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��ɫ��Ƶ to Help Equip Africans to Meet Energy Challenges

Julia Ann Easley — June 19, 2017 - 9:21am

Evelyn Mugisha grew up in rural Uganda where, for most people, there still is no power to light the night. But with eyes wide open, she’s dreaming of extending electricity to those rural areas.

She and 24 other young professionals from sub-Saharan Africa — where two out of three people lack access to electricity — have come to the University of California, Davis, to equip themselves to tackle the enormous energy challenges on their continent.

��ɫ��Ƶ to Help Young Africans Tackling Energy Challenges

Julia Ann Easley — February 06, 2017 - 11:48am

The University of California, Davis, has been selected to host the second energy institute for young African leaders who are tackling energy challenges in their countries.

Considered the most sustainable university in the world, ��ɫ��Ƶ will offer “Sustainably Extending Energy Services: A Stakeholders Approach” for the Mandela Washington Fellowship, the flagship of the U.S. government’s Young African Leaders Initiative.

��ɫ��Ƶ Helps Empower Those Tackling Africa's Energy Challenges

Julia Ann Easley — July 26, 2016 - 4:17pm

Sarah Mulwah of Botswana has been an environmental consultant and a marketing manager for a nature reserve where she helped track white rhinos for a conservation project.

But a six-week energy institute at ��ɫ��Ƶ is helping her blaze a trail for a new endeavor — setting up a lending library of solar lanterns for rural schoolchildren whose families are too poor to connect to the power grid.

��ɫ��Ƶ to Be Living Lab for Young African Leaders Tackling Energy Issues

Julia Ann Easley — June 17, 2016 - 11:33am

Their work in Africa ranges from placing solar lanterns in humble huts to advising the leadership of South Africa’s national power utility.

But over the next six weeks, 25 young African leaders will be at the University of California, Davis, to leverage the campus’s energy expertise and better equip themselves to tackle the enormous energy challenges on their continent.

��ɫ��Ƶ to Host First Energy Institute for Obama's Young African Leaders Program

Julia Ann Easley — February 09, 2016 - 11:32am

Twenty-five young African leaders will leverage the world leadership of the University of California, Davis, in zero-net energy and its global experience to tackle energy challenges in their countries.

They will come to ��ɫ��Ƶ for the first and only energy-themed institute offered through the Mandela Washington Fellowship, the flagship of President Obama’s Young African Leaders Initiative.