Barefoot Power

website:

http://www.barefootpower.com

Company details

What does it do?

Bringing clean electricity to 1 million people by 2010, by eliminating kerosene lighting in villages worldwide. Barefoot Power designs and manufactures technology products specifically for poor people that have the potential to reduce poverty in developing countries.

How is it social?

Barefoot Power are focusing, as a first step, on LED lighting - designing affordable high quality LED home lighting systems and initiating mass manufacture of these products. The company enables the poor to use the meagre resources of their families and communities better, thus helping them to improve their lives and opportunities. At the same time Barefoot Power's products reduce carbon emissions to the atmosphere from burning millions of barrels of keroesene.

What is its business model?

Barefoot Power is a social entrepreneurial business. It designs and manufacture technology products specifically for poor people that have the potential to reduce poverty in developing countries.

Barefoot Power believes that energy access is one of the key building blocks of economic development. Its first area of focus, therefore, is on the most basic use of electricity - lighting.

Over US$10 billion is spent each year on kerosene for lighting in the homes of the poor in developing countries (see Lighting Africa and the Lumina Project). Its mission is to help poor families to stop spending their scarce cash by giving them a better and cheaper option. We are declaring war on kerosene!

To do this, it has developed a range of affordable quality lighting products and initiated their mass manufacture.

The business aims to establish an efficient grassroots distribution network to supply the poor with these and other 21st century technology products.

Its history

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More information

Current shareholders:	No information provided
Chair:	Harry Andrews
Year of incorporation:	2005

Company snapshot

Company type:	Ltd
Address:	79 Morrissett Street, Bathurst, NSW, AU, 2795
Telephone:	+61 2 63322661
Blog:
CEO:	Stewart Craine
Industrial sector:	Consumer electronics
Social / Environmental benefit:	Developing countries; Climate change; Poverty alleviation; Renewable Energy;
Certifications:	Not Applicable;
Social business sector:	Alternative Energy and the Environment; Ethical Consumerism;

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