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We're excited to announce that the Kenya team have just taken delivery of 500 units of our new and improved microsolar product - the Kadzuwa 1000! (Kadzuwa means 'little sun' in Chichewa, a language used widely in Malawi, where the product was first developed).

With harvest time upon us in Kenya we anticipate an increase in seasonal income. We try to adhere to the seasonal patterns of income and so we forecast lower sales figures of microsolar products during the hungry season and higher sales during the harvest season.

SolarChill update
In our last blog, we told you about an exciting new partnership with SolarChill. We're very pleased to announce that the first SolarChill fridge has now been installed in a clinic in Mahuru Bay. This is a pilot testing phase but we hope to be implementing more solar fridges in clinics across Kenya. During this pilot stage we'll be looking in particular at how effective the fridge is, how user-friendly it is and we'll also consider any space issues within the fridge itself. Ultimately we'd like to replace all generator-powered fridges with SolarChill fridges. We'll be prioritising clinics that currently have little or no supplies and resources. Having access to refrigeration opens up many possibilities to these rural services, storing vaccinations and blood samples being just two examples.

Finally, I'll soon be arriving in Nairobi for the start of an extended period in Kenya and Zambia, and so I'll have more updates from the field soon.

Until then!
Miguel

In Kenya, we're busy planning for the arrival of the soon-to-be-recruited Micro-franchise Co-ordinator.

We're also about to start an exciting partnership with SolarChill. Their product - a solar powered vaccine refridgerator- is already on the market. SolarAid will be working with the organisation as part of an experimental process, in the hope to roll out implementation of the SolarChill fridge at all SolarAid macro-solar clinics in the coming months. This is an exciting new phase for SolarAid Kenya.

In other news, we are soon to reach the end of a 12 week product testing period. The results so far show that our mass-produced product will be highly effective and will very efficiently meet the lighting needs of rural Kenyans. We feel optimistic about this product so watch this space.

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