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SOLARKIOSK offers farmers in rural Tanzania a better Access to Markets, with its new reverse supply chain program
Photo: Sales Manager Philip Labre supervising the packaging of rice at Turiani, Morogoro region, Tanzania. When we think of supply chain management, we tend to imagine a one-way street, where the supplies go from the producer through a middle-man

EQUITY BANK and SOLARKIOSK Kenya partner to finance solar products for SOLARKIOSK customers
SOLARKIOSK Kenya has partnered with Equity Bank to roll out merchant outlets across all E-HUBBs in Kenya. Twenty-six of our Kenyan E-HUBB operators recently underwent training on EcoMoto, a platform powered by Equitel. EcoMoto enables customers to access loans

SOLARKIOSK partners with Honey Care Africa
SOLARKIOSK is happy to announce a partnership with Honey Care Africa to distribute local, honey-based food products in Kenya. Honey Care Africa works closely together with Kenyan farmers to bring to market the best quality honey and healthy honey-based

SOLARKIOSK was invited to speak at the Munich Security Conference kick-off event
“Collaboration with local partners and civil society actors has become an undisputed part of comprehensive and effective international development cooperation. However, the question of how to deal with the old economic elites in the process of social transformation has not

Local bakery buys and sells at SOLARKIOSK E-HUBBS
Over the course of the last three years SOLARKIOSK has been bridging the gap between local producers and consumers. Across 56 local communities in Rwanda, the E-HUBBs are perceived by the local communities as a connecting link between factory

Meet Jeannette Umuhoza, one of SOLARKIOSK´s 56 female E-HUBB operators in Rwanda
Meet Jeannette Umuhoza, one of SOLARKIOSK´s 56 female E-HUBB operators in Rwanda. Jeannette joined the Solarkiosk Rwanda team in 2014 as one of the first SOLARKIOSK operators in Rwanda. She manages the E-HUBB in the village of Rubona where she

SOLARKIOSK joins the Smart Communities Coalition to transform refugee settlements into digital communities
Today Mastercard and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced the launch of a public-private coalition that will bring together technology, solutions and experience from multiple sectors to transform refugee settlements into digitally-connected communities. This commitment delivers on a

SOLARKIOSK in the Süddeutsche Zeitung
SOLARKIOSK’s efforts to bring solar energy into East Africa’s rural communities have been reported in one of Germany’s largest daily newspapers – the Süddeutsche Zeitung.

SOLARKIOSK strengthens last mile distribution with motor bike safety training
One of the most important factors in last mile distribution is enabling safe transport for your employees. SOLARKIOSK’s Area Officers, who supervise the daily operations of SOLARKIOSK’s E-HUBBs, use motorbikes to visit the 5-8 E-HUBBs they manage. The roads

SOLARKIOSK, ERGO and Munich Re inaugurate a new E-HUBB in Migori county
Single-storey house lining a red dirt road, trees dotted between the buildings, children and goats playing everywhere: This is Wath Onger, the location of one of five E-HUBBs implemented by SOLARKIOSK in Migori county in Kenya with the generous support

Impact: Putting your metrics where our mouth is!
There has been a lot of talk about impact in recent years, particularly in the impact investment crowd and within social enterprise circles, i.e. the investees. But on what basis can investors or businesses really claim to be impactful and

A royal E-HUBB visit in Ethiopia
The SOLARKIOSK team in Ethiopia recently welcomed the Crown Prince of Norway Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit, along with delegates of several Norwegian renewable energy companies in an E-HUBB in Butajira cluster. Representatives of Innovation Norway who organized the visit