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Shell Foundation focuses on enterprise-based solutions to poverty and environmental challenges linked to the impact of energy and globalisation.
It acts like an investor, identifying financially sustainable solutions to these challenges that can be taken to scale and replicated to achieve global impact.
Shell Foundation was established by Shell Group in 2000 as an independent, UK registered charity operating with a global mandate.
Through its programmes it is currently:
- Supporting the start-up and growth of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Africa as a way to reduce poverty;
- Bringing down the number of deaths caused by indoor air pollution;
- Easing the traffic congestion and pollution clogging up developing country mega-cities;
- Giving developing-country producers improved access to world markets;
- Helping to provide modern energy and infrastructure services to poor people.
By 2010 the Foundation will have used $75milllion to leverage $350million from other organizations. Where appropriate, it applies Shell Group�s �value-adding resources� – knowledge, brand and infrastructure – in ways that help to deliver its charitable objectives.
A case study of the shell foundation : and its benefit to a common man and his environment .
Solar Power Benefits Indian Street Hawkers
Less than five miles away from the centre of Bangalore � with its gleaming IT buildings that are synonymous with India�s economic rise � Vijay Kumar stands outside his one-room home with a smile on his face. Business is going well.
The 44-year-old, one-time auto rickshaw driver has, with the help of Foundation partner S�IDF established his own business providing battery-powered lighting to local market stallholders who used to use relatively expensive and polluting kerosene lamps.
�I feel this is a good business,� says Vijay. �It�s a new kind of plan. No one has done it before so there�s no competition.�
It is 4 pm on a clear day in the south Bangalorean region of Bommanahalli and Vijay, along with his 23-year-old trainee Suresh, is loading 70 rechargeable batteries � similar to a standard 12V car battery � into his second-hand car.
Since first light, the batteries have been charged by solar energy collected from half a dozen panels that jut from the roof of Vijay�s house.
With the car loaded they set off on their daily delivery run. Weaving down back alleys to avoid the gridlocked rush hour traffic they pull up at roadside stalls selling everything from fruit and vegetables, to fish, spices and ready-to-eat food. At each stop Suresh jumps out of the car, hands one of the batteries to the stallholder in exchange for 20 rupees ($0.50) and jumps back in. They repeat this about 70 times, completing their round just as dusk falls.
Each battery attaches to a lamp that lights a stall during the evening peak buying hours. At the end of the night Vijay and Suresh collect the batteries and take them home where they are connected back up to the solar panels ready to be charged again the next day.
Through Vijay�s enterprise the stallholders pay 40-60% less than they did for the kerosene lamps they used to use and fumes and heat do not damage their goods. Vijay, who with the help of S�IDF borrowed money from a local bank to buy the lamps and solar recharging system, makes around 2,000 rupees ($50) a month during the three-to-five year loan repayment period and will make up to 6,000 rupees ($150) a month after that.
Vijay is one of 25 entrepreneurs S�IDF, a social merchant bank, has helped to establish businesses supplying lighting to stallholders. With India�s streets lined with informal stalls and markets the potential � as Vijay knows all too well – is vast.
Having started with 30 lights Vijay now owns 100 and has plans to set up in two other locations. Suresh , once he completes a five-month apprenticeship will man one of the new ventures. Vijay has also saved money on the lights having discovered he could manufacture the ones supplied by a local company at 60% of the cost. He has also custom-made them to meet demands; onion sellers did not like the white-light of the original design because it showed up black spots on the onions, so Vijay started supplying them with yellow-light.
�My plan is to definitely do more,� he says with a chuckle. �But I�m also leaving it to see what fate has in store.�
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