Project Chirag

400 million people in rural India live without access to clean water. 200 million people in rural India live without access to electricity. 230 million people in rural India live in poverty. What began in 2010 as an initiative to provide solar electrification to villages with limited or no access to the electricity grid, light for all, has evolved into an intervention model that allows us to bring development to villages, all on the pivot of sustainable energy, solar power. With our supportive partners, and the ingenuity of our villagers, we have innovated ways in which solar power can benefit the forgotten Bharat of our India, and truly catapult them out of poverty. The need to provide basics rights is paramount. The right to light. The right to water. The right to a livelihood. Since 2010 we have worked in 522 villages in 11 states, with the contribution of innumerable benevolent donors, to impact 116,166 lives. We havent worked in vacuum, and have instead built an ecosystem of...