Carbon Credit for Humanitarian Solar Power

Thanks to your Humanitarian Carbon Credit donations in 2019 and 2020, we have reached over 340 households living in extreme poverty, and in the dark.

In the last months of 2019, 23 impoverished families lit their home and recharged their phones with solar kits with a $20 co-pay. Your voluntary carbon credit donations made that 80% subsidy possible so impoverished families can have a chance at progress after 6pm; by studying, weaving or communicating with others.

In 2020, Earth Day donations and the Carbon Credit monthly donors helped us reach 319 children in un-electrified communities with solar lamps to read by while school closed due the pandemic.

Your carbon credit donations not only reduced proven barriers to breaking out of poverty, but sank over 950 tons of carbon in the meantime.

We are happy to announce our enhanced carbon credits membership program. We are transitioning to run it directly through our website rather than on the GlobalGiving platform. Therefore, this GlobalGiving program page will be closing soon.

Up next, Mayan Power and Light has identified excellent 10w solar kits that provide families with lights in 4 rooms, cellphone charging, radio and MP3 that changes lives at subsidized rates thanks to you, our Carbon Credit Partners.  

Please migrate with us to the ATC direct site at https://www.apptechdesign.org/carbon-credit-partnership to learn more and stay up-to-date with our program.

Links:

• Join the Carbon Credit Partnership with Mayan Power and Light

As COVID19 cases continue to rise in Guatemala, keeping families healthy is more important than ever. Meanwhile, the environmental crisis remains and the world is adjusting to the new economic crisis.  

This quarter, we provided a sense of security to 315 un-electrified children with a simple solar lamp: saving the family money on candles, and creating a safe, lit space so the family can read or weave. Each solar lamp abates 2.8 tons of carbon dioxide, collectively we’ve abated over 882 tons of C02 this year. 

Since the national quarantine restricts travel across departments, we worked with our trusted community partners, school principals at two solar schools,  to receive the solar lights by mail and distribute the solar lights to their students.  We tracked the donation with school enrollment lists and photographs and when travel is approved, we’ll do a follow-up visit with the children and parent, engaging them with activities that raise environmental awareness.

This month, we are also partnering with two community partners to distribute water filters to 100 rural families who lack potable water. Our partners will undergo a social impact study of the water filters to provide an third party assessment of our work. 

We’ve achieved these activities and much more with full social distancing and reduced contamination from transportation.

Links:

• Check out our updated website