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Sierra Leone

HealthGrid provides solar power and internet connection to 26 health facilities in remote communities across Sierra Leone, eight of which also benefit from improved water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) facilities provided by World Vision.
The Millennium Challenge Corporation, a US state development fund, has extended a $480-million five-year grant to Sierra Leone to provide reliable and affordable electricity to 4.6 million people, the fund said.
There was a time when cooking brought tears to Fatima Bangura’s eyes. It wasn’t necessarily the ingredients that went into the 25-year-old’s culinary creations. Or pride that her popular dish of cassava leaves and beans draws customers back to her food stall in Susan’s Bay, an informal settlement in Sierra Leone’s Freetown.
Women in the fisheries and aquaculture sectors in Sierra Leone are receiving solar freezers to help them reduce their post-harvest losses. The UNDP transferred the freezers to the Government of Sierra leone through the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources.
Each system has a roof-mounted 16.62kWp of solar PV with 545Wp Solar PV panels and a 19.2kWh battery bank with 4.8kWh of Pylontech li-ion battery storage in total. Beyond the immediate impact on healthcare delivery, this initiative by Aptech Africa represents a crucial step towards sustainable development in Sierra Leone.
The Universal Energy Facility (UEF) will provide grantees with financial support to build solar mini-grids in communities without access to clean energy and where other polluting energy sources, such as diesel and petrol generators, charcoal and firewood, are common.

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