In this week's Fellowship feature, we are thrilled to share Precious Mafunga and his incredible achievement as an award recipient of the 2023 Future United Futurist Special Commendation Award by GBCHealth! 🎉🙌
Precious is currently a 2023 Student Energy Fellow. He is the founder of Solis Bio-Energy, a Malawian renewable energy social enterprise that aims to advance the livelihoods of people in rural communities by installing and managing integrated rural solar-wind mini grids. He is a secondary school teacher who now is making big strides to learn more about the renewable energy industry. ⚡️🌎
He worked on his project idea focusing on "Integrated Rural Solar-Wind Mini Grid" to provide rural communities in Malawi access to a clean, sustainable, and reliable source of electricity. What sparked his interest to pursue this idea is his first-hand experience realizing how difficult it is to have no access to reliable sources of power. His community relied on charcoal and firewood as the main energy source and used paraffin lamps - referred to as "koloboi" in Malawi, to illuminate their household at night.💡
While working on his project during the Fellowship, Precious engaged in a training workshop by CrowdSolve - a one-month climate startup boot camp, where they called for early startup founders with innovative climate ideas. He was granted a scholarship after that, and pitched the idea to funders. Soon after, he became the proud recipient of GBCHealth's 2023 Special Commendation Award on 19th September 2023. 🏆🏆
Precious is a 2018 graduate of Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources. In 2022, he attended the Next Generation Leaders Academy where he was elected as President and graduated with a Certificate in Leadership and received Best Student Award. As a young leader, he managed to influence and develop youth policies such as Quota4Youth advocating for more youth inclusion in decision-making in civic and political spaces. 🌟
➡️ Are you a young person interested in learning about core energy systems and developing your project and leadership skills? Find out more about the Fellowship on our website: studentenergy.org/program/se-...
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