Rachel Joke Olakanye has run a tailoring business in Ibadan, Nigeria, for over 20 years. Nearly a decade ago, she began selling solar products through Solar Sister. Today, she’s still going strong. She supported her children through school. She continues to grow her business and expand her success in the community by training young women apprentices. Her progress has been built over time through hard work.
That’s what being a Power Partner is all about.
What It Means to Be a Power Partner
Power Partners are people who keep showing up. Maybe that means monthly giving, or maybe it’s just giving when you can. What matters most is consistency. When support is steady, women entrepreneurs have what they need to move forward, grow their businesses, serve their communities, and plan for the future.
Why Consistency Matters
When you give consistently, you offer the steady support women like Rachel need to grow. That steady support gives women the time and space to build something lasting.
What That Support Makes Possible
With that steady backing, women entrepreneurs bring clean energy to the homes that need it most.
- Children have light to study at night.
- Families move away from kerosene and harmful fuels.
- Homes become safer and healthier.
- Women build income and independence.
We’ve seen women grow stronger and communities transform.
When You Give, You’re Part of It
Being a Power Partner means joining in that steady progress. You’re helping create opportunities that last and lift everyone up. We know that when women thrive, everyone rises.
Choose to give monthly or over time; every act of consistency counts. Become a Power Partner now and help women build brighter futures. Take the next step and join us.
When a friend told her about Solar Sister late last year (2016), she decided to check it out. She now sells solar products from her tailoring shop and also walks around neighboring communities to market her wares.
She has used the extra income from her solar business, plus the savings from no longer buying kerosene, to pay her daughter’s school fees, who is in teaching college in Lagos. She also used some profits to pay for a remembrance service for her father, who died. Now Rachel is saving her solar profits to make repairs on her house.
