Jewish youth village in Rwanda to host region's largest solar field
First utility-scale project in East Africa to help finance projects
for Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village
By JTA February 18, 2014, 8:10 am
Yossi Abramowitz (in peach shirt) and his partners at the Israel's
first solar field (Courtesy Yosef Abramowitz)
The first utility-scale solar power field in East Africa will be built
on land belonging to a Jewish-sponsored youth village in Rwanda.
The nearly $24 million project was announced Monday by Yosef
Abramowitz, the president of Gigawatt Global Cooperatief, which
arranged for its financing.
Construction has already started on the solar field on land belonging
to the Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village. The village for orphans from the
1994 Rwandan genocide was founded by the late Anne Heyman.
The solar field will feed electricity into the national grid under a
25-year power purchase agreement with the Rwanda Energy, Water and
Sanitation Authority. It is expected to be operational this summer.
"It takes a global village to raise a solar revolution," said
Abramowitz, who also is CEO of Energiya Global Capital, Gigawatt's
Israeli affiliate, which provided seed money and strategic assistance
for the project.
Abramowitz called the solar field, which will provide an 8 percent
increase in the country's energy supply, "a game-changer for humanity
and the environment."
The youth village is leasing land to the solar facility and will use
the proceeds to fund its charitable mission.
"Anne Heyman, our founder of blessed memory, held to a vision in which
the village practiced tikkun olam, the Jewish teaching to help heal
the world," said Laurie Toll Franz, the youth village's newly elected
board chair. "In addition to our work with Rwanda's most vulnerable
children, we're now helping to improve the lives of thousands of
people through sustainable electricity generation."
Heyman died earlier this month in a horse-riding accident in Florida.
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