Poor Ivory Coast pupils’ ray of hope: solar backpacks


  • TECH
  • Tuesday, 30 Oct 2018

The equatorial sun has been up for about an hour as a gaggle of children set off from the Ivorian village of Allepilla on their hour-long trek to school. 

Back home in the evening, eight-year-old Marie-France Amoandji Ngbessoo does her homework by the light of her backpack's LED – captured by solar panels on her way to and from school. 

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