Author: Steve Andrews

I'm CEO of SolarAid, an NGO that owns SunnyMoney, a company selling solar lights (and trying to catalyse the wider market for solar lights). In May 2012, we sold 21,208 lights, more than we sold in the whole of 2011. By the time a update this profile, that stat will be very out of date!

Does Scaling Up Compromise our Social Mission?

When charities concentrate on measuring the impact of their work it is easy to justify certain inefficiencies or not reaching scale, but a business wouldn’t have that attitude. That’s why SolarAid have chosen a business based approach; our mission to eradicate the kerosene lamp from Africa requires that we get solar lights to people at […]