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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -13.9pt 0pt 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">SolarAid is a small charity set up by Vicky and some colleagues from the world of renewable energy in 2006.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It fights poverty and climate change together with solar power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Barely 2% of rural Africa has access to the grid yet many regions of Africa have the highest levels of sunshine in the world. SolarAid’s approach is simple and effective: working with remote and disadvantaged communities, helping them tap into an abundant source of free, clean and </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -13.9pt 0pt 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">renewable energy - the sun!</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -13.9pt 0pt 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">SolarAid’s work involves installing solar systems on schools, </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">clinics </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -13.9pt 0pt 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">and community centres in South and Eastern Africa. It also </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -13.9pt 0pt 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">helps people to set up businesses, offering sales and marketing training and enabling them to use solar energy as a means of generating a sustainable income.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Richard and Vicky have pledged to raise £1000 for SolarAid over the next twelve months. Richard will be running in the Hastings half marathon on 20th March and they have several other fundraising ideas coming up, including car boot and ebay selling and the chance to get your house eco-audited by Richard in return for a donation! Please give generously!</span></p>