Monday, 17 November 2014

Let the sun shine!

We're not exactly big fans of the heat but there are benefits to having sunshine every single day... Free energy for example :-)

One week ago, we had two small solar panels installed on the roof of the dialogue centre that is currently functioning as our church building, thanks to some generous donations towards the project from the UK and France.

And what a blessing they are!



As the dialogue centre is situated out of town, the electricity cables do not extend to it, and to pay for the extension of the cables would be extremely expensive. For the last few years, a variety of generators have been used to provide power, but these are very draining on the budget. They constantly break down and need repairing, the eat fuel like there's no tomorrow and it has proven extremely difficult to regulate the voltage (despite attempting to fit regulators in several places), resulting in light bulbs being blown nearly every week. As a result, we only used the generators for our big church meetings on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Any other meetings (morning and evening prayer sessions, youth meetings etc) took place without ceiling fans and without proper lights (we just used a couple of LED torches which made reading the Bible a bit challenging!).

The solar panels have changed all that! We are now not spending any money on fuel, although we will put some money by for maintenance of the panels, and we can use the ceiling fans, lights, mics and musical instruments at all of our meetings! What's more, it will now be possible for us to start music lessons for keyboard, electric guitar and bass guitar at the dialogue centre, which some of the teens are very happy about!

Thank you to everyone who donated money towards the project here - Kandi Church is very grateful indeed!

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