COMMUNITY SUSTAINABILITY ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM

Electrify My World (EMW) aims to provide electrification to impoverished communities in the Philippines that suffer from limited to no access to much-needed electricity supply.

Without our intervention, hard-to-reach Filipino communities in far-flung areas have to rely on old car batteries, kerosene or candles to light their homes. Apart from being environmental and safety hazards, these options are expensive for daily use, hence, many homes in such areas are left in the dark during the night, which has become the norm for many of these people.

With sustainability at the forefront of our objectives in PAC, our organization utilizes a continuous, progressive, sustainable and collaborative improvement approach with the goal to develop long-term partnership with our communities, while providing assistance with sustainable solutions.

In spite of the additional challenges brought by the pandemic, we continuously work on providing system-based support aimed towards achieving sustainable development, self-sufficiency and poverty reduction. After completing a site visit to complete a needs assessment and demographics survey on 26 February 2022, PAC determined that it would launch our first project under the EMW program, which aimed at providing solar lamps to the San Rafael Community (SRC), a remote community of 91 households, located in the mountainous area of Rizal, approximately 2 hours east of Manila, Philippines. This project is aligned with our EMW’s objective of bringing the most affordable and appropriate electrification technology to the impoverished Filipino communities.

From April-August 2022, PAC, with its partner Solar Hope, distributed and installed 91 Home Solar Light Systems (HSLSs) in homes of the SRC, completing installations across the entire community.

Thank you to our partner and donors for helping us share love and light.

Any extra money fundraised above the need of the SRC will be utilized towards the electrification of follow-on communities.

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P.S.: By YOU sharing this project with your co-workers will help us reach a wider audience and increase public awareness about the lack of electrification in remote communities of the Philippines, and in turn provide a sustainable solution to the San Rafael community.

PAC’s EMW program supports the following United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs):

#1 - No Poverty: End poverty in all its forms everywhere;

#2 - Zero Hunger: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture;

#3 - Good Health and Well-Being: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages;

#7 - Affordable and Clean Energy: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all;

#10 - Reduced Inequalities: Reduce inequality within and among countries;

#11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable;

#12 - Responsible Consumption and Production: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns;

#15 - Life on Land: Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss; and

#17 - Partnerships for the Goals: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.