“To help this project, to have the opportunity to help our young become scientists, doctors, engineers and teachers was a noble and distinguished obligation that, with fear and exhilaration, I accepted the offer to help immediately. It turned out to be, for me, the beginning of the great spiritual journey that we are all destined to make while we are on this earth.”
-- Dickson Mutaiti, Project Director, Kenya

“If I had gone to school my life would have been very different. It would now be very, very good. I could have been a doctor or a pilot or a teacher. That is why I am sending my children to school because I want these things for them”
-- David Ole Koshal, Village Elder and Chief of the Oloolaimutia Village, Kenya

“To be associated with this project is tremendous. The benefits will be sustaining and ongoing and will be immense. The children themselves will be able to work after dark with good light quality and their education levels will increase”
-- Guy Jack, Managing Director, Cholride Exide, Solar Power Company, Nairobi, Kenya

“Normally electrification programs are done on the backs of urban populations. That means ninety percent of the people, who live in cities and urban areas, fund and electrify the ten percent of people who live in the rural areas. In Africa, however, over seventy five percent of the people live in the rural areas and only twenty five percent are in the urban areas. So there are not the financial resources to fund rural electrification. There needs to be a new policy developed to bring electrification to everybody”
-- Mark Hankins, Author, Writer and CEO of Energy for Sustainable Development Africa, Nairobi, Kenya

“Education is valued very much by Kenyans and having electric power and computers enhances the lives and opportunities for the villages and communities of the area.”
-- Professor Arne Jacobson, Humboldt University and a leading exponent of Social development and solar power in Kenya

“When we talk about education for the poor it’s a life line. There is no other route through which a poor family will ever get out of that cycle of poverty unless we give them education and skills. I know about this project since the beginning. Classrooms have been built, solar power installed, computers are now in place. There is a complete change, not only the perception of education, but also in terms of self worth of the children and the community and everyone is enthusiastic about going to the school. Our future, our security, our common destiny, lies in the support of the poor, so we can all move together.”
-- Professor Karega Mutani, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Kenya