Power a Life

What it does

Premium corporate branded merchandise that funds education and solar light for children in Africa. Retail-quality custom gifting with seamless global logistics.

Beautiful, retail-quality custom branded gifts that fund solar lights and learning tools for children in rural Africa. Handled with absolute precision, delivered globally. Seven years ago, we set out into the bush of West Africa to live alongside families without electricity. What we discovered changed everything: children were unable to study at night, locking whole generations out of secondary education. That was the spark behind Power a Life. Through participatory photo workshops with local children, we learned firsthand that lack of light after sunset was the single biggest obstacle to education. We piloted solar lights in Zimbabwe primary schools. Exam scores tripled in just 8 weeks…from poweralife.com

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