Local Training

Today, we are taking the final step before going to the field to actually install the solar panel systems. 

40 youths from the Center for Champions vocational school are here to train together with PolyU students, in preparation for the field work.  This is an important part of the preparation, and is also part of the service.  

On the one hand, we do not know the local environment and do not speak the local language Kinyarwanda.  We need these local youths to help us communicate with the villagers. 

On the other hand, we are here not just to install solar panels, so that the villages can have electricity.  We are training the local youths in the technology so that they can help maintain the systems after we have departed.  Hopefully, they are also empowered by the knowledge and the skills, for their own education career. 

In the mean time, we also have some students from partner universities in the University Social Responsibility Network Universities and staff from our partner in Tanzania, who are also participating in the training.

It is roughly estimated that there are ~100 people involved in the training today. And this is still not the whole team.