Dodoma region is home to the Wagogo people who are mostly pastoralists and farmers. People here are largely subsistence farmers of maize, peanuts, sunflowers.
Gladys Ndalo is 56 years old, a farmer, mother of seven children, and 6 grandchildren. Her husband died in 2013.
I decided to sign up because I heard Solar Sister come talk about solar and show us the products. I had heard about solar before, but had never seen it myself.
Gladys was thrilled the day she no longer had to use a kerosene lamp for light and started using solar lighting. Kerosene lamps, used by many families in sub-Saharan Africa, emit dangerous air pollutants like black carbon, carbon monoxide, and carbon dioxide which lodges in the lungs and can cause severe respiratory disease. With seven children and six grandchildren, Gladys’s life is full. As a Solar Sister
Entrepreneur Gladys travels the rural red dirt roads in the “last-mile” community of Zoissa where she lives in Tanzania.
An extra perk of the work is sharing it with her daughter Shida, also a Solar Sister Entrepreneur. Gladys’s smile says it all!
Gladys started with Solar Sister in April 2016. See her story in pictures below.
Gladys' story
My customers are majority women, but mixed with a few men in there too.