At 3am, Mariam Hassan was on a labor bed when the clinic went dark. The solar panels outside the Munje dispensary had been catching the sun all day, but at night—just as her delivery began—the system failed. Mariam, who has hearing and…
On the factory floor in Calabar, a port city in southern Nigeria, rows of solar home systems move steadily along an assembly line staffed largely by young women. For many, it is their first job and a first step toward financial…
