What is the impact of an OffGridBox?
The deployment of an OffGridBox in a rural community has a wide range of impact. We are still discovering new levels of impact and attempting to measure them, but please note it is still a work in progress.
New skills acquired following employment by OffGridBox
women employment: up to 10 trained (up to 4 hired)
- financial literacy
- solar and water system maintenance
- english skills and technical literacy (android app)
- ‘soft skills’ (such as communication, problem-solving, confidence, negotiation, goal setting, etc)Income
twice the average salary of a male in rural Rwanda
Individual (in employee’s own name) savings account
before employment: TBD
after employment: TBD
Increased decision making in the home
TBD who makes decisions about household spending – before and after employment
TBD do they have greater input into household decisions since being employed
Other positive outcomes
benefits for local businesses
- larger margin on bottled water for local shops
- less “down time“ for restocking inventory
- electricity for services (hair buzzer for barber shop, general lighting, etc)
Mwogo (the ‘Golden Pilot’)
Bugesera District, Mwogo sector, Rurenge Cellule (Population in Nyamata City Area: 34'922 people)
installation: 25th | July | 2018
- solar energy harvested: 2542 kWh
- power banks re-charged: 2964 recharges
- water purified: 129.5 cbm
- families with access to purified water: 456 kits
- kids with access to purified water: 1368 kids
- CO2 avoided (Vs diesel): 1649 kg
-- wifi (Mb used): 405 Gb
-- employees and partners (# of boxkeepers, bikers, shops, kiosks, etc):
2 Box Keepers, 1 Bicyclist, 1 Motorcyclist, 1 Security Guard
1 Primary School with 10 professors (getting services from us in exchange for the location)
45 retailers of water in the area, 1 water truck
5 Village Sales Agents, 3 Point of Services for battery recharging
-- jerrycans distributed in small shops (liters, because we have 5liters and 20 liters. bottles)
70,800 liters sold (plus 20 cbm for PAYG customers and for internal technical usages)
-- women trained: 5 operators