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Clean Energy

India alone has around 450 million people who lack access to electricity. For one in two households in rural India, living in darkness is a way of life. Often, a kerosene lamp is the only source of light in the household.

burning firewood

Noxious fumes from burning firewood and stoves claim a life every 20 seconds as a result of early childhood pneumonia, emphysema, cataracts, lung cancer, bronchitis which claim more lives than malaria or tuberculosis.

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Milaap works with partners who engage with households and communities to provide for the upfront costs to move to alternate and renewable sources of energy. Milaap also lays emphasis with interventions at the broader and community level projects.

Our Projects

Our Projects

Replaces kerosene lamps with solar/LED lamps. These renewable sources of energy, apart from being brighter, are cheaper solutions in the long run. Not only that, there is reduced risk of fire hazard from these alternatives.

Lighting Solutions Enterprise supports for lighting solutions

Our Projects

Helps individuals and SHGs in distribution of household appliances that use renewable sources of energy. The benefit is two-fold. It provides employment opportunities and helps promote the use of clean and renewable sources of energy.

Cooking Solutions

Our Projects

Seeks to replace the use of firewood and kerosene stoves for cooking using smokeless stoves. Clean energy sources such as smokeless stoves help eliminate exposure to noxious fumes. This results in healthier standard of living for the household and reduced medical expenses.

Lend, Share, Fundraise Water

Thousands of households face reduced indoor air pollution, and reduced risk of developing respiratory infections when alternate energy sources are used. At least 9% of households using firewood and kerosene lamps are at risk of burn injuries. Through alternate energy sources, there are fewer fire hazards at home, which means reduced risk of injuries and deaths.

Presence of alternate, renewable sources of light such as solar lamps at home results in increased productivity overall. It increases the time available for studies by an extra 4-6 hours, resulting better pass percentages and reduced drop-out numbers. Money spent on kerosene and time otherwise wasted in collecting fuel can be invested in work, education and health care.

Solar lamps and biogas powered stoves can save consumption of nearly 2 billion litres of kerosene. This means a reduction of 9 billion tonnes of CO2 produced. Along with fewer trees cut down for use as firewood, the combined impact is reduced carbon footprint and a cleaner, greener environment.