Equity & Community

Lighting up Rural Nicaragua

  • October 21, 2014
Group of people gathered outside illuminated building at night in rural Nicaragua

GRID ALTERNATIVES has gone international! We acquired a grassroots non-profit called Power to the People in 2014, bringing our extensive volunteer and supporter network to help build on the organization’s work in Nicaragua. Using a voluntourism model, we are leading groups of public and corporate volunteers to install off-grid solar in rural communities, literally lighting them up for the first time. This year we are also piloting special projects around drip irrigation and women in solar.