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Solar Jooce is a Nigerian social enterprise focused on popularising solar energy as a viable source of power in the West African sub-region.

Our mission is twofold:

To offer renewable power solutions for homes and small business that are plagued by frequent and crippling power outages. We aim to help alleviate the challenges posed to productivity and quality of life caused by an unreliable power grid.

Rural outreach is our other area of focus where our empowerment of women solar technicians is aligned with parts of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) aimed at empowering women.

Solar Jooce thrives on quality collaborations with domestic and international partners in its quest to positively transform lives and create opportunities.

We merge the professionalism of the commercial sector with the values of the charity sector to create an organisation that bridges the gap between both.

That is why social entrepreneurship and innovation are at the heart of what we do.

Join the 36-State Tour

The Solar for the Masses expedition has come and gone. In 17 days (not 36 as we had thought!), we traversed the 36 states of Nigeria and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The road trip started on Wednesday, May 26, 2010 and ended on Friday, June 11, 2010.

Team Solar jooce covered a total distance of 9,309km. As we drove through villages in every state to provide basic solar appliances to primary healthcare centres and micro-businesses - and to recruit rural women for training as Solar Engineers - our objectives were two-fold:

1. to show the possibilities of using solar to meet the Millennium Development Goals [End poverty & Hunger; Gender Equality; Universal Education; Child Health; Maternal Health; Environmental Sustainability; Global Partnership]

2. Regenerate economic, educational and social activity at the grassroot level.

We were (and still are) are guided by three important quotes:

"Power supply is crucial in stimulating economic growth, ensuring poverty reduction and employment generation, and enhancing economic competitiveness." - Nigeria's President, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan

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