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Last Mile Learning: the social in social enterprise

As a social enterprise, Solar Sister uses a market-driven approach, combining donor investment and earned revenues from product sales, to…

3 min readAug 7, 2018

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Last Mile Learning: the social in social enterprise

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Last Mile Learning: do incentives work?

While bringing new women into Solar Sister’s network is critical for reaching more people with clean energy, we know that our goals for…

3 min readJul 2, 2018

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Last Mile Learning: The Power of Social Networks

And we don’t mean Twitter or Facebook…

3 min readMay 15, 2018

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Last Mile Learning: The Power of Social Networks

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Last Mile Learning: Why Small Solutions are Making a Big Impact

While many in the energy sector are of the mindset that bigger is always better, Solar Sister knows from both experience and data that for…

3 min readApr 26, 2018

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Last Mile Learning: Why Small Solutions are Making a Big Impact

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Last Mile Learning: Breaking down barriers

Solar Sister and Women for Women International partner to help low-income women overcome financial barriers in Nigeria’s energy market.

5 min readMar 29, 2018

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Women are the solution to energy poverty

International Women’s Day started over a hundred years ago, rooted in the suffragette movement pushing for women’s right to vote. Today, we…

3 min readMar 6, 2018

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Women are the solution to energy poverty

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Last Mile Learning: How local assistance and trust motivate last-mile customers

MIT CITE research finds that Solar Sister’s model built on social networks and women entrepreneurs is reaching last-mile consumers…

4 min readFeb 22, 2018

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Last Mile Learning: How local assistance and trust motivate last-mile customers

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Empowerment Journeys

In our Journeys series, we brought you updates from Hilaria and Halima, two Solar Sister entrepreneurs from Tanzania. Today we launch…

1 min readFeb 14, 2018

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Empowerment Journeys

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Last Mile Learning: Motorbikes make the sales

Solar Sister data shows that mobility, specifically access to motorbikes, is a major factor for success among Solar Sister entrepreneurs…

2 min readJan 31, 2018

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Last Mile Learning: Motorbikes make the sales

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WESHINE brighter — stories from the heart

Meet our Solar Sister entrepreneurs!

2 min readJan 25, 2018

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WESHINE brighter — stories from the heart

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Solar Sister

Solar Sister

Light. Hope. Opportunity. Using the power of women's enterprise to distribute clean energy technology in rural Africa.

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