MPALE VILLAGE IN TANZANIA GETS LIGHT PROJECT AFTER 45YEARS

The project which is expected to have at least 50 households in Mpale village, Korogwe District in Tanzania was launch between the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) in collaboration with Ensol Tanzania Ltd. The project will connect the  power to the area which will improve social lives and boost economic activities.

Deputy Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Energy and Minerals, Dr Juliana Pallangyo while speaking during the launch; ”I would like to thank UNCDF and Ensol for their efforts in promoting access to electricity. Particularly renewable energy to improve local economic development and livelihoods. I would like to ask Mpale villagers and all other people in this district to use power for income generating activities and not for lighting only.”

Mpale Project Manager, Mr Prosper Magali; ”The partnership with UNCDF has been key in the solar micro-grid project.”

The project is a welcome news to resident of the community because since its establishment in 1972, the village has never had electricity. Most of the people in the village have been relying on unsafe and unclean kerosene as a lighting source.