The Hour of Power : a luminous and charity-based team building experience

Activity elected at the Nuit de l’Événementiel Paris and Lyon 2024.

The Hour of Power : Strengthen your social commitment and the cohesion of your teams with this inspiring and solar charity activity!

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.

The concrete impact of a lamp used for 10 years: :

• +60% improvement in the overall health of women and children
• +78% more time spent on homework after school
• – 80% lower kerosene consumption per family
• 1.3 tons of CO₂ avoided. In comparison, the environmental impact of 6 lamps (1kg of goods) is almost 8,000 times greater than that of transporting them by sea.

To calculate the impact of your lamps over 10 years in more detail: www.solarbuddy.org/energy-poverty/impact-calculator/ 

Our service :

• Event preparation: advice, scheduling and programming.
• Implementation of the event: delivery of the solar lamps to be assembled and management of the event by our experienced animators in French or English.
• Post-event delivery of the lamps to the children (managed by Solar Buddy).
• Taking photos during the activity.