The Solar Electric Light Fund (www.SELF.org) is a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit whose mission is to design and implement solar energy solutions to assist the 1.2 billion people living in energy poverty with their economic, educational, health care and agricultural development.
Since 1990, SELF has completed projects in more than 20 countries and pioneered unique applications of solar power for drip irrigation in Benin, vaccine refrigeration in Haiti, telemedicine in the Amazon rainforest, online learning in South Africa, microenterprise development in Nigeria, and community development in Colombia.