Tanzania Humanitarian Outreach
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This summer, students at The Ohio State University have the opportunity to develop and test their solar engineering skills while empowering a school for orphans in Tanzania.
Essentially, when the Solar Education and Outreach (SOLAREO) club annual alternative spring break humanitarian trip to Haiti ended, organizers found a way to keep the positive energy moving. Work began behind the scenes to shift their goals.
Launching this year, the Solar Engineering Service-Learning in Tanzania project aims to address lighting and electrical needs at Camp Joshua, a primary school of 120 students located in the Unga Limited slums of Arusha, Tanzania. Access to electrical power there is unreliable and too expensive for the school to afford. The camp offers a safe educational environment for the children of the slum area, providing boarding and meals.
The outreach effort is led by the collaborative team of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Professor Paul Berger, Fisher College of Business Professor of Marketing Greg Allenby and Ohio State alumnus Turner Adornetto.
Monies raised here will be directly used to defray the program fees of the student participants. Program fees include costs associated with airfare to Tanzania, per diem, emergency cell phone, water, as well as the raw materials for the solar installation, icluding about a 1 kilowatt of solar panels, deep-cycle marine batteries, power electronics, electrical outlets, light switches, light sockets and wiring to USA code standards.
https://ece.osu.edu/news/2019/01/ohio-state-unveils-plans-tanzania-humanitarian-outreach
Essentially, when the Solar Education and Outreach (SOLAREO) club annual alternative spring break humanitarian trip to Haiti ended, organizers found a way to keep the positive energy moving. Work began behind the scenes to shift their goals.
Launching this year, the Solar Engineering Service-Learning in Tanzania project aims to address lighting and electrical needs at Camp Joshua, a primary school of 120 students located in the Unga Limited slums of Arusha, Tanzania. Access to electrical power there is unreliable and too expensive for the school to afford. The camp offers a safe educational environment for the children of the slum area, providing boarding and meals.
The outreach effort is led by the collaborative team of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Professor Paul Berger, Fisher College of Business Professor of Marketing Greg Allenby and Ohio State alumnus Turner Adornetto.
Monies raised here will be directly used to defray the program fees of the student participants. Program fees include costs associated with airfare to Tanzania, per diem, emergency cell phone, water, as well as the raw materials for the solar installation, icluding about a 1 kilowatt of solar panels, deep-cycle marine batteries, power electronics, electrical outlets, light switches, light sockets and wiring to USA code standards.
https://ece.osu.edu/news/2019/01/ohio-state-unveils-plans-tanzania-humanitarian-outreach
Organizer
Sarah Jean McKinsey
Organizer
Columbus, OH
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