SociaLite Lighting Systems

Engineering for the Middle of Nowhere

August 2019

Stopping Child Marriage

One of the avowed aims of SociaLite …


It’s estimated that more than 100 million girls under the age of 18 will be married in the next decade—but in Ethiopia a scheme involving solar lamps is helping thousands of girls stay in school longer and avoid marriage until they are adults. A film by Ruth Evans, Lily Freeston and Hadra Ahmed Watch the movie here.