At school, we found that students often learn in dark classrooms and struggle to read their books.
Rudy Gharib, USAID
Exploring life in Africa without access to electricity
Inside this Issue
Power/Trade Africa
Power/Trade Africa
September/October 2014
At school, we found that students often learn in dark classrooms and struggle to read their books.
Rudy Gharib, USAID
Two out of every three sub-Saharan Africans live without power.
That’s 600 million people who go through life without:
… A stove to cook on.
… Light to study with.
… Power lines to hospitals.
… Well-lit roads.
When President Obama launched Power Africa, we started thinking a lot about what a day in the “dark” would look like. We spent a full day on the outskirts of Nairobi to see for ourselves what life without electricity means and how it impacts the lives of the people we met.
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