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Wire & Cable ASIA – September/October 2013 8
KYOCERA Corporation has donated
solar power generating systems to four
secondary schools in Tanzania and three
primary schools in Uganda.
The installations are part of larger
projects in which Kyocera has been
providing solar power generating
systems to schools with no access to
the electricity grid.
The five-year projects consist of
600-watt solar power generating
systems for 35 schools in total.
With additional installations at seven
schools in the last fiscal year, donations
have already been made to a total of 28
schools, with seven more to follow by
March 2014.
The solar systems are also occasionally
used as an electricity source for the local
community to charge mobile devices.
During the Fifth Tokyo International
Conference on African Development
(TICAD V) in Japan, the Japanese
Government pledged 3.2 trillion yen of
public and private assistance to Africa
over the next five years and stressed
the importance of private sector
investment.
Kyocera believes in the great
possibilities of the young generation in
Africa and hopes that its donations in
Tanzania and Uganda will help further
the education of students who carry the
future of the countries on their shoulders.
Kyocera’s representative at the donation
ceremonies, youichi Higashi, manager of
the business planning department in the
corporate solar energy group, said: “The
value of electricity is difficult to
understand in countries where power
access is always available.”
Kyocera Corporation – Japan
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Solar goes to school in
Tanzania and Uganda
❍ Donation ceremony at Ryakasinga Model Primary Boarding School in Bushenyi, Uganda
Freedom Cable pulls out of Australia extension
Freedom Cable has cancelled the proposed extension to Australia of its subsea
fibre optic cable, after failing to secure necessary financial backing. The change
of plan comes only seven weeks after the extension idea was first proposed by
entrepreneur and bandwidth brokerage company chief Sunil Tagare.
Mr Tagare said that his venture had been seeking a $50 million investment from
Telstra in return for 3TBPS of capacity on the cable, but that Telstra had declined.
Freedom Cable – Australia