SolarBuddy – Illuminating Futures
SolarBuddy – Illuminating Futures
SolarBuddy is an impact organisation uniting a global community to illuminate the futures of all children.
We strive to provide opportunities for all children and believe that for future generations to thrive, we must create a world where no-one is left behind.
One of the biggest obstacles we face is extreme energy poverty; one of the worst forms of poverty that hardly anyone knows about. It is a complex challenge, impacting the health and wellbeing, educational outcomes, and economic stability of the communities experiencing it as well as our environment.
Illuminating the futures of all children is as hard as it sounds. But we are motivated by big challenges, and the impact we can make by working towards achieving our two goals:
Educate and inspire millions of people
to be agents of change to end extreme energy poverty and its unjust cycle of effects.
Sustainable innovation shapes our solutions. We design with people as our focus, ensuring that everything we create is simple, socially impactful, environmentally sustainable and makes a difference for a decade not a day. Our physical solutions provide a tangible solution to the problem of extreme energy poverty.
Education is core to the solution. It helps to build local awareness and understanding of extreme energy poverty, creates better global citizens, and is the most important factor in creating equitable opportunities for a child. Through our immersive STEM school programs and informative corporate event programs, we’ve built engaging ways to educate students about the impacts of energy poverty.
Connected communities are joined at the heart and united by need. When we share ownership of the problem, we lighten the load. The more hearts who join us, through donations, support and advocacy, the more positive outcomes we can create.
Today, SolarBuddy runs multiple immersive STEM education programs and corporate events across the world, designed to education people on the devastating impacts of energy poverty. We continue to innovate, and have some exciting new solutions in the pipeline, all designed to lift families out of energy poverty.
The gift of a solar device helps lift children out of poverty, through the sustainable, cyclical, and long-lasting impact that affects not just one child, but their families, communities and generations to come.
2024 Carbon Neutral Organisation. SolarBuddy is carbon neutral certified by NetNada.
Moral Fair Ground Ethical Enterprise Award
2020 supporter & participant of the United Nations Global Compact.
2020 Finalist by Moral Fair Ground for most inspirational and ethical enterprise in Australia.
2021 Energy Globe Award. SolarBuddy wins Energy Globe Award – the world award for sustainability.
1 Million Donor – Workplace Giving Excellence Award.
2019 Finalist for most innovative charity / employer partnership with Flight Centra Travel Group.
2019 Finalist. Banksia Foundation Sustainability Award.
2015 Product Winner. For Simon Doble’s design of ‘Tent Pole Power!’. An all-in-one tent pole with USB device charge points, LED lights, and rechargeable batteries all encased inside a stainless steel telescopic pole.
Simon is an inventor and social impact entrepreneur who specialises in creating innovative solar solutions for people living in energy poverty. A humanitarian at heart he is determined to create socially aware businesses that will have a lasting positive impact on both people and the planet.
Greg has over 20 years of experience in the supply chain industry managing operations in Europe, Asia and Australia. Accompanying Greg’s wealth of experience is a desire to work with an organisation that values purpose over profit.
Jo is passionate about unlocking potential and believes providing opportunity is the ultimate gift. With a focus on creating pathways, Joanna thrives on empowering us each to fulfil our part in securing a kinder, more compassionate and sustainable world.
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