Lighting Africa is a $12 million project which intends to bring light to the poorest regions across sub-Saharan Africa. The program works with the lighting industry to develop clean, affordable lighting and energy solutions for millions without access to electric grids. Its aim is to accelerate the market and to develop education programs that inform. off-grid populations currently dependent on costly, inefficient and hazardous fuel-based lighting about modern alternatives.
Cecile used to spend $3-4 a month on kerosene for her lamp. That is a large proportion of her earnings—like 70 percent of the population she lives on less than $2 a day. In the weeks since buying her lantern she has managed to read four books including Madame Bovary. by Gustave Flaubert and Emile Zola's Germinal. She is among the most learned in a society which has the world's lowest literacy rate, according to a 2007 UN Human Development Report. When she graduates next year she will teach in a local junior school She makes ends meet by holiday jobs as a cleaner and an IT trainer. To earn her daily ration of cornmeal she does shifts from May to September in a corn field.
The lanterns are designed to look like the kerosene ones they are replacing in order to increase adoption among the population. Each has a small solar panel on the top and costs an average $30, although some cost $100, depending on the size of the battery and the number of LED lights it contains.
Because of the large number of sunlight hours in Burkina Faso, the lamps can be relied on to work whenever needed. The battery life is 2-4 years, and can be replaced once they lose their storage capacity. The LED lights last 5-10 years.
Although it is barely out of its trial period the project, Chabanne said there are signs the project is a boon for the population in areas other than household savings and education. "There are fewer people reporting eye problems to the local hospital."
The word "swap" (Line 4, Para. 1 ) most probably means ______.
A.to exchange
B.to destroy
C.to invent
D.to copy
第1题
第2题
人际交往的白金法则是
A你希望别人如何对待你,你就如何对待别人
B我如何对待别人,别人也应如何对待我
C别人希望你怎样对待他,你就怎样对待他
D别人如何对待我,我也要如何对待他
第3题
王老师非常关心别人对他的看法,经常问自己“学生.同事.领导如何看待我?”王老师处于成长的()
A.关注生存阶段
B.关注情境阶段
C.关注学生阶段
D.关注角色阶段
第4题
吉列公司对业绩的考虑
你是否觉得吉列公司是一个成功的企业?吉列公司是如何评价自己的管理绩效的?
第5题
A.没关系,你给多少都行,反正我是新手。
B.四五千一个月吧,以后干得好再涨。
C.咱们这个地区同类公司新员工的工资一般是3000元左右,相信贵公司也不会亏待我的。
D.和其他人一样就行了。
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