This past March I attended a social enterprise conference at Harvard Business School (blog post HERE) and met a young entrepreneur - Nick Sowen - who works with ToughStuff International, a fantastic social enterprise that provides inexpensive solar powered products to low income consumers in developing countries to create social, financial and environmental returns. Thanks to the profound generosity of ToughStuff, one month later I was traveling to Rwanda with a suitcase of personal-size solar panels, LED lamps, mobile phone connectors, radio connectors, and rechargeable battery packs!
The cooperatives and the Indego Africa team learned how to use the Toughstuff products together (so easy!), and by the end of each introduction the women were charging their cell phones with the sun's rays. It was a pretty remarkable sight.
Please take a moment to learn more about ToughStuff's innovative products, mission and model at www.toughstuffonline.org. A couple photos of the women even made it onto ToughStuff's website (see full set below)!
- Ben
4 comments:
Thanks Ben and Indego. You guys are doing fantastic work in Rwanda - we're proud to be associated with you in anyway we can.
Thanks also for the great pics and surveys you took. We owe you one!
Nick Sowden
ToughStuff
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