GivePower

For the second year in a row, WASH is back in classrooms across Kenya. Together with Xylem, our team is visiting 16 schools to educate 6,830 students about WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) practices that help reduce the spread of illness, prevent waterborne diseases and keep students in the classroom.

Safe water is just one piece of the puzzle. Building lifelong healthy habits matters, too, and we’re excited to share more from GivePower’s WASH efforts soon.

Every mother around the world deserves safe, reliable care for her children and herself.

But today, health facilities serve more than 1 billion people with no electricity or reliable power. Without reliable electricity, even basic maternal and neonatal care becomes difficult.

In many clinics, healthcare workers rely on flashlights or cell phones to deliver babies at night. Meanwhile, life-saving equipment can’t be powered when it’s needed most.

Together we're helping to change that. Over the last decade, we’ve brought clean energy to clinics across eight countries, reaching over 236,000 people.

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In 2024, "Happy Sidi" was a local mother of two simply trying to make ends meet.

One day, she noticed contractors clearing the bush and preparing the ground for what would soon become a GivePower Solar Water Farm in Mtwapa, Kenya. That’s when inspiration struck: the team would need food while working under the scorching coastal sun.

So, Happy Sidi launched a small catering hustle. Every day, she delivered ugali, fish and tea to the workers on-site.

Months later, safe drinking water began flowing. Nearby communities flocked to the new GivePower Solar Water Farm, where safe water was finally accessible and affordable. Mothers, children and boda-boda (motorcycle taxi) drivers became some of the first customers as the site quickly came to life. Just 200 meters away, boda-boda drivers began creating a new gathering place as economic activity around the Solar Water Farm grew.

Happy Sidi saw another opportunity: where people gather, people get hungry. She used her savings to build a small food kiosk, locally known as "Kibandaski," serving boda-boda drivers and their customers. This time, instead of cooking from home, she brought her business directly to where opportunity was growing.

Then, GivePower began sending bowsers to distribute safe water deeper into the community. Happy Sidi stood in line like everyone else, but while others waited, she was thinking ahead. She saw how far some mothers still had to walk, and how quickly the bowser’s water supply ran out.

So, Happy Sidi took her boldest leap yet. She purchased a 5,000-liter water tank and opened a licensed water kiosk, helping bring safe water closer to her neighbors.

Today, Happy Sidi is more than a business owner. She is proof that where safe water access grows, opportunity flows. In her own words, "GivePower brought us water. Water brought people together. And people brought business."

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