{"id":42193,"date":"2017-02-03T15:30:13","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T20:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging21.finca.org\/uncategorized-en-ca\/brightening-their-future"},"modified":"2024-11-04T02:26:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T07:26:21","slug":"brightening-their-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finca.org\/en-ca\/brightening-their-future","title":{"rendered":"Brightening Their Future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Walakira Grace, a married mother who lives in Mbalala, Uganda, is a FINCA BrightLife<\/a> client. She and her children rely on BrightLife’s clean energy, solar lamps to be able to complete their schoolwork. She also relies on FINCA loans to be able to pay for school fees to educate her children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI struggled to pay for their education,\u201d she says. \u201cWe were getting school fees from FINCA.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The solar lanterns are especially helpful when FINCA clients are sensitive to financing. Where sustaining a kerosene lantern might cost 500 shillings (less than USD 1) per day or more, the solar lantern relies only on sunlight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Walakira and her family find the solar lamps incredibly helpful for reading, doing homework, preparing meals, looking for things and gathering as a family. As she says, \u201cBecause I do not buy sunshine, there isn\u2019t any cost that I incur.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Walathira