Solar-charging backpacks are helping children to read after dark
- James founded Soma Bags to provide solar backpacks that charge reading lights for children in rural Tanzania.
- Last year, Soma Bags sold 36,000 solar backpacks across Africa, helping families save money compared to kerosene lamps.
- Fewer than half of households in mainland Tanzania have electricity, forcing many children to go to bed early.
- James runs reading groups for children and employs 65 staff at his factory in Bulale, which he built in 2020.
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