Solar aid

Created by: Amy Woodhams
Created on: 06-04-13 12:33

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solar aid
- long-term aid
  - developmental aid
    - planned over a long time to improve QOL sustainably
      - eg. teaching trades and skills/ putting a school in an area of poverty
- location
  - tanzania
  - unilateral aid
    - British international development charity
      - aims
        To relieve poverty through facilitating the provision of solar energy to those in need.
        
        To advance the education of the public in matters relating to solar energy, climate change, and the protection of the environment
        
        To carry out and disseminate the results of research into all aspects of energy generation, distribution, supply and use
3 types of aid
- solar aid
  - long-term aid
    - developmental aid
      - planned over a long time to improve QOL sustainably
        eg. teaching trades and skills/ putting a school in an area of poverty
  - location
    - tanzania
    - unilateral aid
      - British international development charity
        aims
        To relieve poverty through facilitating the provision of solar energy to those in need.
        
        To advance the education of the public in matters relating to solar energy, climate change, and the protection of the environment
        
        To carry out and disseminate the results of research into all aspects of energy generation, distribution, supply and use
- bilateral
  - aid from one country to another
unilateral
- 3 types of aid
  - bilateral
    - aid from one country to another
- charity aid, collected by agencies all in one country
miltileteral
- organisations that involve many countries to give help
short term aid
emergency aid
- short term aid
Planned over a shorter time, given as an imidiate responce
- emergency aid
- generally in response to a natural disarster / war to help people survive in the short term.
Eastern Africa
- as well as other areas
action
- replace kerosene lamps with solar cells
  - kerosene lamps are poisonous
    - toxic and dangerous
  - solar cells are 'green'
    - use the sun's energy to make energy (light)
      - no gasses produced
        improves global warming
        more money will be invested in the solar cell industry
        spent on improving the quality and efficiency of the cells
        reducing price
        more acceccable
      - one kerosene lamp produces a tonne of CO2 over five years
  - solar cells only need to bought once whereas kerosene lamps were expensive as they needed to be replaced
    - more money can be spent on food, education and medicen
    - can afford to have light for longer/ later into the night
      - can light hospitals, community centres and schools
      - extra light time means more time for people to open businesses
        disposable income
      - teachers will have time to plan lessons and mark homework in the evenings
      - children can work after school and study for longer
        this will create a more skilled and intelligent generaion
        more opportunties as they grow up
        earn more money
  - people could would need to sell and install the solar cells
    - opportunity to start a business
      - offers a stable income
meaning more countries use them
- the world becomes more 'clean'
- more acceccable
1 person dies every 20 seconds because they are poisoned by the fumes
- toxic and dangerous
- people will become heathier as fewer homes are polluted
easy to break
- can cause serious burning
- houses are extremely flammable
  - a fire would spread quickly
- kerosene lamps are poisonous
teachers will have time to plan lessons and mark homework in the evenings
life expectance and infant mortality will improve
- earn more money
- more sustainable
  - less money spent on aid
    - chance to enter global trade

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