1. Have you noticed what happen’s when people say “SunnyMoney” for the first time? Try out the SunnyMoney test on people you meet and you will see it has interesting effect. :)

     
    2. Dec 16th, 2012     SunnyMoneySolarSmileSunSunshineSolarAid

  2. How many lights?

    I’m really excited. We’ve created a new sort of currency at SolarAid.

    1 SL = £ 6 or $9

    An ‘SL’ is a solar light of course. 

    SolarAid is on a mission to sell 300,000 solar lights by the end of March to people in Africa who use kerosene for light. 

    Every time we sell a solar light we worked out it currently costs SolarAid £6.

    The £6 pays for the cost of promoting solar lights through our SunnyMoney teams in remote rural communities. It’s the cost of offering families choice of quality solar lights that meet their needs. Choice. Isn’t that a great word? That’s the power when people become ‘customers’ not recipients of aid. 

    So you could say £6 cost of getting a solar light into the hands of someone prepared to buy it. In effect you’re sharing the cost of a solar light.

    So we have 300,000 solar lights to share the cost with. And the great thing is the more we sell the more that cost will fall. Then we won’t need charity (not that charity is a bad thing - it’s just its good to know we have an end plan).

    “How many lights would you like to fund?’ feels so much more powerful than asking “How much would you like to give?”. And when individuals do that remarkable and magical act of donating we can truly say your £60 gift has funded 10 solar lights.

    So we are going to launch a campaign to ask the world to share the cost of a solar light.

    This is why I am so excited. 

    I’m up for sharing the cost of 30 over the year. That’s just £15 a month.

    299,970 to go.

    How many will you fund?

     
    3. Aug 12th, 2012     solarsolaraid

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    Feeling battered and bruised but positive about the road ahead
    — Sean Conway, having been hit by a truck on his world record attempt, and hearing he can continue his bid to be the fastest person to cycle the earth
     
    4. Mar 27th, 2012     Sean ConwayWorld RecordCyclingSolar

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    Solar - the power to dream

     “We are at peace”

    This was the first thing Rose said when I asked what difference solar power has made. Rose is the manager of Cheryl’s Children’s Home, an orphanage in Nairobi, where 73 children live aged between 3 and 12 and a further 130 receive schooling through the foster care programme.

     

    In the past if there was a power cut in this part of Nairobi, or worse still they had their power suddenly cut off because they couldn’t keep up their electricity payments, the children at the orphanage would be afraid. “Now there is no fear because whatever happens we have light”.

    Rose went on to say what they no longer have.

    Now money they save from the use of solar power can be used for medication, food, or water.

    “We don’t have lack of water because we have to pay their electricity bill”.

    “We don’t have lack of food because we have to pay their electricity bill”.

    Solar power provides much more than light. With the money they now save it provides water, food and medicine. But it provides even more as I soon realised.

    As I finished my visit I met three children and able to ask them questions. The question that finally got them to relax was“What football team do you support?”!  I then asked what they wanted to be when they grew up. The answers: a newsreader (Liverpool), a journalist (Manchester United) and a pilot (Chelsea).

    I learned something very important from my visit. In addition to providing cost savings which helps to run the orphanage,solar power has taken away children’s fears and allowed them to dream.

     
    5. Dec 1st, 2011     KenyaSolarDreamChelseaLiverpoolManchester United

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    SUNSHINE ON A RAINY DAY. Meet Bob Agar as I did today. He and his mum run a business in Kaberia, Nairobi, selling solar lights from SunnyMoney. People like solar as its safer and they don’t have to pay to use electricity from the unpredictable grid.

    SUNSHINE ON A RAINY DAY. Meet Bob Agar as I did today. He and his mum run a business in Kaberia, Nairobi, selling solar lights from SunnyMoney. People like solar as its safer and they don’t have to pay to use electricity from the unpredictable grid.

     
    6. Oct 19th, 2011     solarSunnyMoneyentrepreneur