Viridian Energy is on its way to fulfilling its seven-year commitment (Seven Continents in Seven Years) with a trip to Ghana providing sustainable energy to villages. The company sent 34 representatives to install solar panels in schools, medical clinics, and community libraries in Asonafo, Abrenya, and Wekpeti.
The team’s installations enable schools to implement lantern checkout systems, allowing students to continue their studies in their homes. The company also installed merry-go-rounds on school playgrounds that generate electricity for the school’s needs. Health clinics were given the panels to help combat the repeated power failure effects on vaccination fridges.
To ensure that the project is sustainable, Viridian associates helped educate the residents on how to maintain the new equipment. In addition, World Joy will periodically visit the villages to help maintain the solar panels.
"What a remarkable and joyful thing it was, to witness light in a home after dark where none had existed before," said Cami Boehme, Viridian VP of Marketing and Brand Communications. "I do not know what was brighter, the light in the eyes of the parents and children, or the light of the lanterns! Abrenya, until only two months ago, did not even have a road leading to it, one had to walk to it by foot, and the nearest road was an hour and a half away. Being a part of the Viridian team that brought lanterns for the students, installed merry-go-rounds on the schools’ playgrounds, and introduced sustainable energy to the villagers made me grateful to work for a company who is ready and willing to meet the energy needs of other countries."
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