Lufa local helping to light up community

By ZINA KOIM
BRYAN Nagemona from Lufa, Eastern Highlands, started making solar boards to help his village have access to electricity.
Nagemona told The National that night activities, usually held by church groups, would use torches or fire light to continue their programmes into the night.
“My village is located in a very remote area and when I saw the challenges and struggles my people were facing without electricity, I had to do something to help them,” he said.
Nagemona said when he was teaching in Henganofi district, he attended a solar project training run by the Seventh day Adventist Church where he learned to build solar boards.
“After the training, I went back home and did a lot of research, downloaded information from Google, saw pictures of sola boards and that gave me more knowledge on how to make a solar board.
“I started to make solar boards and sell them but for all my people in Lufa, I only tell them to buy the solar boards and I do the wiring and everything else for free,” he said.
Nagemona said he built a solar board worth K18,000 for his church in his village for free.
“The church now uses a projector, there is light in the church and at the pastor’s house as well.”
He said people would come from as far as Jiwaka to buy his solar boards.