparakuo School, giving the teachers the electricity needed to enrich the education of the pupils.

Your support will:

• Light classrooms and provide nighttime security on the school grounds

• Power future ICT/computer labs

• Enable use of cooling fans

• Support evening learning programs/homework clubs

• Provide teachers with ability to charge devices

• Make boarding facilities for vulnerable girls safer

• Reduce reliance on dangerous, expensive fuels

• Enable future water pumping.

In Their Words:

"This school gives us hope. Without it, many of our girls would be married at 13. We just need power to keep going."

— Local Parent, Olkeri Village

"I want to be a doctor. But we need light to study after school."

— Grade 6 Pupil

Be Part of the Impact

✔️ 100% of your donation will go directly to providing the solar system at the school.

✔️ Updates, photos, and details of how the money is spent will be provided on our web site at PowerUp for Schools

Who we are: A collaboration between the governors of Ilparakuo School and members of the Energy and Climate Change Division at the University of Southampton, UK (acting in a personal capacity - this fundraising campaign is not officially endorsed by the University)