WakaWaka Rwanda

WakaWaka stands up against plastic pollution.
While plastic has many valuable uses, such as the shell of our WakaWaka products, we have become over reliant on single-use or disposable plastic – with severe environmental consequences. We believe: if you can't reuse it, refuse it!

At WakaWaka we are also not there yet for a 100% but we try to take action whereever we can to beat plastic pollution. Join our green revolution today!

WakaWaka & Pacari create domino impact

As a social enterprise we use the force of our business to support local initiatives and projects. We do not want to create impact alone. For us, it is more important to ensure that the impact we have is meaningful as well.

One way to do this is by engaging in projects that have the potential for an impact-domino-effect, like our collaboration with Pacari. Pacari are a biodynamic chocolate company from Ecuador with very high standards in social and environmental responsibility. They also makes the worlds best chocolate!

Impact-domino-effect, you ask?

Read all about it on our latest blog! https://waka-waka.com/blog/wakawaka-pacari-create-domino-impact/

Driving change through business!! Do Good and DO no harm.

WakaWaka on Twitter “ last night at the gathering in https://t.co/4Fzfwr1PUk”

How are WakaWakas used in other parts of the world?
Meet Naw Bler Moo (84), an elderly woman who lives in Loikaw, the capital of the Kayah State in Myanmar. She received a WakaWaka Light from Help 4 Forgotten Allies (H4FA), an organization that supports 2nd World War veterans and refugees or their widows in Myanmar.
Next to Loikaw, H4FA distributed WakaWaka Lights in the Mae La refugee camp on the Thai Burma border and in Yangon (formerly Rangoon), in the remote Chin hills. Some of the households in these areas have only one light in one room, and some households have no electricity at all so the WakaWaka Lights are extremely useful.

How are our WakaWakas used in other parts of the world?
When Annet moved in 2013 to Kenya for seven months, her friends gave her a couple of WakaWakas to take. The WakaWakas were of great use because in the village where she lived, the power shut down around three times a week. Soon, her local colleagues were interested in a WakaWaka as well. 25 WakaWakas were ordered and that is how in a healthcare centre in Kenya, the first baby was born in WakaWaka light!

Do you also find it hard to avoid plastic, even though you know that you throw it away just shortly after buying it? Today is Earth Day! Earth Day 2018 is dedicated to fundamentally change human attitude and behavior about plastics. Let's be awesome together and make an end to plastic pollution! Sign the petition at: https://www.earthday.org/end-plastic-pollution-petition/.

In just one week a dozen people have invested more than €180.000 in WakaWaka! Our new shareholders support our mission to provide light and electricity to 1.2 billon people worldwide. Being the first European B Corp to go public has also resulted in a lot of media exposure. Thank you all for believing in us! Did you ever consider investing in a greater goal? WakaWaka ensures that the growth of the company also translates to growth in impact. Read more about the opportunities: https://waka-waka.com/mission/npex-wakawaka-global/

Wow, what a first day! back in 2012, when we did our first equity based crowdfunding campaign on , WakaWaka raised €75.000 in two months. Yesterday we exceeded this number in the first 24 hours of our campaign. People are investing in WakaWaka because they believe in a tremendous but also believe in a healthy . Today WakaWakas providing a sustainable, safe source of light for well over 1.3 million people who used to be dependent on dangerous, toxic kerosene lamps and candles. You can join our mission and help boost our growth. Go to www.npex.nl/wakawaka today and become a shareholder in our adventure, our mission to impact more then a billion lives.

BREAKING NEWS: WakaWaka goes public today! Be the change you wish to see in the world. WakaWaka is the first European B Corporation, to go public.
WakaWaka is growing and expanding our impact generating projects. Invest in our mission and help provide fair light and power to the 1.2 billion people around the world living without access to light & energy. Not only does this generate a tremendous social return on your investment, but a healthy financial one as well. Find out more at: www.npex.nl/wakawaka

Come meet us today at the Kigali Butchery and Question Coffee where we will be sharing the sun with you! ☀️

Celebrating one year Birdlife International in Rwanda and the opening of the new office in Kigali. Delivery of 50 WakaWaka's for their stakeholders.

Introducing Joelle!

After one year at WakaWaka it is time for me to handover the management of this social enterprise to Joelle Nzambimana as the new Managing Director of WakaWaka Rwanda. Joelle is highly passionate and wants to light our world with the WakaWaka solar products and "share the sun" with rural Rwanda; to the families living far from the electrical grid, to refugees in camps and displaced people in need. Together with her highly dedicated team she is eager to make the leap and improve peoples lives and well being.

Wishing Joelle all the best and lots of luck in a beautiful country. If you want to meet her in person, just visit WakaWaka Rwanda office in Kigali, Kimihurura. Or catch up with her by email: [email protected]

Paul Snijders