In rural Liberia, students struggle to prepare for their examinations without access to electricity after sunset. Yocel, an educational youth organization, collaborated with GIZ/EnDev to inform around 600 students about solar energy and solar lamps. The partnership then established a system that would allow 9th graders and 12th graders to borrow solar lamps.

The project was implemented in early 2016 in four schools in Montserrado and Bomi. The schools were Pleemu High, Koon Town Public School and Nyehn Public School, Todee Statutory District, Montserrado County and Suehn Mecca central high school in Bomi County. Yocel conducted a 30-minute presentation with students, outlining the importance of solar energy and the use of the solar lamps. Then 9th graders and 12th graders could borrow Waka-Waka lamps.

In total, 171 students (66 girls and 96 boys) of four schools received a lamp to prepare for their examinations in 9th or 12th grade. The lamps belong to the school and have to be given back so that the next group of students can use them to prepare for their examinations.