LEN Business Plan Highlighted at 5th Sanklap African Summit

After successfully completing an intense nine month program for social entrepreneurs with the GE Helathymagination program and Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship at Santa Clara University, LEN presented its business plan to investors at the 5th Sanklap African Summit in Nairobi, Kenya on March 1, 2018. The Summit is one of the largest gatherings of …

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LEN and Mercy Corps Team Up to Expand the Off-grid Market

LEN entered into a memorandum of understanding with Mercy Corps, one of the largest aid agencies in the world, to provide off-grid solar lighting and power in Liberia using pay-as-you-go and mobile money technologies. With support from Mercy Corps Liberia, LEN is implementing a pilot of these new technologies, which will expand access for Liberians …

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LEN is Largest Off-grid Distributor in Liberia

In December, the Liberian Rural Renewable Energy Agency acknowledged LEN as the largest distributor of off-grid solar for 2017 in Liberia. As the market pioneer, LEN in its seven years of continuous operations has provided 70,000 Liberians access to power and light.

LEN distributes over 4,000 Off-grid Connections to Firestone Rubber Tappers

FAWUL Crew

With a grant from USAID Power Africa and the United States African Development Foundation (USADF), LEN in partnership with the Firestone Agricultural & Workers Union (FAWUL), the largest labor organization in Liberia, successfully established 4245 new off-grid connections providing rubber tappers and their families living in scattered “camps” across the one million acre Firestone rubber …

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More Lights for Rural School Children

Building on the successful partnership with One Million Lights and Servant Leadership Program, Inc. more than 400 school children in rural Gbopolu County, Liberia were provided with solar lights to help them with their studies and give their families’ access to off-grid power in one of the most remote regions of Liberia. This program has …

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Phebe Hospital update – one year later

Phebe Hospital

Since June, 2015, the 1 KW Gridless Core solar powered system LEN installed at Phebe Hospital in Bong County, Liberia has been providing continuous uninterrupted power to the hospital’s two operating theaters, powering the lighting system and critical life support equipment. Because of prohibitive costs, the hospital can only run its diesel powered electrical generator …

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Len provides LED Security lighting at LIBR

LEN was selected in 2016 by the Sandia National Laboratories’ International Biological and Chemical Thread Reduction Program, which is supported by the US Department of State Biological Engagement Programs, to provide and install solar powered off-grid LED area security lighting and maintenance for the systems, as part of enhancing the physical security for LIBR. LIBR …

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School children in Gbopolu county receive lights

In March, 2016 LEN partnered with One Million Lights and Servant Leadership Program,Inc. to provide 500 lights to school children in one of the most rural areas of Liberia, Gbopolu County. This was the first installment of a program with a goal of providing 6,000 lights to the students and teachers in Gbopolu County. One …

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LEN receives grant to expand Firestone Plantation Lighting Project

FAWUL Crew

One of LEN’s principal goals is to create a social enterprise in Liberia which is self-supporting and sustainable. In 2012 LEN in Liberia was registered as a non-profit corporation entirely run and staffed by Liberians, under the leadership of Abubakar K. Sherif. Recognizing the success of the Liberian staff, In February, 2016, the United States …

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