First Access

Lighting up the Future of Young Students in Africa.

We started as a small project in 2006 by a team of three students at the University of Tokyo who shared a common desire to make real changes to the world outside of labs and classrooms.

The name First Access indicates our primary aim to bring a ‘first access’ to electricity for disadvantaged African children living in rural and remote areas where national electrical grids or humanitarian agencies have not yet reached - or may never reach in any near future.

Since our establishment, we have delivered over 1,000 solar lanterns to children in junior schools, daycare centers and orphanages in Uganda, Kenya, Sierra Leone, and other African countries.