Christine Eibs Singer was honored as an Ashoka ChangemakeHER, Changemakers's inaugural celebration of the world's most influentual and inspiring women. Find her fellow honorees' voices here.
by Christine Eibs Singer, CEO and co-founder of E+Co. Singer has overseen the organization's growth from a start-up to an international leader in the developing country energy finance space. She is instrumental in maintaining E+Co’s mission to empower local small and growing enterprises that supply clean and affordable energy in developing countries, producing social, environmental, and financial returns.
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“I am an entrepreneur at heart, I knew that one day I would launch a solar PV business.” -Yvonne Faye
Women and children are most affected by the lack of access to basic energy resources in developing countries. They experience a heightened risk of developing respiratory diseases from firewood stoves with “black soot” emissions, suffer burns from kerosene, and have less time for economic or education opportunities as they labor hours a day in the pursuit of firewood and water. However, with their firsthand knowledge of the negative repercussions of a lack of energy resources, they may be the best answer to effective implementation of energy solutions for “Base of the Pyramid” communities, and the most likely to focus on a solution that is affordable, available, and appropriate.
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