Café Lumière: a solar-powered multi-service platform for isolated rural areas in Madagascar

Allows the electrification of small rural communities to foster economic growth, cover domestic needs but also improve the quality of community-level services.

The Café Lumière model

The Café Lumière is composed of 4 elements as modelled in the image below.

ABOUT Electriciens sans frontières

Electriciens sans frontières, French international NGO and registered charity, has been fighting against inequalities of access to electricity and water throughout the world since 1986. With the support of 1300 volunteers and through partnerships with local actors and using renewable energies, they make access to electricity a lever for human and economic development.

Read more about the Café Lumière project here and about Electriciens sans frontières here.