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Solarenergie - Google News Globe and Pusod bring light to Taal Volcano Island - Business Mirror Details Category: Science Published on Saturday, 24 August 2013 18:27 FORTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD boatman Redentor Bahadia has been living without electricity all his life. Not because he cannot afford to pay for it. The entire Taal Volcano Island, where about 5,000 people live, remains unconnected to the national electric-transmission grid. To make matters worse, Bahadia has to shell out over P100 a day, or more than P3,000 a month, for the 2 liters of gasoline needed to keep his generator going for 12 hours. The amount is much higher than the electric consumption of an average household in Metro Manila. At night, when he takes the 30-minute journey from the island to the mainland, Bahadia has to rely on his battery-operated flashlight to provide illumination along the lake, thus, spending a couple of pesos more for disposable batteries. Bahadia is not alone in this predicament. Other residents of the volcano island who use kerosene for their lamps like 28-year-old Lenie de Villa also have to spend P30 a day per bottle, or P900 a month, making a huge dent in the meager income that they get. On top of it, they also pay P5 just to charge their cellular phones. ?We need to go out and buy kerosene for our lamp. It?s so difficult, especially when the kids are doing their homework. And it?s also difficult not to have any light when there?s a calamity like a typhoon or earthquake,? Lenie said in Filipino. Thus, it was of great relief to the people of Barangay Calawit, Balete, Batangas, when Globe Telecom, together with Pusod Inc., a non-governmental organization spearheading the Taal Volcano Protected Landscape project, decided to address the situation by providing solar lamps initially to 80 families of boatmen and tour guides under Pusod. Recipients only have to pay P250 per month for 12 months for the portable solar lamps and P310 a month for two years for those intended for home installation.  The amount paid will be used as seed money to buy additional lamps for the other 196 households in the barangay. Stiftung Solarenergie Philippines provides technical support to ensure longevity of the lamps, which is covered by a two-year warranty. The solar lamps work from four hours of continuous use under maximum setting to as long as 100 hours under bedtime setting.  They can also be used to charge mobile phones. ?We would like to help uplift the lives of the people of Batangas, which is one of our communities of practice.  With the solar-lamp distribution, we are able to assist the community further by allowing it to be more productive even in the evening, generate more savings, and be free from health and environmental hazards brought about by the use of fossil fuels, such as coal and petroleum,? said Fernando Esguerra, OIC, Globe Corporate Social Responsibility. Globe is also currently doing its part in livelihood provision, as well as in environmental protection and conservation of Taal Lake and its environs in partnership with Pusod. At the same time, it also assists the barangay through the Sagot Ka ni Kap empowerment program for barangay leaders. In Photo: Some of the boatmen, tour guides and their families who receive the solar lamps from Globe.   zum Artikel... Für die Inhalte dieses Feeds ist alleine der jeweilige Autor/Anbieter verantwortlich. Die Inhalte stellen nicht die Meinung von RSS2Email dar. Dies ist eine automatisch generierte E-Mail. Bitte antworten Sie nicht auf diese E-Mail. Wenn Sie keine Emails mehr von uns erhalten wollen, gehen Sie bitte auf den Menüpunkt "Meine Daten".