This project will empower 800 smallholder farmers in most rural communities of the Eastern Province of Zambia with training in sustainable agriculture, farming inputs, and reliable markets for their produce. Our goal is to move 800 of these smallholder farmers from living in poverty into the middle-class status, enabling them to increase their income from the current $133 per hectare to $357 by the end of this project through the promotion of legume farming.

This project will recruit 100 women and provide them with a series of training in gender and empowerment, sales and marketing, cash management, and business skills. These new entrepreneurs will be given a $300 line of credit to purchase energy-saving products that they can sell within their community. This project will take place in the remote and impoverished villages of Eastern Province of Zambia.

Kukula Solar plans to distribute 10,000 modern clean cookstoves to 10,000 families in rural communities of the Eastern Province of Zambia to reduce deforestation and avoid 100,000 tons of CO2 in the next 5 years while improving health, quality of life,livelihood of people and protecting the forests.

This project will supply 10,227 solar lamps in three villages of Eastern Zambia namely Mphamba, Tigone, and Kanyanga in Lumezi District. The solar lamps will enable 6,000 households to save up to $1,000,000 from kerosene purchases within a year of owning a solar lamp. It will enable children to study when the sun sets and improve their school performance to enable them to remain in school and reduce early marriages. Environmentally, The project will save more than 10,000 tonnes of CO2 emission.

This project will supply 20,000 solar lamps in Mafuta, Chinunda & Munukwa Chiefdoms of Eastern Zambia to women and girls living on less than $2 a day. The solar lamps will enable women to save up to $2 Million from kerosene purchases within a year of owning a solar lamp. It will enable girls to study when the sun sets and improve their school performance to enable them to remain in school and reduce early marriages. Environmentally, The project will save more than 20,000 tonnes of CO2 emission.

This projects funds a self-sustaining microfinance initiative issuing collateral-free, interest-bearing loans, for as little as $50, to poor women in rural Zambia to assist them in starting businesses, building assets, and gaining business skills so that they can generate income on a long-term basis, permanently improving their household living standards, and achieving financial independence for themselves and their families.