Help provide bright, clean lights to the 12 remote and unelectrified villages of three river island communities.
There is still no electricity access in communities in remote river islands of Northern Bangladesh.
The solar lights will help with new technology adoption that will improve people's quality of life, allow students to study at night and enable better communication through the mobile phone charging capability.
200 households (around 1000 people)
The beneficiaries are communities from 3 River Island (12 villages). These are ultra poor communities, farmers and fishermen. Their income is very low and dependent on the weather. Twelve villages will be randomly chosen and beneficiaries will be selected by lottery.
GUK Gaibandha staff will work together with IDE-JETRO researchers (especially with Dr. Abu Shonchoy) to identify a locally appropriate price for the solar lanterns. Authorities from the local area will sell lights to the households at a subsidized price. The funds collected will be used to purchase more lights. We may also vary the price to check for price sensitivity, use of the lantern and the socio-economic impact of it on the community.
If the community faces difficulties providing payment upfront, we may try different options like credit facilities with regular small repayments (saving down option), or a rotational savings scheme where individuals within a group will be randomly chosen for the ownership of the lantern upon collection of the equal savings amount from the members (saving up option).
|
Item |
Explanation |
Unit cost |
Quantity |
Cost |
|
Product |
Cost of the technology, shipping and taxes |
37.59 |
200 |
7,518 |
|
Wire transfer fee |
|
45 |
2 |
90 |
|
Paypal/other payment processing fee |
3.3% average based on the average size of project and average donation amount |
3.30% |
|
290 |
|
Kopernik 10% |
In order to cover due diligence cost that Kopernik conducts |
|
|
878 |
|
TOTAL BUDGET |
8,775 |
Fluctuations in currency exchange rates and shipping costs may change the final quantity of technologies shipped for this project.
Financial contribution: Cost of domestic transportation of the goods.
Non-financial contribution: Distribution, randomization, survey and payment collection.
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