Water is a vital resource anywhere but it remains a very scarce commodity in Puntland, North Eastern Somalia.
The people living in the farmlands get their water, often of very poor quality, from waterholes in remote locations and have to carry it home in plastic containers. They spend hours every day collecting water that is often unsafe to drink.

The SNG Charity will design and install effective and sustainable water supply and disposal systems for its partner farmers.

Experts will be commissioned to carry out this work as soon as funds permit. Solar power projects in Somalia, Somalia is a sun-drenched country, so Solar Power can play an important role in filling the huge potential for Somalia’s solar power generating capacity.

One challenge has always been how to deliver a consumer proposition that would be affordable for some of the poorest people, particularly in rural areas, where overall economic improvement and night-time activities are practically non-existent because there is no electricity.

SNG will show that by sharing more equitably the value of the farming crops, the resources needed to install solar panels in remote locations can be achieved and thereby transform the lives of the communities. When there is no electricity, farmers cannot think about the economic advantage of water pumps and refrigeration, and people cannot make productive use of their time to carry out the most basic tasks such as ironing clothes or charging a phone, and children cannot study in the day or at night without proper access to the internet and light.

The SNG Charity wants to develop and install an innovative solar powered solution that will provide the poorest people in rural areas with access to a clean, reliable and affordable source of electricity.