Gwanda’s successful solar power project

EIGHT-YEAR-OLD Babuluki Sibanda sits in front of his teacher’s laptop trying to type his name.

With information communication technology (ICT) being one of the subjects incorporated into the new school curriculum, the young boy from the poverty-stricken Matankeni village in Gwanda South is one of those pupils in rural outskirts, who were fortunate enough to have practical lessons, thanks to the availability of the recently established solar power project.

Babuluki and his fellow pupils at Mashaba Primary School are proud beneficiaries of country’s first inclusive solar power mini-grid project in Gwanda that will see about 10 000 villagers benefitting.

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