UPDATED POST - January 5, 2011

Evans Wadongo, one of our favorite partners, has received the CNN Heroes Award for his work producing solar lights for the rural poor in Kenya. IIRR is grateful to Evans because of his tireless and passionate work constructing the low-cost solar lights that IIRR purchases for schoolchildren as part of its Pastoralist Education Program in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Uganda.

You can see the inspirational story about Evans Wadongo on CNN here - "Saving Lives with Solar Lights" February 12, 2010

UPDATE -

you can click here to see the most recent video about IIRR's Pastoralist Education Program which also highlights the use of the solar lamps from Evans Wadongo.  (new video produced by Two Parrot Productions)

we have also received additional footage from the CNN shoot that shows IIRR staff discussing the needs of schoolchildren in the Pastoralist areas.  you can see the video here but will most likely need to download the VLC Player to be able to view it.