Solar Homes Helping to End ‘Power Discrimination’ in Bangladesh

DHAKA, Nov. 30 (NsNewsWire) — Electricity, the very thing bringing these words to your eyes, is inaccessible to 45 percent of Bangladesh’s population.
Fewer than half the people living in the country’s rural areas are on the power grid at all. That’s why the Solar Home System Project, launched in 2007, is particularly good news for Bangladesh, reports Global Voices.
A partnership between the state-owned Infrastructure Development Company Limited (a World-Bank-funded project) and about 40 NGOs (including private-sector companies and microcredit agencies), the Solar Home System Project has helped bring electricity and lightning to roughly 3 million homes, affecting more than 20 million lives.

Recently, Bangladesh celebrated the successful installment of 3 million solar home systems.