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POWER TO THE PEOPLE
access:energy empowers
Kenyans to bring renewable electricity to their communities, creating skilled jobs and energy independence.
We are training local technicians to build
wind turbines from scratch, using scrap metal and car parts that they source locally. We need your support. We’ve already received
an award from the President of Kenya for our work, but its financial support
that we now need in order to keep this powerful dream alive. The wind turbines:
+ Are 3 times cheaper than equivalent solar panels
+ Do no harm, unlike disposable batteries
or kerosene smoke
+ Help create skilled jobs
+ Will be matched, dollar for dollar by
the Segal Family Foundation doubling
your impact
+ Is direct, thanks to the match funding, your $25 (that’s £15)
enables two artisans to work for a week, acquiring the skills they need to be
energy independent
ACCESS:ENERGY IN THE NEWS
Want to know more? Read about us on these pages!
WHY ACCESS?
access:energy's approach to energy provision is quite different from solar power projects - we build our turbines from scratch at small workshops in Kenya, install them as energy hubs in rural villages and distribute power very locally. This local approach means we can deliver electricity far cheaper than mass-produced solar panels and even, in many cases, grid electricity. It also means that as we grow we create skilled jobs in the places where people need them most.
Local demand, local supply. Power to the people.
This ethos is at the heart of access:energy. It is why we think this is going to work.
THE IMPACT
REPLACING LOW-QUALITY SOURCES OF ENERGY:
Most Kenyan households are still reliant on kerosene lamps, disposable batteries and diesel generators. These energy sources are very expensive and harmful to human health.
JOB CREATION:
Most other energy projects in Africa rely on importing products to sell or distribute. With your support this project will develop local production capacity - renewable energy technology built by Kenyans, for Kenyans.
LOCAL OWNERSHIP:
We set up small clean energy hubs that are then managed by Kenyan communities, bringing self-reliance.
ACCESS TO ELECTRICITY:
Our turbines are built to produce enough power for clinics to store vaccines and provide 24 hour obstetric care, to provide light for children to study at night, refrigeration for dairy farmers and fishermen, and for the whole village to be able to charge their mobile phones.
You get the idea, electricity is big.
TELL ME MORE ABOUT THIS TURBINEThe access:wind turbine was designed by access:energy in close partnership with artisans from Kenya's informal manufacturing sector (Jua Kali) with technical support from engineers from Yale University and the EngineerAid network.
In July 2011, it won a Kenyan Presidential Award for Jua Kali Design and Innovation.We work with wind turbines firstly because, with a little ingenuity, they can be made from scrap materials, car parts and components found readily in Kenya, so no global supply issues even in remote places. Secondly, because small wind turbines can meet the energy requirements of Kenyan houses far more cheaply than imported technology.
TELL ME MORE ABOUT THIS JUA KALI
Jua Kali means 'hot sun' in Swahili. It is the term used for the informal manufacturing areas in Kenyan towns. Each Jua Kali area is a complex, self-organising system of mechanics, welders, wood workers and other tradesmen who work 'under the hot sun' - ie. without big workshops or heavy machinery. Jua Kali artisans break, re-build and lovingly maintain just about any piece of technology you can think of from radio sets to Isuzu trucks. Now, with access:energy, they are starting to manufacture wind turbines.
Jua Kali is a fascinating socio-economic phenomenon that the Kenyan Government is just beginning to support as an important source of GDP, skilled labor and employment. Our local manufacture approach means we engage an enormous human resource that has in the past been marginalised and redirect it towards building clean energy technology.
WHAT WE NEED & WHAT YOU GET
The money raised in the access:energy campaign is guaranteed a matching donation from the Segal Family Foundation for the first $10,000 raised. You give a dollar, the Segal Family gives a dollar, doubling your contribution!
Your money goes towards proving the access:energy concept: training informal sector artisans to build wind turbines and piloting our first off-grid energy hubs for Kenyan villages. If it works, we will be able to approach social investors and make access:energy a reality for millions of Africans over the next ten years.
FURTHER INFO ON PERKS
There are lots of ways to get involved: Order our 2012 Calendar of Kenyan mechanic hunks (yes, seriously), own beautiful wall-size drawings and photographs of the access:wind turbine or come visit us out in Kenya if you're feeling daring!
The Treasure Hunt: Just like a game of battleships but spicier. Hunt for prizes by uncovering a section of the image on our website at www.access-collective.com/indiegogo. Chose a grid square when you donate and we will update the image on our website every day to show what prizes have been won.
Other ways you can help: Please share our Indie Go Go campaign with others, through conversations, Twitter, Facebook, email, Tannoy systems - whatever works. You can click here to tweet about our campaign, here to share to Facebook.
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JOIN THE ENERGY REVOLUTION: $10
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| Become the newest member of access:collective. To show you how much we appreciate this we’ll add your name and photograph to our website's sponsor page and pen you a personalised Japanese Haiku tweet. |
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TREASURE HUNT: $25
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| Hidden prizes include: 1x hard cash: $100; 3x hard cash: $50; 10x access:energy T-shirts; 5x hunky mechanic calendar (perk 3 below);
3x turbine design prints (perk 4 below);
1x hand-carved wooden ugali spoon (awarded to the last entrant). Please read the main section to the left for more information! |
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HUNKY KENYAN MECHANIC CALENDAR: $45
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| That’s right, claim this perk and we’ll print and send you a tastefully assembled 2012 wall calendar of 12 smoking hot Kenyan mechanics working hard in their overalls. |
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TURBINE GRAPHICS: $100
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| Own one of 20 graphic prints of the access:wind turbine specially commissioned from our architect friend Jonas Barre. The prints are a beautiful set of abstract drawings of the turbine decomposed into its component parts. |
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COMPLETE TURBINE GRAPHICS SET: $200
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| The same print as above, plus a series of printed high-resolution photographs of the turbine manufacture process. |
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KINETIC SCULPTURE: $300
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| Claim a one-of-a-kind kinetic sculpture courtesy of our friends at Circus Kinetica. This splendid UK arts collective are the yin to our yang, the right brain to our left: small windmills made from recycled materials that serve no purpose other than that of aesthetic beauty. |
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ADOPT A TURBINE: $1,000
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| Adopt and name your very own wind turbine. We'll send a birth certificate and photographs of her "being born" in our workshop. When she grows up and starts generating power, we'll produce a map, high res photographs and a 3D rendering of her installation. We'll send you monthly reports for a year showing how much power your turbine has generated and reactions from the people she powers. Bonus: send a photograph of anything you like (within reason...) and we’ll stencil it on the rudder! |
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BE OUR GUEST IN KENYA: $15,000
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| Let us guide you through a personalised two week holiday in East Africa. Visit access:energy's workshop, we will teach you how to build a wind turbine and take you out to one of our installation sites. Then it's safari time - to the Masaii Mara where lions and elephants abound or to the coast to take in the unique Swahili culture and the white sandy beaches of Watamu. This covers a return flight to and travel within Kenya, full board, and a safari - we will help you plan everything. |
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