What is the name of your organization?
LightEd Impact Foundation
What is the name of your solution?
Avatar Station
Provide a one-line summary or tagline for your solution.
A solar-powered hub built from recycled waste that brings clean energy, education, and opportunity to underserved communities.
In what city, town, or region is your solution team headquartered?
Onitsha, Anambra, Nigeria
In what country is your solution team headquartered?
NGA
What type of organization is your solution team?
Nonprofit
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What specific problem are you solving?
In Nigeria and across sub-Saharan Africa, over 600 million people lack reliable access to electricity, especially in rural communities and refugee camps. This isn’t just an inconvenience but a lugubrious situation that limits learning, economic opportunity, healthcare access, and safety. At the same time, plastic and electronic waste are piling up in landfills, polluting environments and threatening our ecosystem. Energy poverty and unmanaged waste are connected and they are worsening with climate change. Without localized, sustainable solutions, numerous communities remain excluded from clean energy and circular innovation. That’s where our solution comes in.
What is your solution?
Avatar Station is a solar-powered community hub built entirely from recycled plastic and waste. It is designed as a multipurpose solution for clean energy access, education, and opportunity in off-grid areas. Inside each station, people can charge phones and devices, access digital tools, learn about climate and sustainability, and even participate in hands-on training to build their own solar tech from waste. Every component from the solar panels, LEDs, and modular batteries are chosen to be easy to maintain and community-owned. The station is mobile and modular, allowing us to adapt it for different locations like refugee camps, schools, or health centers.
This station turns pollution into power and power into possibility to combat the darkness that surrounds us. We bring light and empowerment through education hence the name “LightEd.”
Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?
Avatar Station is built for underserved communities who have been left in the dark, literally and figuratively. We work with off-grid rural communities, refugees, women-led households, and youth in low-income areas. These groups often rely on dangerous energy sources like kerosene or diesel generators, therefore lacking access to both clean power and digital infrastructure. Our stations create a safe, inclusive space where people can get uninterrupted power supply and gain knowledge. Women use products from the station to power kiosks, students and youth use the station to study, learn about solar innovation and entrepreneurship.
By giving communities the tools to power themselves sustainably, we help light the path to self-reliance and climate resilience.