‘We feel safer’: how green energy is brightening refugee lives in Rwanda

Solar panels and cleaner-burning stoves have reduced dangers faced by residents of three camps

The camp has come from the dark into the light," says Edson Sebutozi Munyakarambi, a refugee living in the Kigeme camp in southern Rwanda.

Before the solar-powered street lamps, the camp was dark. Some people would come and steal things from the houses," says Munyakarambi, who chairs the committee that represents the 16,000 people in the camp. But now no one can rob people on the street corners and the children can study or play outside while they wait for their dinner."