In collaboration with the NGDO Juan Ciudad (San Juan de Dios), we have developed a project which supplies electricity for the nursing school of "St. John of God Catholic School of Nursing" in Sierra Leone. The school is located in the village of Malompoh, Lunsar, in the district of Port Loko. The nursing school is one of the main institutions in the country, in terms of academic investment and services. The electricity needs of the nursing school where previously met by an old and costly electrical generator for use during the day and during the night they counted on the electrical grid from 20h00 to 3h00 which was operated by an industrical size generator in the community.

• NGO; Juan Ciudad
• Service: Lighting and electrical supply 24/7
• Impact: 200 Students and 23 professors and employees
• PV Installation: 40 panels, (10,80 kWp)
• Social Impact: Improvement in education and health system
• Situación Proyecto: Completed and in full operation

Previous situation;  The school and student housing did not have a stable nor reliable electrical grid supply and they counted on an old generator, which is expensive to operate.

The electrical supply from the electrical grid is precarious, unpredictable, operates only during the night and it is not reliable. This complicates the administration, service and teaching that the school can provide, directly impacting the development of teachers and students. The old generator set they relied was too expensive to be a viable option for the school.

The school has 200 students (175 women and 25 men) and 23 staff of teachers and employees (15 men and 8 women). In addition, there are two buildings for the accommodation of 100 students.

The solar installation offers a stable, clean and economic electricity source for the nursing school and accommodation of the students, solving the problems they had of counting on an unstable and unreliable electrical network, and the large fuel and maintenance costs from generator set.

The installation was comissioned in November 2018 with a local team organized by the school and trained by the Eki Foundation.