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May 26, 2020

Life under the new normal at Pawame

Our operating environment changed overnight on March 13th, when Kenya recorded its first known case on COVID-19. As so many other governments around the world, the Kenyan government has since balanced between containing the spread of the virus and maintaining people’s livelihoods. …

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Life under the new normal at Pawame
Life under the new normal at Pawame

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Apr 24, 2020

The Global Off-Grid Solar Forum comes to Nairobi

2020 started out with a bang for Pawame and Nairobi as a whole: the city that we are proud to have as our home was also host to over 1,250 off-grid solar professionals attending the Global Off-Grid Solar Forum and Expo hosted by GOGLA and the World Bank Group’s Lighting…

Offgrid Solar

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The Global Off-Grid Solar Forum comes to Nairobi
The Global Off-Grid Solar Forum comes to Nairobi
Offgrid Solar

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Dec 19, 2019

PawaTeam Day

The Pawame team is always looking to learn new things! To help make that possible, we hosted a field team training day and team building day in November at our Nairobi headquarters. This was a much-anticipated event for the 70 participants from across Pawame’s field and sales operations and headquarters…

Energy

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PawaTeam Day
PawaTeam Day
Energy

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Oct 16, 2019

Meet Margaret Noor Tiren: Breaking through poverty using a Pawame solar home kit

By Anne Njathi and Davina Ngei and edited by Maureen Onyango and Linda Davis, Ph.D; originally published on wPOWER: Partnership on Women’s Entrepreneurship in Renewables Margaret Noor Tiren was born in the conflict-torn area of Mukutani, Baringo County, Kenya (about 300 kms northwest of Nairobi). Due to a lack of…

Kenya

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MEET MARGARET NOOR TIREN: BREAKING THROUGH POVERTY USING A PAWAME SOLAR HOME KIT
MEET MARGARET NOOR TIREN: BREAKING THROUGH POVERTY USING A PAWAME SOLAR HOME KIT
Kenya

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Aug 30, 2019

Coffee and Company Culture

The third Thursday of every month, we notice how few chairs we have. All of us, Pawame Headquarters staff and employees, gather around a large table outside for Coffee with the CEO. Everyone shows up early, loading up on mandazi (think: East African beignet)and hot milky tea, staking out spots…

Leadership

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Coffee and Company Culture
Coffee and Company Culture
Leadership

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Jul 29, 2019

Sitting Down with Laura Sundblad, Pawame’s New Corporate Development Manager

Laura Sundblad, the newest addition to Pawame’s Leadership team, to my untrained eyes and ears, knows everything about and everyone in the off-grid solar space. She’s also the kind of person who will graciously sit through an interview (on her birthday!), …

Energy

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Sitting Down with Laura Sundblad, Pawame’s New Corporate Development Manager
Sitting Down with Laura Sundblad, Pawame’s New Corporate Development Manager
Energy

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Jun 24, 2019

Going the Distance, No Matter the Weather

Just 88 miles from Nairobi, the equator runs squarely through Pawame’s area of operation. This means that almost everything about our business is influenced by a fickle, oft extreme — and changing — climate. The North of Kenya is dry, prone to drought; while the the South is mountainous and…

Climate Change

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Going the Distance, No Matter the Weather
Going the Distance, No Matter the Weather
Climate Change

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May 16, 2019

Using Solar Home System Customer Insights, Pawame Pilots Educational Loans

Since Pawame was founded in 2016, it has been driven by the idea that energy is just the beginning. We’ve known for a long time that our solar home systems can have a transformative development impact in the lives of our customers; and we’re proud of the fumes from kerosene…

Social Enterprise

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Using Solar Home System Customer Insights, Pawame Pilots Educational Loans
Using Solar Home System Customer Insights, Pawame Pilots Educational Loans
Social Enterprise

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Apr 10, 2019

We Believe in Sustainability, So We’re Breaking Even

Since the UN wrote its goals in 2015, the term Sustainable Development has moved farther from its academic definition and into the common lexicon where, in the private sector, it’s become a marketing panacea and an often meaningless tenant of CSR. …

Sustainability

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We Believe in Sustainability, So We’re Breaking Even
We Believe in Sustainability, So We’re Breaking Even
Sustainability

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