
Pay-As-You-Go Solar Is Quietly Changing Lives Across Africa and the Caribbean
In Kenya, a smallholder farmer pays for her solar panel the same way she buys airtime — a few dollars at a time, straight from her mobile phone.
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Perspectives on energy access, humanitarian leadership, and global advocacy from Lady B Bless.

In Kenya, a smallholder farmer pays for her solar panel the same way she buys airtime — a few dollars at a time, straight from her mobile phone.
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If you’ve ever Googled ‘how to legally structure your business’ and ended up deep in an article about LLCs, S-corps, and Delaware incorporation — welcome to the
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I have reviewed more business plans than I can count. I have sat across from entrepreneurs in Port of Spain, Bridgetown, Accra, and Nairobi who had brilliant id
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The headlines say Africa is making progress on electricity access. The IEA publishes rising connection rates. The World Bank points to percentage improvements.
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You’re in the middle of a meeting. Someone pushes back on your idea, hard. Your heart rate spikes. Most of us have been there — and how you handle that moment i
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You’re feeding families, fighting for policy change, building wells in underserved communities — and your last Instagram post got 11 likes. Six of them were fro
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In November 2023, world leaders made a promise: 300 million people across Africa and the Global South would have access to electricity by 2030.
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When we talk about the global energy crisis, we talk about electricity. Lights, phones, hospitals, schools. That’s the story that gets told. But there’s another
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She had the idea for three years. She took courses, filled notebooks, built a 40-slide pitch deck. She did everything right. And she never launched.
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More than 600 million people across Africa and the Caribbean go to sleep every night without electricity. Not because of a choice — but because the grid never r
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