Our Mission
Empower Playgrounds, Inc. enhances educational opportunities for children in deprived villages by providing renewable energy through electricity-generating playground equipment, smart LED lanterns, and hands-on science kits.
We Build Merry-Go-Rounds That Generate Electricity
Since 2007, Empower Playgrounds, Inc has installed 40 merry-go-rounds at schools all over Ghana, West Africa. Our merry-go-rounds generate renewable energy that charges lanterns which children can use in their classrooms and homes to study at night.
What We’ve Achieved
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54 Merry-Go-Rounds (MGR) that Generate electricity at 50 schools in Ghana, 1 in Burkina Faso and 2 in Mali
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EPI MGRs serve 20,000 children
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5 million hours of light generated and used from the MGR
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56 Village Solar Project homes serving a communities on 3 islands on the Volta lake
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We have delivered 1000 Science Kits to 50 schools since 2008
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6 Boreholes serving 6 communities with a total of 2400 people
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5 BioFil units serving 5 communities with a total of 2,000 people
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20 New Classrooms built to support the increased enrollment from the merry-go-round
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10 School libraries installed
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3 Girls scholarship student recipients
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“When children play on playgrounds, they are already illuminating the world around them. What is important about Empower Playgrounds’ equipment is that it helps make that light literal.”