GenPro Energy Solutions solar and water pumping teams will be headed to eManzana Mpumalanga, South Africa to install a solar (PV) energy system and solar irrigation system at an orphanage and macadamia nut farm through the Spark Foundation.
The 7-kWh system will allow for the orphanage and farm, which feeds 1,800 children in the region each day, to be self-sustaining.
The Spark Foundation South Africa was founded in 2010 by Mitch and Charlotte Hildebrant of Rapid City, South Dakota to help feed South African children while providing skills training to the local workforce.
"The generosity and kindness of GenPro will impact generations to come,”explained Mitch Hildebrant.
"The government has many problems with their power grid and has now implemented rolling and mandatory power outages for two to three hours each day. The system allows our dreams of operating a 1,600 macadamia tree farm and five acre vegetable garden in a sustainable fashion. The farm is also used for long term missionary housing, short term volunteer housing, laborers, skills training and the financial output needed to feed 1,800 children in the region each day."