Giving solar lamps to schoolchildren brightens both their and the planet’s future.

How? Solar lamps improve education and reduce carbon emissions.

One solar lamp costs £30, inclusive of delivery and supervision, but any donation you can afford will help.

The lamp creates bright and steady light the whole year round. It enables our sponsored schoolchildren to study at home after dark, when the tropical night falls fast at around 6 pm. Other members of the child’s family can also use their time productively, making things to sell or learning new skills.

In addition, several lamps strung from the ceiling can light a classroom.

A solar lamp brings many other important and immediate benefits. It is cleaner, does not smell and, more importantly, cannot start hut fires which spread rapidly through slums. As there are no fumes, it cannot cause lung disease. We have seen for ourselves the difference it makes to these very poor families when they no longer need to spend money on fuel, allowing for a general improvement in living standards and nutrition.

SLEDT’s Solar Lamp Project provides a way for you to offset some of the large carbon footprint we all have in developed countries.

Mariama, in her fourth year at secondary school, is studying at home in the evening using her solar lamp. Her home has no electricity supply. 

Here are some of our sponsored secondary school students with their new lamps. 

Each solar lamp you fund, or donate something toward, offsets approximately one third of a tonne of your total emissions per year and costs you £30, while three lamps will have offset about one tonne and cost you £90.

You will have made a huge difference to the lives and futures of these children and their families while making a tangible contribution to limiting climate change.

Currently SLEDT provides solar lamps to sponsored schoolchildren and university students and, over the minimum guaranteed three years of use will prevent many tonnes of carbon entering the earth’s atmosphere shared by us all. With your help we can increase this. Even if one lamp or part of a lamp is all you can afford, you’ve made a valuable contribution.

Please donate to SLEDT’s bank account, entering as a reference your surname followed by “Solar”.

Triodos Bank

Name of account: Sierra Leone Education and Development Trust
Sort code: 16-58-10
Account number: 20534000

Please send an email to Kevin Curley( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) including your full name, address and postcode so that he can recover Gift Aid on your donation from HMRC (it is worth an extra 25% of your donation).

If you would like further information on SLEDT’s Solar Lamp Project or to make suggestions, please contact
our supporter Dr Laurel Spooner
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