How we support SolarAid.org

At Infinit, we are happy to announce that we support the various projects undertaken by SolarAid.org to bring power to some of the most poverty-stricken regions across the globe and to fight climate change. We will make a 5% donation with every Infinit Solar Backpack sold on our website to the SolarAid cause.

We will also be working with SolarAid on other related projects in the near future to raise awareness for and to support their cause.

About SolarAid

Although SolarAid was officially started in 2006, the thinking behind it goes back much further, to the founding of Solarcentury eight years ago by Dr Jeremy Leggett, who had worked in the oil industry in the 1980s and then became Chief Scientist at Greenpeace in the late 1980s when he became aware of the threat of climate change.

Nowadays, SolarAid is different to your usual international charity. They have joined the fights against global poverty and climate change in a way not done before. And from the start, they have aimed to bring together the professionalism of the commercial sector with the values of the charity sector in order to create an organization that will bridge the gap between both. That's why entrepreneurialism and innovation are at the heart of what they do.

Power to the people

Two of the biggest threats facing humanity today are climate change and global poverty. SolarAid helps to combat both, simply by bringing clean, renewable power to the poorest people in the world.

Fighting poverty

Right now, two billion people have no access to electricity. They rely on burning fuels such as kerosene and wood for light and heat, which is highly toxic and expensive. Having solar power improves people's health, income and education. That's because solar power can enable poor people to cook food, pump clean water, run fridges, light homes, schools and hospitals, farm more effectively, and much more.

Fighting climate change

Climate change is mainly due to the massive and continuing use of burning fossil fuels for energy. This has pumped vast amounts of greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide, into the atmosphere. At the same time, we have destroyed vast tracts of forest, which has released billions of tonnes of carbon.
By replacing carbon-emitting products with solar power, and reducing our
dependency on burning wood and fossil fuels we can alleviate global warming.

Fact:

The average kerosene lamp, used widely across the developing world, creates around a tonne of carbon over seven years. Replacing these lamps with solar lanterns will lead to significant reductions in carbon emissions.


You can make a direct donation to SolarAid.org by clicking here.