Collective effort brings light to African students

MONKS and students from Limerick have joined forces with a charity to bring free solar power to a remote African school and help connect it to the world.

Two volunteers from Cork-based not-for-profit organisation, Solar Without Frontiers, have just returned from Songea, in southern Tanzania, where they installed a solar power system to supply free electricity to an IT education facility at Hanga Abbey.

Hanga Abbey is a vibrant Benedictine community which is home to a 500-pupil secondary school which provides high-quality and affordable education.