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Activity elected at the Nuit de l’Événementiel Paris and Lyon 2024.
Just under 10% of the world’s population lives without electricity (source: worldbank.org). This situation has a devastating effect on children’s education, damages families’ health and financial economics and harms the environment we all share.
The Hour of Power raises awareness of the problems caused by energy poverty and provides an innovative and sustainable solution to improve the lives of children living without electricity in developing countries. These children will be able to receive a solar-powered lamp supplied by the Solar Buddy association thanks to the participants who will have assembled it during the activity. With these solar-powered lamps, the children will be able to study after nightfall and avoid using paraffin lamps, which are expensive and a source of accidents.
This meaningful team-building activity is ideal for bringing your teams together around an enriching experience, while highlighting your company’s human and societal values. During this activity, participants will assemble solar lamps for children living in areas deprived of electricity, and will also have the opportunity to write a personalized letter to the beneficiary child, who will receive his or her kit directly at school thanks to the Solar Buddy association.
The Hour of Power is a one-of-a-kind CSR activity, focused on corporate solidarity and generating real social impact. What’s more, it’s the perfect way to showcase your company’s corporate citizenship initiatives : it can be included in your extra-financial performance declaration, under the “social performance” or “solidarity initiatives” categories.
The assembly and writing workshop can be followed by a quiz on the challenges of energy poverty, then a team brainstorming session with a feedback session to suggest environmental and societal actions within the company (as an option). It’s an activity you’ll be hearing about for a long time and it will be a great way to get your company thinking about CSR!
“energy is the golden thread that connects all the Sustainable Development Goals.” – United Nations Secretary-General Anotónio Guterres.
To calculate the impact of your lamps over 10 years in more detail: www.solarbuddy.org/energy-poverty/impact-calculator/
Step 1: Briefing
Welcome of participants
Presentation on the challenges of energy poverty
Introduction to the activity
Approximately 20 minutes
Step 2: Assembling the lamps and writing the message
Distribution and assembly of the lamps by the participants
Individual writing of a message of hope to be sent with the lamp to a child in need.
Team photo taken with the lamps lit.
Approximately 30 minutes
Optional step 3: Quiz, Brainstorming and Debriefing
As a team, participants take part in a fun CSR quiz on energy poverty linked to the briefing presentation.
Again as a team, they brainstorm to suggest an environmental or societal action to be implemented within the company.
They then produce a report to explain their ideas to the other participants.
All the participants vote for the best idea!
Approximately 40 minutes
Eva
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANTE TO CEO & OFFICE MANAGER
Roselyne
SYNGENTA
By assembling solar lamps, your employees are actively helping to improve the daily lives of children and families in developing countries. Each lamp has a lasting impact over 10 years:
+60% improvement in the overall health of women and children,
+78% increase in time spent on homework after school,
1.3 tonnes of CO₂ avoided,
– 80% reduction in kerosene consumption per family.
To calculate the impact of your lamps over 10 years in more detail: www.solarbuddy.org/energy-poverty/impact-calculator/
Team building with a concrete and meaningful impact.
Absolutely, our team will travel to organise your team building event at the location of your choice (reception venue, company premises, etc.), ensuring optimal flexibility for your company.
The solar lamps are distributed to children directly through their schools, thanks to members of the NGO Solar Buddy and volunteers involved in humanitarian missions in the field.
The solar lamps are sent to countries in Africa, East Asia, Central America, India and Australia.
The solar lamps are transported by ship and road to schools in the beneficiary countries, where they are distributed directly to children by the Solar Buddy association. For example, transporting six lamps (weighing 1 kg) from Rotterdam to Singapore generates only 0.001 tonnes of CO₂. In comparison, each lamp prevents an average of 7.68 tonnes of CO₂ over 10 years, which is 7,000 times greater than its environmental impact during transport.
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