Soma Bags makes backpacks equipped with solar panels that power a light, enabling children in rural Tanzania to read even ...

Adding rows of upright panels on farmland generates green power in the morning and evening while acting as a windbreak for ...

But for all his hard work, there was a problem: children would borrow books from him and then return ... James’ solution – flexible solar panels sewn onto the outside of bags to power a ...

Born in the Mwanza region of northern Tanzania, James remembers studying for school by the light of a kerosene lantern.