Our Impact

OneLamp has initial operations in Uganda. Our customers include off grid households and small medium businesses located in rural & peri - urban areas without access to the national grid. In rural areas 58.1 percent of households use kerosene for lighting and over 89% of rural households are not reached by the grid compared to 34% unconnected in urban areas across the country. Once solar systems are installed in their homes, our customers’ children are able to revise class notes after school improving their termly academic performance. Female customers are able to be more productive during the evenings for example some women start mobile charging businesses to get additional income for their household.

Access to digital television allows rural women to watch empowering programs and watch the news, becoming more aware of current affairs in their country. Access to solar refrigeration holds unique potential to unlock economic and social progress for 80% of small enterprises located in rural and semi-urban offgrid areas of Uganda. Besides improving the daily incomes earned by offgrid retailers and it also prolongs the shelf life of fresh foods, beverages and vegetables sold by local retailers. At household level, providing access to solar refrigeration systems diversifies and enhances family diets, and reduces time spent shopping or preparing food (particularly by women and girls). In addition, improved access to cold chain technologies could help avoid nearly a quarter of that food waste thereby reducing food insecurity.

To date OneLamp products have enabled over 50,000 off-grid households to save $30 million that could have been used to buy kerosene fuel for lighting, created extra 120million study hours for school-going children living in off-grid homes, and also eliminated harmful exposure to 50million kgs of CO2 emissions.